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Example sentences for "barefoot"

Lexicographically close words:
bare; bareback; barebacked; bared; barefaced; barefoote; barefooted; barege; barehanded; bareheaded
  1. Bennet, and to creep down barefoot to the chapel in the early morning to begin his Misereres.

  2. So we two have vowed to go barefoot there for your healing, my liege, if so be we have your license.

  3. Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

  4. Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin sent out two fine blood-horses, Barefoot and Serab by name, to Massachusetts, something before the time I am talking of.

  5. In a quiet slumber lies, NOT in the shape of unbaked pies Such as barefoot children prize.

  6. Giovanni Battista," because they went barefoot when they carried the cross in their processions.

  7. Illustration of Monogram] After this Andrea returned to the Scalzo, the Barefoot Brothers offering better pay than the Servites.

  8. Take care that the day don't come when you walk barefoot in the streets, and she rides by in a gay carriage of her own.

  9. I'm afraid the barefoot idea would be rather uncomfortable in bad weather.

  10. Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex Chinese toy, Fashioned for a barefoot boy!

  11. I was monarch: pomp and joy Waited on the barefoot boy!

  12. A girl of fourteen driving a yoke of oxen attached to a cart, walking barefoot beside the team and plying the goadstick, while a boy of her own age lay idly at length in the cart, is one of my liveliest recollections of Savoyard ways.

  13. Now no one acquainted with Human Nature will pretend that girls of fourteen to twenty will walk the streets barefoot if the means of buying shoes and stockings by honest labor are fairly within their reach.

  14. In every street of the town you constantly meet girls of fourteen to twenty, as well as old women and children, utterly barefoot and in ragged clothing.

  15. He received notice of his having been chosen, with great regret, and on his induction, on Christmas-eve, walked barefoot to the cathedral.

  16. It was these delights of his childhood that the poet was calling to remembrance when he wrote The Barefoot Boy, which may be found elsewhere in these volumes.

  17. Art thou, perchance, tramping barefoot over the mountains, instead of being seated on a bench like an archduke on the tranquil stream of this pleasant river, from which in a short space we shall come out upon the broad sea?

  18. The deputies and the constable ran after the girl and the priest and quickly caught up with them because they were barefoot and the stones on the ground made it difficult for them to run.

  19. His shoes were in the barefoot style: worn both up and down.

  20. And your sandals look like the kind the barefoot friars wear.

  21. The rosy skies of our barefoot days Lie hidden from view by a misty haze.

  22. Dey couldn't send you out in de cold barefoot neither.

  23. Mausa hear how I talking and turn he back and laugh, den he call to my ma to gone in de house and find shoe to put on my feet and don't let him see me barefoot again in cold weather.

  24. I can't walk barefoot among the heather, my feet are so sore already.

  25. We then started for our return trip and I felt very sorry for those poor barefoot devils who took the opportunity of stopping at a fire rather than go a little further and have the chance of "rigging out" in a good outfit.

  26. It is too cold and wet to drill, therefore, we have nothing to do but rest up, patch our old clothes as best we can, and our barefoot boys resort to the method of tying up their feet in pieces of blankets, making a kind of moccasin.

  27. We barefoot fellows wrapped up our feet the best we could and fell in with the balance.

  28. We hurriedly arrived near the fighting, and, just on the edge of the plain in which the fight was going on, and in a thick woods, all the barefoot men were ordered to fall out and make fires.

  29. Do you see, the girl who went barefoot in the coal-mine must stay in her own class.

  30. I used to shove the coal-wagons, and barefoot into the bargain.

  31. After barefoot walking, dry and rub the feet thoroughly and take a short, brisk walk in shoes and stockings.

  32. Barefoot Walking Walk barefoot in wet grass or on wet stone pavements several times a day, from ten to twenty minutes at a time, or less in case of weakness.

  33. But being barefoot was going to help him take the fence.

  34. Don't shoot," Isaac Mannheim shouted as he saw the unshaven, barefoot man roll next to him, an Uzi giving off bursts of rounds.

  35. Barefoot and with the strokes of the scourge falling heavily on his shoulders, the Count had himself dragged by a halter through the streets of Jerusalem, and courted the doom of martyrdom by his wild outcries of penitence.

  36. A keen thirst for knowledge, a passionate poetry of devotion, gathered thousands round the poorest scholar and welcomed the barefoot friar.

  37. From golden roof and spout Brown waters gurgle and splutter, And rush down the flooded gutter Where the village children shout, As barefoot they splash in and out The water with tireless patter.

  38. I do not know what they would have done to Imam Sharif if he had not comported himself as the others did, so that wretched man had to walk barefoot all round on the sharp stones, and thus we obtained the measurements.

  39. They go barefoot and clothed in evil garments, large and wide, but short to the knees, long sleeves down to the feet like a monk's frock, and their sleeves are hanging about their shoulders.

  40. Four merry wags were at the Blue Boar Inn; a butcher, a beggar, and two barefoot friars.

  41. There was a tinker, two barefoot friars, and a party of six of the King's foresters all clad in Lincoln green, and all of them were quaffing humming ale and singing merry ballads of the good old times.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barefoot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.