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  • All his teeth were backed with gold and he would roll his eyes at Miss Kirby in an impish way and say, "Haw haw," sitting in their porch swing with his legs spread apart and his hightopped shoes pointing in opposite directions on the floor.

    AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

  • Who ever hunted ducks from a canoe, dressed in windbreakers and hightopped boots?

    Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946

  • They were a picturesque body of blackguards, in their hightopped boots and silver-tipped sombreros and heavy, gaudy saddles, but the shout that had gone up at their advance was due as much to the fear they inspired as to any great love for them or their chief.

    Soldiers of Fortune 1897

  • They were a picturesque body of blackguards, in their hightopped boots and silver-tipped sombreros and heavy, gaudy saddles, but the shout that had gone up at their advance was due as much to the fear they inspired as to any great love for them or their chief.

    Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding Davis 1890

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