Partly dressed, bootless, unarmed, Driscoll shoved the old man aside, and sped through the church, hopping over half awakened soldiers as he went.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The unknown regions beyond the Mississippi river were handed over to Spain in payment for bootless assistance rendered to France toward the close of the war.
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske