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sandalled ; not wearingsandals .
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Examples
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“I have a right to the goldfish,” said the stranger, speaking more like King Solomon than an unsandalled Bedouin in a ragged blue cloak.
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Which wound it, as ice wounds unsandalled feet, 15
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“I have a right to the goldfish,” said the stranger, speaking more like King Solomon than an unsandalled Bedouin in a ragged blue cloak.
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The whole troop was lightly equipped, and they walked with their right foot unsandalled, to give them a firmer hold on the muddy ground.
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Where the gods have trodden, let mortals walk unsandalled.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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This is the high place of Chinese devotion, and the thoughtful visitor feels that he ought to tread its courts with unsandalled feet, for no vulgar idolatry has entered here.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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He goes into the _penetralia_ of your life, -- not presumptuously, but with uncovered head, unsandalled feet, and pours libations at the innermost shrine.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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About him his dear hounds are loudly baying, and the nymphs of the wild woods wail him; but Aphrodite with unbound locks through the glades goes wandering -- wretched, with hair unbraided, with feet unsandalled, and the thorns as she passes wound her and pluck the blossom of her sacred blood.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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-- Aka, Mahmoud, Raschid, Selim, they with the bodies of Seti and the faces of Rameses, in their blue yeleks and unsandalled feet -- would go into the desert as their forefathers did for the Shepherd Kings.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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The strong, the broad-shouldered -- Aka, Mahmoud, Raschid, Selim, they with the bodies of Seti and the faces of Rameses, in their blue yeleks and unsandalled feet -- would go into the desert as their forefathers did for the Shepherd
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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