Emmett got a little cranky as his boot filled with water, but we yanked our feet out and continued.
The inside holds what appears to be the hoard of an exuberant and undiscerning band of freegans: old wooden chairs affixed to the walls at curious angles, worn leather boots filled with dead flowers, a forty-foot rope salvaged from a Bed-Stuy belfry strung like crêpe paper above the bar.
(Indeed, offered the chance to fight for the Heavyweight Championship of the World, Tyson, Lewis, Foreman or Cooper would have torn a toe off to get it and fought on as their boots filled with blood).
When I walked across a beach in Prince William Sound two years ago, my boot prints filled with a sheen of oil.
In rubber boots, carrying a backpack filled with gear to weigh, measure and swab for fungal infection any frog she finds, Richards-Zawacki slogged a few hundred meters down a narrow gorge of the Rio Farallon, peering at the banks covered in moss and fern, water dripping from springs and waterfalls.
It took us seven hours of writhing and sweating to get to base again; when we finally beat our way out of the grey-green bush our boots were filled with water, our feet were swollen and wrinkly, and we were dripping with slime.
Opening a hall closet filled with boots — pink, silver, red snakeskin — she said, "I just gave away my white ones from Ivana Trump".
Thomas wore hiking boots and had a backpack filled with rain gear, snacks, and sandwiches.
A sleigh filled with hefty boots and wolf-skin wraps ushered in a Dr. Zhivago moment, with diamonds and pearl jewelry sparkling like a sprinkling of snow.
His three goals in two games against the Czech Republic and Poland have not only sent him into first place in the race for the Golden Boot but also highlighted a nature filled with a fiery but (so it seems) essentially innocent passion.
