The truth was, my clothes having been wetted, I had ever since been wearing such thick garments as I met with in the cabin, keeping my legs warm with jackboots, and I had become so used to the garb that I forgot I had it on.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Up them we mount till we reach the gateway with its threatening portcullis, where the soldiers of King Charles the Second, in their jackboots, are walking up and down on guard, determined to keep out all intruders.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin
The dissenting preachers who had taken arms against Popery, and some of whom had probably fought in the great civil war, prayed and preached in red coats and huge jackboots, with swords by their sides.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay