Crossword-Solution: SOLELESS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The fallen trees, the crushed thicket, the splintered limbs, the rudely torn-up soil, were made hideous by their grotesque juxtaposition with the wrecked fragments of civilization, in empty cans, broken bottles, battered hats, soleless boots, frayed stockings, cast-off rags, and the crowning absurdity of the twisted-wire skeleton of a hooped skirt hanging from a branch.

Only now, as if we had just conceived the idea, we say carelessly “_en voulez-vous?_” He straightens, thrilled from the top of his rather beautiful filthy head to the soleless slippers with which he promenades in rain and frost: “_Merci, Monsieur!_” We cut him a piece.

Another young girl, in remnants of a pretty silk dress, hatless, her fragile shoes soleless, and her feet bleeding, is quite mad from the horrors of seeing her old father shot and her two younger brothers taken away to go before the advancing enemy as shields against English bullets.

They marched hour after hour in steady silence, broken only by the 'Glory! Hallelujah!' chorus of the Canadians, marched with soleless boots, or with no boots at all, but with putties wrapped round the bare feet.

The soleless shoes of ox-hide or sheepskin, made by the women out of a single piece, are strapped to the instep.