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  • Rubber-tyre soled, rawhide topped guaraches on his bare feet.

    Hitch Hiker « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007

  • The mourners wore jeans and tee shirts and guaraches, the more prosperous ones in beat-up boots, the old women covering their hair decently with small black lace mantillas.

    Santiago's funeral 1999

  • The mourners wore jeans and tee shirts and guaraches, the more prosperous ones in beat-up boots, the old women covering their hair decently with small black lace mantillas.

    Santiago's funeral 1999

  • Their legs are naked, and upon their feet are tied rude sandals (_guaraches_) with leathern thongs.

    The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

  • A poor devil of an Indian _peon_, in coarse woollen _tilma_, tanned sheepskin trousers reaching only to the knee, bare legs below, _guaraches_ upon his feet, and a straw hat upon his head; his long black hail hanging unkempt over his shoulders; his mien humble and looks downcast, like all of his tribe.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • This with a pair of dressed sheepskin breeches and rude sandals -- _guaraches_ -- constitutes the wear of most of the

    The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

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