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Example sentences for "barefooted"

Lexicographically close words:
barebacked; bared; barefaced; barefoot; barefoote; barege; barehanded; bareheaded; barelegged; barell
  1. I received a report from one division the other day in which it was stated that over four hundred men were barefooted and over one thousand were without blankets.

  2. In the Rue Saint-Jacques barefooted street-pavers once stopped the wheelbarrow of a shoe-pedler and clubbing together bought fifteen pairs of shoes to send to the Convention "for our soldiers.

  3. With downcast eyes the barefooted and the hungry went gravely past the shop-windows of the jewellers of the Palais Égalité.

  4. The English offered twenty thousand pairs of shoes for our barefooted soldiers.

  5. She went forth from the village, and just as she reached the last houses she met three little ragged and barefooted children trotting along.

  6. He dressed wounds, nursed the sick, spent his days and nights in the ambulances and hospitals, took pity on the barefooted children, kept nothing for himself, but gave all he had to the poor.

  7. He rushed at the barefooted Frenchman and, before the latter had time to draw his sword, knocked him off his feet and hammered him with his fists.

  8. The little barefooted Frenchman in the blue coat went up to the Armenians and, saying something, immediately seized the old man by his legs and the old man at once began pulling off his boots.

  9. A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.

  10. But of course the fact that a barefooted man had been at that window where Toby said he saw a white face gave me lots to think about, even if I did make up my mind not to say anything about my find until I had more to tell.

  11. Dost thou take me for a barefooted friar or a village cura?

  12. He wondered that the barefooted Ichabod experienced no discomfort to all appearance.

  13. Those of their age go barefooted late this season.

  14. He found her with her six children, all thinly clad and barefooted in the bitter cold.

  15. One bright summer morning, not more than fourscore years ago, David Matson, with his young wife and his two healthy, barefooted boys, stood on the bank of the river near their dwelling.

  16. The barefooted child looked at the shoes.

  17. Wretched little barefooted clerk of Penniless Parish, I tell you, eat it all up!

  18. They were barefooted and scantily clad, and each carried a long, clumsy spear and a keen machete, in the use of which he was an expert.

  19. Stevenson had just drafted and paid for his batch, when Barefooted Bob stalked up, bearing an unmistakable scowl on his frank face, and a saddle on his shoulder.

  20. I wish you could talk to some fellows that I know--Barefooted Bob, for instance.

  21. Barefooted Bob's mixed-up in this," remarked Stevenson, handing the matches.

  22. When I saw you coming, it reminded me of one time I got snapped by Barefooted Bob, on Wo-Winya, while M'Gregor owned the station.

  23. They were barefooted and wore anklets which I wanted to buy, but Gaddis did not seem interested, and I could not transact a delicate business like that without careful interpretation.

  24. Well, I was barefooted when I left the house, and wasn't barefooted when I left the spring.

  25. Barefooted and out of sorts, he dragged along through the idle hours.

  26. A barefooted Carmelite and a Minime were the principal qualifiers, who censured Centeno as violently suspected of heresy.

  27. He was prior of a convent of barefooted Carmelites at Seville, which he founded when St. Theresa and her community, of whom he was the director, were attacked by the Inquisition.

  28. He was a small, dark, wiry man, barefooted and barelegged, whose black eyes sparkled, and whose scanty hair and beard hung down over shoulders and breast.

  29. The streets were crowded with fugitives making their way to the depot--pale women with disheveled hair and tear-stained faces leading barefooted children who were crying in vague terror of something they could not understand.

  30. Little barefooted urchins (whose papas and mammas wore wooden shoes and funny white nightcaps) ran after us for French half-pennies, which were larger than English ones, and pleasanter to have and to hold!

  31. For poor serfs, barefooted and in rags, the road is long.

  32. I vow to follow the Crusade barefooted in a sack!

  33. While I reassured her and told her there would be plenty of time, the barefooted boys from outside were slipping into the kitchen and gathering about her.

  34. She promised to be good, and was allowed to stay at home—though every one realized she was as crazy as ever, and she still ran about barefooted through the snow, telling her domestic troubles to her neighbors.

  35. When I pulled up at the windmill, another boy, barefooted and curly-headed, ran out of the barn to tie my team for me.

  36. Some of the younger children went barefooted all winter a number of times.

  37. I often saw their little barefooted tracks in the snow.

  38. There was some danger then, in going barefooted as there were some massassauga all through the woods.

  39. Barefooted women were hurrying to chapel to get pictures blessed, or walking leisurely home with the sanctified treasure under their shawls.

  40. After the bareheaded, barelegged, and barefooted women and children of Mayo and Galway, the smartly-dressed people of Newry come as a surprise.

  41. The quays are peopled by loafers, barefooted gossiping women, and dirty, ragged children playing at marbles.

  42. One of the little barefooted boys who ran after these Protestants is now a holy priest in Tuam.

  43. I noticed that she was almost barefooted and has been for quite a while.

  44. The poor girl to whom they were given was almost barefooted and stayed at home Saturday afternoon when the others went for their walk.

  45. It's the barefooted urchin Necessity with his infernal gad Ambition and his ugly little cur dog Want, always chasing and shouting after one, that makes it so tiresome to cross the stream.

  46. Mark how different it all is when the same cow crosses the same brook driven by the barefooted urchin with a gad and shrill cries and a possible small dog in the background.

  47. And on the other side of the door, standing barefooted on the tiled floor, shivering with cold, was Sabine.

  48. And he has been close to his former flame, the fair barefooted singer.


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