From the corner of her eye, Whitney glimpsed a pair of expensive brown riding boots polished to a mirror shine.
Mr Goon went off to the police station, his boots well polished by Ern, and his helmet and uniform well brushed.
What will prevent hysteria from inactivity when troops have no boots to polish?
THE fox hunters were out, jodhpurs freshly cleaned, boots polished, riding their plump mounts across the winter-brown fields silvery with frost.
Florenda waited in the corridor and followed her back down to the entry where, as he had promised, Brill waited, knee-length riding boots polished and glimmering.
"Gee-you guys want some boots polished too?"
I was there just past noon, all dressed up in my Jhereg colors, with my boots brightly polished, my cloak freshly cleaned, and a jerkin that fairly glittered.
"I had your good boots polished," Teresa said.
("He keeps his boots polished; my brother and I like him," Robert Kennedy once said of a South Korean military dictator.)
"Gee - you guys want some boots polished too?"