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  • Fritz and Can all the Live Ones, but he did not dream that a Mug who went around in Goloshes and drank Root Beer could put anything across with the Main Swivel over at the Hall.

    Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

  • Goloshes were useless, and we soon discarded them, and, but for fear of hurting my feet with hidden stones or sticks, I would have discarded my shoes too.

    A Trip to Manitoba Mary FitzGibbon 1883

  • Likewise in "The Goloshes of Fortune" there is a wealth of amusing adventures, all within the reach of a child's comprehension, which more than suffices to fascinate the reader who fails to penetrate beneath the surface.

    Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

  • "Goloshes, Julia!" exclaimed her sister "Goodness me, don't you know what goloshes are?

    Dubliners James Joyce 1911

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