She was just out of her bed and her feet were bare.They say it shows she had a very small foot with a high arch, the print of the heel, a space where the instep arches over, and then the ball of the foot and the tiny toes.…Cited from Molly Brown's Orchard Home, by Nell Speed
It was a clear case, and all he asked for was bare justice.Cited from Sisters, by Ada Cambridge
The rabbit climbed up on a mountain and saw the deer already far off.He wanted to follow him, but he could not, because his feet were bare.The deer never returned the hoofs to the rabbit, and hoofless the rabbit has remained to this day.…Cited from Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2), by Carl Lumholtz
On the floor a broad sheet, of spotless whiteness, was spread, and beside it a narrow mattress of striped seersucker, very clean and cool, and with a double cushion at the head to support the elbow; on this my host invited me to recline.Here then were table and chair, but as yet the board was bare.Presently little Karlee reappeared, bringing a great round hand-punka, formed of a single huge palm-leaf, and, standing behind my shoulder, began to fan me solemnly.…Cited from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 18, No. 110, December, 1866, by Various
His eyes were keen, and through long years of habit at home, going about at night without light, he could see distinctly where ordinary sight would meet only a blank wall.The flat ground immediately before him was bare of living or moving objects.That was his duty as sentinel here -- to make sure of no surprise patrol from the enemy lines.…Cited from The Desert of Wheat, by Zane Grey
I never beheld a woman of so commanding a presence.Her feet were bare, but very small, as well as her hands.On her fingers she wore many rings, of a curious old setting, and a piece of gold hung on her forehead, where the hair was parted.…Cited from Japhet, In Search Of A Father, by Frederick Marryat
A multitude had collected to witness the feat; the day was unusually cold, and Sam was intoxicated.The river was low, and the falls near him on either side were bare.…Cited from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 562
There was something more important than venison for him to think of, however.He had taken off his hat, and his white head was bare.With the strong light of the camp-fire shining upon his weather-beaten face he would have made a good subject for a painter.…Cited from The Talking Leaves, by William O. Stoddard
They dared not run for fear of terrifying him if it should be the laird, and hurried quietly to the spot.But when they reached the end of the bridge its round back was bare from end to end.On the other side of the river the trees came close up, and pursuit was hopeless in the gathering darkness.…Cited from Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XV., No. 85., by Various
Suddenly Lily got up and walked the length of the room.When she came back her eyes were filled with tears, and her left hand was bare.…Cited from A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
We all expected to get Camu in the studio and go as far as he wanted to go with the record.The songs are bare, but then again a lot of them are just what he wanted.A lot of them wouldn't have changed much.…
Or perhaps he slept with it, as little ones do with dolls and whip-tops.I could see that the room beyond the window was bare.…Cited from The Literary World Seventh Reader, by Various
This rear axle came with tapered rather than straight roller bearings and a cone-clutch rather than disc-clutch limited slip unit.These units came painted black from the factory while most others were bare metal.…
They are bare because I didn't know just what should be put on them.Cited from The Harvester, by Gene Stratton Porter
In a letter, dated the 8th June, 1429, written by the young Count of Laval, who met Joan of Arc in Selles in Berri, the place of rendezvous for the expedition, is a pleasant notice of the impression the heroine caused him.He describes her as being completely armed, except that her head was bare.…Cited from Joan of Arc, by Ronald Sutherland Gower
His eyebrows, thick and fierce with gray in them, went up as he saw Miellyn; but he backed away to let us enter, and shut the door behind us.The room was bare and didn't look as if it had been lived in much.The floor was stone, rough-laid, a single fur rug laid before a brazier.…Cited from The Door Through Space, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Her golden head was bare; also by a head she sailed above them.They followed her by the Via Zitelle, over the Ponte della Morte, further yet, between garden walls topped with lilac, into the Prato della Valle.…Cited from Little Novels of Italy, by Maurice Henry Hewlett
She distinctly heard herself laugh as she ran out of the room and out of the house.Her head was bare, but she did not think of that.She had on her coat which she had worn because of the coldness of the house.…Cited from The Debtor, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
He felt her hair, and said it was grown long and silky, and he said they would go back to Denmark now.He asked her why her feet were bare, and what the marks on her back were.Then he put her head on his shoulder, and picked her up, and carried her away, away!…Cited from Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner
And in this her sex has the advantage over ours.Our hearts are bare to their eyes, even though they can never know what have been our lives.But we may see every action of their lives, guarded and circumscribed in conventional forms, while their hearts will have many mysteries to which we can never have the key.…Cited from What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 8
