The women shared one side of the lean-to, grateful for the dry blankets; the men, tired from their heavy loads, crept in noiselessly in their sock feet beside them and were soon asleep.
When the others had gone he came down softly in his sock feet from his room and drew up a chair to the stove in the stagnant and deserted bar-room.
The Cheyenne airport had been given a thorough cleaning and everything from fences and lights around the border to the windsock on the beacon tower had been touched up.
He felt victorious, but somewhere in the back of his mind was the horrible sensation that someone was about to come up behind him and hit him on the head with a wet sock full of old sand.
If there was no one to ask, he thought, and if there were no books-- He stopped with a sock in his hand, and stared at it in wonder.
Hamilton turned to the negro, who, upon the captain's departure, had taken the brass knuckles from his sock and was examining them carefully.
Now and then, though, his hand touched the pair of brass knuckles which he had transferred from his sock to his right-hand pocket.
The spirit of Christmas pervaded everything, and even the invalid playfully asked Alsie if she could give him a hint as to what he might find in his sock on the eventful morning.
In the sole, between the sock and the outer shoe, is placed a layer of straw or of bladder-sedge.
These consist of two layers, an interior sock of skin with the fur turned inwards, and an exterior shoe of hairless, water-tight hide.
In sock or buskin there was an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer.
And the old lady nodded her head violently over the sock she was knitting,--the making of socks for her beloved son was her principal occupation and amusement.
Here am I in shirt and trousers with only one sock on, and you dare to say you have had an adventure!
I shall be able to amuse myself with--(He is feeling in his sock while talking, and now brings out the watch and chain.
The stocking and sock are tied on to the door-knocker.
She points to the stocking and sock hanging up) We can come back for 'em as soon as 'e's gone.
The toe and front part of the sole of his boot was all ripped up and torn, and his sock was dripping with blood.
Mr. Reginald Butterwick looked still more earnestly at thesock and said: "One of those tall lanky chaps--eh?
Mr. Reginald Butterwick took two or three nervous steps to the right, looking askance at the sock as he moved.
She took up again the gigantic sock she was mending; and she kept looking up from it to observe with an easy eye the pride of the Polytechnic as he walked round the studio examining the draperies, the pictures, and the drawings on the wall.
At last he paused in his wanderings before the industrious Pollyooly, and his eyes fell on the gigantic sock she was darning.
But instead of that she had returned to her room the moment dinner was over, and Eunice, who went to hunt for a missing sock of Richard's, reported that she was lying on the lounge with a story book in her hand.
The Englishman put his diamond pin in the Irishman's sock; the Irishman put his watch in the sock of the Englishman; they slipped an egg into the sock of the Jew.
Little Miss Phyllis put down thesock she had been knitting.
Little Miss Phyllis took up her sock again, but a smile still played about the corners of her mouth.
Of a sudden out of the pink haze came a galloping figure, slightly humped, in the inspector's coat and wideawake, with a bare foot through one stirrup and only a sock on its fellow.
Be off, and get a breath of the sea-air," but on condition that the sock went with him as his purse.
That as a rule, he gossipped and shared his tobacco with sailors and fishermen, and brought out thesock much oftener than was prudent for the benefit of the ragged boys who haunt the quay.
He trod the deck with a strange springiness, and when he scanned the bubbling broil of the wake astern, he could not restrain a joyous chuckle and an encouraging word to the man at the wheel, "Sock it to her, Billy old son!
After pulling up his immaculately creased pants and revealing a fancy colored sockabove sharp-toed shoes, he leaned towards the girl in a cool, self-possessed manner.
To these suggestions the mate gave but one answer, "Sock it to her an' drive her around!
At this moment Helen came out, and the two children scampered down stairs, and sitting down side by side on the sofa, they proceeded to examine this second instalment of the Sock stories.
He was distinguished, whether wearing the sockor the buskin, majestic in loftily-toned kings, and absurd in sillily-amorous knights.
The record of that career affords many a lesson and valuable suggestion to young actors, but I have to say a word previously of the Bettertons, before the brothers of that name, Thomas and the less known William, assumed the sock and buskin.
The sock has a separate division for the great toe, the sandal being held upon the foot by a cord which runs between the first and second toes and, dividing, fastens on each side of the sandal.
Among the well-to-do the foot is encased in a short sock made of white cotton cloth, which is kept scrupulously clean.
It's your show, but if I were fishing for something, it would be a way to sock those guys.
Then the little captive would touch the baby's sock fastened by a cord of deer-sinews about her waist and next to her flesh.
With these last words Swift Fawn lifted the littlesock and was about to hurl it into the water, when she suddenly stopped as she remembered White Mink's last words.
And at the same time Timid Hare remembered the little sock which she always carried in her bosom.
All at once she remembered the baby's sock hidden in her dress, and of White Mink's words.
She awoke next morning with her hand clutching the place where the sock lay hidden, and saw a kind face bending over her.
When I get any papers that are extra precious, I always stick 'em down the leg of these high old boots, between the sock and the leather.
I always put 'em down my bootleg, between the sock and the leather.
So he crept up close to the chimney place, And measured a sock with a sober face; Just then a wee little note fell out And fluttered low, like a bird, about.
She knitted another round of her sock and then said: "Have you seen Tom Craigie yet?
