They were the only clothes of a little lad who, hatless and shoeless and shirtless, was lying on the ground—to be trampled on by horses or men, it seemed to matter little to him.
With William's wife at her heels, she mounted the stair, theirshoeless feet making no sound.
That famous march of two hundred miles, from the south side of the Catawba to the north side of the Dan, in which the whole State of North Carolina was crossed by the ragged and largely shoeless army, was the salvation of the Southern States.
Little did the soldiers heed their tattered garments, their shoeless feet, their lack of blankets and of regular food, in their pride at having outwitted the British army and fulfilled their duty to their country.
After that the hurrying retreat of many feet, the click of sabots on the uneven pavement and patter of shoeless feet, and then silence.
Even baby children manipulate the birch bark, and one may pass a cluster of such small fry by the roadside, shoeless and stockingless, all busily plaiting baskets with their nimble little fingers.
Such obeisance from man to man was wonderful, and the overpowering delight in the faces of the pilgrims was striking, as they accomplished the deeds of reverence they had come so many hundreds of miles shoeless to perform.
It was a lovely evening, and we munched wild strawberries by the way, which we bought for twopence in a birch-bark basket from a shoeless little urchin on the road.
The two men eyed me quietly, then Hexford pointed to my shoeless feet and sternly retorted: "Permit us to doubt your last assertion.
Their faces, as they wheeled sharply about and took in my shoeless and more or less dishevelled figure, told me with an eloquence which made my heart sink, the unfortunate impression which my presence made upon them.
Winchester was made the rendezvous for all the sick, lame, shoeless and others who remained as we passed Leesburg.
At Leesburg an order came for all sick and shoeless men to remain there: an unfortunate order, in some respects, as it was construed by a great many of the men to mean just anyone who did not want to go over the river into Maryland.
A sharp stone had cut her poor little shoeless foot, and she was limping painfully.
On through the leafless country marched the somewhat tattered, somewhat shoeless Army of Tennessee.
Others, weak, ill, frozen, shoeless did their piteous best to keep up with the “boys.
There indeed mayst thou be happy, Good it is for thee to dwell there, Wandering shoeless in the summer, Wandering sockless in the autumn, 470 Through the wide expanse of marshland, And across the wide morasses.
Here are shoeless women, who quiet their children with ardent spirits, and brutal men, who would kill both wives and children if they dared.
Two shoeless Irish girls were my other companions, and one of them, hearing that I was from England, inquired if I were acquainted with "one Mike Donovan, of Skibbereen!
New-comers passed by them hurriedly and stood shoeless in the queue outside Aunt Emily's room eagerly awaiting their turn.
Happily for his shoeless feet, the way lay all over grass-lands and mossy paths; but he limped so that the keeper swore at him many times, and the little Earl felt the desperate resignation of the martyr.
This dull rattle of shoelessfeet is the first sound in the morning in these Yezo villages.
One day a most woe-begone, tattered and emaciated "Johnnie" sat swinging his shoeless feet from a barrel, awaiting his turn.
Suddenly Blanchet's four legs, as he flew over the ground, became motionless and rigid as stakes, and his shoeless feet began to slide over an absolutely smooth surface of clay, hard as iron and as slippery as if it had been soaped.
It was difficult for Robinette to get along with her shoeless foot; Lavendar wanted to help her, but she demanded Carnaby's arm.
Robinette, as she tucked her shoeless foot beneath her mud-stained skirt and made herself as comfortable as possible.
She spread out her hands in dismay, and looked down at her draggled mud-stained skirt, her little feet, one shoeless and both covered with mud and slime.
Her mother she heard theshoeless feet, Said "she's comin', I believe.
There are few hours of day or night in which the tremulous thud of shoeless horses galloping on grass is not heard in Waimea.
Existence was a luxury, and reckless riding a mere outcome of the animal spirits of horses and riders, and the thud of the shoeless feet as the horses galloped over the soft grass was sweeter than music.
The shoeless feet, already hurt and bleeding, get wearily over the rough, hard ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoeless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
