His garments hung in tatters; his boots were ripped and soleless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

The soleless shoes of ox-hide or sheepskin, made by the women out of a single piece, are strapped to the instep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference

His clothes were often ragged, and he frequently had to walk twenty miles in a day in shoes that were almost soleless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

The men themselves were hardy and bronzed; from their ragged caps to their soleless shoes they bore the stamp of veterans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

Another young girl, in remnants of a pretty silk dress, hatless, her fragile shoes soleless, and her feet bleeding, is quite mad from the horrors of seeing her old father shot and her two younger brothers taken away to go before the advancing enemy as shields against English bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference

Tarisio hesitated before entering, feeling suddenly that his appearance was scarcely in keeping with his wares, his clothes being of the shabbiest description, his boots nearly soleless, and his complexion, naturally inclined to blackness, further darkened by the need of ordinary ablutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

In their stead a pair of almost soleless shoes were thrown him by one who appropriated the boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference

Their feet, clad in soft soleless shoes, made of skins, were long and pointed and of almost uncanny flexibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance Island] Reference

Old Billy's every line, from his dented top hat to his well-nigh soleless boots, expressed dignity and superiority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference

He had seen a good deal of them from his basement window, and had mended shoes for some of them: they were rather a soleless tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04] Reference

He straightens, thrilled from the top of his rather beautiful filthy head to the soleless slippers with which he promenades in rain and frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enormous Room] Reference

Swedish soldiers forced to train in soleless boots (26 Oct 09) The Brazilian subsidiary of the French company held a hastily called news conference in Brasilia to accuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference

He wore a hat that looked as if it had been through several wars, and on his feet were the remnants, the soleless remnants, of a pair of shoes, fastened there by ordinary grocer's twine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salubrities I Have Met] Reference

His hands, bronzed by the tan of sixteen summers, were clasped under his head, and his legs were crossed, one soleless shoe on high vaunting its nakedness in the face of an indifferent world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandy] Reference

The kindly hand which had placed him there had drawn over his face a soiled gray hat; his suit was a worn blue serge, dyed now with dark stains, and his feet were encased in patent-leather shoes, cracked and almost soleless.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Malcolm] Reference

No one would have known Griselda; she looked like a fairy queen, or princess, at least, for even her little white feet had what looked like butterfly shoes upon them, though these, you will understand, were only a sort of make-believe, as, of course, the shoes were soleless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cuckoo Clock] Reference

Pecksniff, with a shrewish daughter, haunts thee, Tom; and when he makes appeals to thee for cash, reminds thee that he built thy fortunes better than his own; and when he spends it, entertains the alehouse company with tales of thine ingratitude and his munificence towards thee once upon a time; and then he shows his elbows worn in holes, and puts his soleless shoes up on a bench, and begs his auditors look there, while thou art comfortably housed and clothed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference

London gossip under the olives, it was an odd picture; it is strange to see the irrepressible English riding hurdles in the Campagna, and talking of ratting in the shadow of the Parthenon, as though within the beloved chimes of Bow; but it was stranger still to see those roughened, grimed men, with soleless boots and pants tattered "as if an imp had worn them," rolling out town-talk and well-known names in such perfectly natural manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference