While the housekeeper bombarded her with questions, Penny stripped off overshoes and heavy outer clothing.
By using her overshoes for brakes, she finally brought the boat to a standstill not far from the warehouse.
When she reached the ground floor the Political Economist leaned over the banisters and shouted in a piercing whisper: "I'll leave your overshoes outside my door where you can get them on your way up later.
A plushy brown rabbit lolling across the roadway dragged on one's sweating senses like overshoes in June.
Between them they carried a covered basket containing five mackintoshes, five pairs of overshoes and five umbrellas.
Putting on her overshoes and mackintosh late one afternoon, she slipped out of the house and hastened down the avenue.
A pair of brass-bound pattens hinged in the middle, once worn instead of overshoes by some colonial ancestress, sat alongside a pair of oriental sandals.
He had got his overshoes off before I told him that John was out, and asked him if he wouldn't come into the parlour and hear Mother play the mandoline, but he just made one dive for his overshoes and was gone.
Her mind was capable of appreciating how serious for her would be the loss of her overshoes but not being burned alive.
The girl in Chicago who went back into the Iroquois Theatre fire to rescue her rubber overshoes was not a heroine.
She had waited to leave her overshoes on the porch, her lunch basket in the kitchen, her wraps in the entry.
Now you watch, and you'll see me send it up the chimney when I get my muddy overshoes off and my hands washed.
Usually, coming in the back way, she left her muddy overshoes on the latticed porch, her lunch basket on the kitchen table, her wraps on their particular hook in the entry.
Women who go to balls and parties should always wear overshoes in going to and coming from an entertainment.
When the weather is wet and cold, rubber overshoes should be worn, and these should be removed when entering the house.
She cleaned her boots and overshoes with an old newspaper she found in a drawer, and wet at the washstand.
She could not afford to provide for carfare on stormy days; a rain coat, overshoes and umbrella, more expensive at the outset, were incomparably cheaper in the long run.
While she holds a smashed ballot shoved under the palm of her gray kid glove she may walk over the candidate's prostrate form with impunity and her overshoes if she chooses to.
Then, when the season is over, we will come back into the great maelstrom of life, he to wait for his grandmother's overshoes and I to thrill waiting millions from the rostrum with my "Tale of the Broncho Cow.
He says he dislikes to begin thus early to threaten a President who has barely taken off his overshoes and drawn his mileage, but he thinks it may prevent a recurrence of these unfortunate mistakes.
When he came out he had Judith's cape on his arm and a pair of overshoes in each hand.
He knelt and put on Judith's overshoes with much care, a caressing clasp for each foot before he planted it on the floor.
And when you wore overshoes you got them as inconspicuous as possible.
Bud put on his overshoes and went outside after more wood, so that there would be no delay in starting the fire in the morning and having the cabin warm before the baby woke.
Once there, wraps and overshoeswere removed with gleeful haste.
I can dress before I go and wear high overshoes and my fur coat and cap.
Greg, too, hurried to get on his arctic overshoes and his overcoat.
Dick and Greg were slipping rapidly into coats, caps, overshoes and mittens.
Cowed and defeated, the able conservators of coin, who require a man to be identified before he can draw on his overshoes at sight, had to acknowledge if this thing continued it threatened the destruction of the entire national fabric.
She was late; but she was quite unconcerned and allowed her maid to take off her outdoor garments and overshoes as calmly as if she had come to a dance.
Very soon he was roused from his apparent calm by a newcomer who prodded him in the back as he took off his coat and shoved a pair of rubber overshoesunderneath his chair.
The nearest of all to me was a peasant with a swollen face and a red beard, in a tattered caftan, and patched overshoes on his bare feet.
They sprawled and looked vacuous as they worked in rows in the big study-hall, with its hard blue walls showing the marks of two removed partitions, its old iron fireplace stuffed with rubbers and overshoes and crayon-boxes.
The physician stopped me and was going to take me to the home of the overshoes when he discovered who I was.
Shortly after that I put on myovershoes and a sealskin cap.
I yearn for a land where a man can take off his ulster and overshoes while he delivers a Fourth of July oration, without flying into the face of Providence and dying of pneumonia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overshoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
