half-soled

I take care to buy clothes and equipment here in the town, and, having got a good new pair of shoes, I take my old ones to the cobbler to be half-soled.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

He mended shoes, you know, half-soled shoes, we called ...

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

All I ever got was a dollar to have my shoes half-soled; that's the only thing I ever got — I never asked for anything.

Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

And with them Mr. Wrenn's soul swept along, while his half-soled Cum-Fee-Best $3.80 shoes were ambling past warehouses.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

Because his clients were luxurious and extravagant, he took a revengeful pleasure in having his shoes half-soled a second time, and in getting the last wear out of a broken collar.

The song of the lark 1915

And with them Mr. Wrenn's soul swept along, while his half-soled Cum-Fee-Best $3.80 shoes were ambling past warehouses.

Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

So she learned of Oscar Marchant, coughing all day over the shoes he half-soled and going out at night to give his waning life to the service of those who needed him.

The Vision Splendid William MacLeod Raine 1912

Balancing myself on the marge or verge of the billiard table -- for the tiled surface of the floor had imparted a sense of chill to my half-soled feet and already I was beginning to repress incipient sneezes -- I called aloud, and yet again I called.

Fibble, D.D. Tony Sarg 1910

Not only were they all half-soled with it but the merry wags had decorated the ladies 'bare backs and the men's coated backs, until all looked like sandwich men or peripatetic ragpickers.

Ptomaine Street Carolyn Wells 1902

There was even a piece of patch which had been put on it, though it had never been half-soled.

The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899