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Examples
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Today Doe gave me hard-soled, high-button shoes; they pinched my toes at first because I did not have them on the right feet.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Even the poorest girl somehow managed to buy a shirtwaist and a skirt and a pair of high-button shoes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Today Doe gave me hard-soled, high-button shoes; they pinched my toes at first because I did not have them on the right feet.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Even the poorest girl somehow managed to buy a shirtwaist and a skirt and a pair of high-button shoes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Even the poorest girl somehow managed to buy a shirtwaist and a skirt and a pair of high-button shoes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Today Doe gave me hard-soled, high-button shoes; they pinched my toes at first because I did not have them on the right feet.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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Even the poorest girl somehow managed to buy a shirtwaist and a skirt and a pair of high-button shoes.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Today Doe gave me hard-soled, high-button shoes; they pinched my toes at first because I did not have them on the right feet.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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When she went into the bog, the young woman had been wearing two long black woolen stockings and one high-button shoe, a long skirt and petticoat, along with a shirtwaist and short jacket, in the fashion of the time.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Inside the selkie cottage, he dug through the stones and shells under the cot until he found the high-button shoe.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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