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  • They go barefooted, barearmed, bareheaded and barenecked.

    Tish 1916

  • They go barefooted, barearmed, bareheaded and barenecked.

    Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • The Story Girl was barefooted and barearmed, having rolled the sleeves of her pink gingham up to her shoulders.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • "Everything's fine and dandy," announced the barearmed farrier as he snapped his little pen-knife shut.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • The Story Girl was barefooted and barearmed, having rolled the sleeves of her pink gingham up to her shoulders.

    The Story Girl 1908

  • They were ragged, unkempt, barearmed and bare-legged, every last one of them with back bent.

    The Border Legion Zane Grey 1905

  • Bannon felt it as he stood directing the work, and he kept his hands in his pockets, and wished he had worn his overcoat; but the laborers, barearmed and bareheaded, clad only in overalls or in thin trousers and cotton shirts, were shaking sweat from their eyes, and stealing moments between trips to stand where the keen lake breeze could cool them.

    Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

  • In it, lazily wielding the polished paddle, sat young Mrs. Haltren, bareheaded, barearmed, singing as sweetly as the little cardinal, who paused in sheer surprise at the loveliness of song and singer.

    A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories 1899

  • Now one fine breezy afternoon, when the lads were shouting and playing at this, then their favorite game, Myles himself was at the trap barehanded and barearmed.

    Men of Iron 1891

  • Now one fine breezy afternoon, when the lads were shouting and playing at this, then their favorite game, Myles himself was at the trap barehanded and barearmed.

    Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

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