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Example sentences for "league boots"

  • But you don't know the story of the seven-league boots, do you, Ayeshi?

  • I wish we'd got the seven-league boots handy.

  • They trotted off along the bank of the river, Arabella slightly in advance, Wickie skirmishing skilfully on either hand, the Dakktar Sahib's voice mingling with the song of the waters as he told the story of the seven-league boots.

  • Hop o' my Thumb knew that the giant would come after them in his seven-league boots.

  • So he took his brothers into the seven-league boots, and set out to the place where their parents were in prison.

  • They had repented their wickedness, and were never unkind and cruel any more; and Hop o' my Thumb kept them all in comfort by going on errands for the king in his seven-league boots.

  • Then Hop o' my Thumb got out of the hole, and pulled off the giant's seven-league boots, and put them on his own feet.

  • How infinitely more poetical are wings like these than seven-league boots!

  • The reader has seen, that she always put on her seven-league boots, when she had a chance of drawing aft the sheets of those immense trysails of hers.

  • The sailors used to say, when we drew aft the sheets of those immense trysails of hers, and got the fore-tack close aboard, that she was putting on her seven-league boots.

  • He threw a jugful of water over his wife's face, and having brought her round ordered her to fetch his seven-league boots, so that he might overtake the children.

  • She was instantly warned of it, however, by a little dwarf who had a pair of seven-league boots, which are boots that enable one to cover seven leagues at a single step.

  • Though it flew like a bird, the prince was quite able to keep pace with it, because he had on the seven-league boots.

  • And that reminds me that you must of course take your seven-league boots.

  • And it strikes me that if we were to put on my seven-league boots we should go much faster.

  • We might get over the country at greater speed than even with my seven-league boots.

  • He believed in fairies and fairy gifts, and understood that his cap was the cap of darkness, and his shoes the seven-league boots, and his purse the purse of Fortunatus!

  • As time pressed, he insisted on my taking his seven-league boots, which you see I have on, in order that I might make haste, and also that you might be sure I was not imposing upon you.

  • But, being informed of everything by a little dwarf who wore seven- league boots, she arrived speedily in a chariot of fire drawn by dragons.

  • As time passed, he wished that I should take his seven-league boots, as you see, in order to make haste, and also that you might not think me an impostor.

  • It was Prince Ricardo flying home on his Seven-league Boots.

  • He was instantly the brave and gallant youth again, seven-league boots, invisible cloak, sword of sharpness and all!

  • I've my seven-league boots, and my invisible cloak, and my sword of sharpness.

  • And hope shall come: a friend more fleet than seven-league boots.

  • Father Time replied: "Jack the Giant Killer, when I have laid my hand upon you again and yet again, you shall possess the true seven-league boots.

  • When he awoke he missed his seven-league boots, and set off for home very angry.

  • As soon as Tom Thumb had put on the ogre's seven-league boots, he took ten steps to the Palace, which was seventy miles off, and asked to see the King.

  • Fetch me my seven-league boots," he cried to his wife.

  • The stranger on foot must have worn seven-league boots, to travel at such a rate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another chapter; black magic; but those; could sleep; currant jelly; deposit their; fine paper; five oceans; great profit; heeled boots; league boots; league broad; league distant; league from; leagues distant; leagues farther; leagues from; leagues long; natural growth; that old; though whether; white patch; whose name; woolen goods; woollen goods; would propose