Then a list-slippered teacher went through the corridor. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
She ran silently on slippered feet, searching out Perrin. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Then softly slippered feet shambled out of the darkness, and. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
When the day's labors are over, and he sits in slippered ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
"Jemmy," she said, her slippered foot lifting the counterpane. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
The gai'shain departed on soft slippered feet, barely making a sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Hushiel nodded, but Peninah stamped her small, slippered foot angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
She spun in place on the window seat and set her slippered feet to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Fifty-six, and with list-slippered noiselessness stepped out into the corridor. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
She spun away, but her slippered foot tangled in her skirts and she tilted unsteadily. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
As he did so, Harleston's slippered foot shot out and drove hard into the other's stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
Here the gas flared suddenly into darkness, and slippered feet scurried away from the desk. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
She sank into a big chair opposite me and put her silver-slippered feet on the green cushion. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
She crossed one leg over the other and swung one foot, slippered in green to match her dress. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
"I am not Graendal," Moghedien said, pushing her away roughly with one velvet-slippered foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
He ran down a flight of stairs and heard the soft sound of slippered feet fleeing on flagstones. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
For answer the man moved impatiently, and angrily slapped one of his slippered feet over the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The princess stamped the floor warningly with one slippered foot, and the sentence wasn't finished. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
Lampron who was poking the fire, his slippered feet stretched out toward the hearth, turned his head. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She rubbed one slippered foot against the back of her leg, giving him a glimpse of her shapely ankle. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Madeline came cautiously from her room, her slippered feet making no sound on the softly carpeted floor. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"It wouldn't have been our first," she shot back, nudging her slippered toe against the cold stone floor. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
"The world," say the slippered pantaloon and the mumbling grandame, "was a fine place when we were young.". From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
There was an abrupt silence -- the sound of Suzette's slippered feet -- and the scrap of paper disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He waved a hand to his brother of the looking-glass and slippered away, groaning and sniggering to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And at once all the three little Chinamen mounted the irons and curled their tiny slippered feet under them. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Her slippered foot smoothed lightly over the back of her dog, a collie who was snoozing contentedly beneath the desk. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
Throughout the account, the listener sat sprawled in the big willow rocker, his slippered feet resting on the porch rail. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The superintendent lit a cigar after he had replaced the receiver, and thoughtfully toasted his slippered feet before the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
There was a stir at the door and on her shuffling, slippered feet old Miriam entered, handing some packages to Madame de Coulevain. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
He famously auditioned for Juilliard in socks, since he wasn't sure if he wanted to be a barefoot (modern) or slippered (ballet) dancer. From Wordnik.com. [Dance's 'Naughty Boy' at 80] Reference
So a pair of slippered feet came up to me; and my lady Dela, all tearful, cursed me for useless and kicked me besides, in my sore stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
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