 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...consisted of a thick cork sole, covered above and beneath with leather, and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankio. In later times, sandals became articles of much luxury.... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...consisted of a thick cork sole, covered above and beneath with leather, and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times, sandals became articles of much luxury.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 624 pages
...of a thick cork sole, covered al>ove and beneath with leather, and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times, sandals liecarne articles of much luxury.... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 884 pages
...or of a thick cork sole covered above and beneath with leather and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times sandals became articles of much luxury,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 850 pages
...or of a thick cork sole covered above and beneath with leather and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times sandals became articles of much luxury,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 966 pages
...or of a thick cork sole covered above and beneath with leather and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times sandals became articles of much luxury,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1929 - 1314 pages
...among the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans and which we find to be of the highest antiquity. * * * It left the upper part of the foot bare and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. — Encyclopedia Americana (1925). Sandal, a protection... | |
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It consisted of a thick cork sole, covered above and beneath with leather, and neatly stitched on the edge. It left the upper part of the foot bare, and was fastened on by means of straps, crossed over and wound round the ankle. In later times, sandals... 