But when the child is lost, these thousand images of joy, of charms, of tenderness, which throng around the little
shoe, become so many horrible things.
The roads were stony, having been recently mended; going over them at this pace, my
shoe became looser, and as we neared the turnpike gate it came off.
He showed no surprise at seeing another figure, but the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it (his lips and his nails were of the same pale lead- colour), and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the
shoe. The look and the action had occupied but an instant.
McGREGOR hung up the little jacket and the
shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.
The Manufacturer, seeing that he could get no labour for a long time and finding the times pretty hard anyhow, burned down his
shoe factory for the insurance, and when the strikers wanted to resume work there was no work to resume.
Seeing the dog growing into his master's affection, Kwaque himself developed a genuine affection for Michael--much in the same way that he worshipped anything of the steward's, whether the
shoes he polished for him, the clothes he brushed and cleaned for him, or the six bottles of beer he put into the ice-chest each day for him.
'Here, clean these
shoes for number seventeen directly, and take 'em to private sitting-room, number five, first floor.'
These
shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below."
The feet of the dead Witch had disappeared entirely, and nothing was left but the silver
shoes.
The young man did not want to give up his
shoes, and even offered to fight for them, till he felt the horseshoer's strength in Ernest's hands.
But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their
shoes were full of holes.
I am not to see, forsooth, that no man does me an injury, or breaks into my home--I am not to take care that all shall go well with me, or that I have clothes to wear, or that my
shoes do not require mending, or that I be given work to do, or that I possess sufficient meat and drink?