"If you could lend me the loan of a strong pair of boots, or, better still, a good saddle horse, it might help the cause a little," replied Roland, laughingly extending both his feet to exhibit his own battered "Wellingtons."
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Why I should have been so far conducted from the habitable portion of the house I had spent my evening in, I leave the learned in such matters to explain; as for me, I have ever remarked it, while asking for a chamber in a large roomy hotel, the singular pride with which you are ushered up grand stair-cases, down passages, through corridors, and up narrow back flights, till the blue sky is seen through the sky-light, to No. 199, "the only spare bed-room in the house," while the silence and desolation of the whole establishment would seem to imply far otherwise-the only evidence of occupation being a pair of dirty Wellingtons at the door of No. 2. "Well, we have arrived at last," said I, drawing a deep sigh, as I threw myself upon a ricketty chair, and surveyed rapidly my meagre-looking apartment.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
They were what were then known as "Wellingtons," and they had legs.
"A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs"
Laurence Hutton