“The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall.”

Source: Dead Souls (1842), Chapter VI

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Russian writer 1809–1852

William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826) British dramatist

Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let none but he these arms displace, Who dares Orlando's fury face", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter lxvi; Ray, Proverbs; Thomas, English Prose Romance, page 85.

“Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
Other works

“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“"You mean he's dead too?" asked Suzy.
"Yes," said Dusk. "This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained."
"Sounds more like he escaped," Suzy said.
"His feet were still in the boots," said Dusk.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 143.

“A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that youwear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if youwearing heavy boots, you need help.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.”

Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 22 (p. 219)

“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“The stars of death stood over us.
And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed
under the crunch of bloodstained boots,
under the wheels of Black Marias.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Stars of death stood
Above us, and innocent Russia
Writhed under bloodstained boots, and
Under the tyres of Black Marias.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Prologue

“There is also, for instance, a direct symbolic strength in the words 'Say it with flowers', which makes that poem one of the cornerstones of Danish lyricism. It has stood out like a boot of an exceptionally fine fit..”

Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist

1940 - 1948, Intimate Banalities' (1941)

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