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  • To the Occidental the successive manifestations of these seven-leagued strides that have "come up like thunder out of China", have been bewildering, unexplainable, to a degree that makes them seem to border close upon the impossible.

    From the NYT Archives: The Coming China, 1911 2007

  • To the Occidental the successive manifestations of these seven-leagued strides that have "come up like thunder out of China", have been bewildering, unexplainable, to a degree that makes them seem to border close upon the impossible.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • The sunlight had crept down the cliff, it touched the drifted masses at its base and incontinently came striding with seven-leagued boots towards us.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Though they had seven-leagued boots, you remember all sorts of little whipping-snapping Tom Thumbs used to elude and outrun them.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • The inhabitants of the opposite frontier served in her narratives to fill up the parts which ogres and giants with seven-leagued boots occupy in the ordinary nursery tales.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • He plunged through the dripping woodland as if on wings or seven-leagued boots, unmindful of the sloppy ground and the wet branches which flopped back as he passed to sting his face, and he came as straight to Arethusa as it was possible for him to come.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • She has a broom to sweep away the traces of her passage over the snow in her seven-leagued boots.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • Ah! if the good god-mother could only have endowed him with seven-leagued boots!

    High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Anonymous

  • I had now no doubt that I had seven-leagued boots on my feet.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2 Various

  • “You must borrow the seven-leagued boots to get to him.

    III. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

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