Houston was in agony, dealing with bare feet on the hot sand, and now on the black asphalt.

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The boys who swarmed along the sides of the streets made footprints in the dirt with their bare feet.

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She has a picture of herself limping along the icy roadside with her bare feet stuck in her dyed-to-match ice-blue heels, dizzy and raw and shivering and a further ridiculous humiliation hiccupping.

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They range from grandfathers with traditional flowing sarongs hanging over their bare feet to teenagers clad in polo shirts and trainers, all climbing the 5, 000-odd stone steps that are illuminated by electric lights throughout the night, a glowing white line spiralling up the mountain and marking the way to the top.

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Saul Griffith restlessly taps his bare feet beneath a big table cluttered with books and models of wings and inflatable helmets.

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Scooping the sand with their bare hands and Frisbees, they created an underground passage about 10 feet wide and 7 feet deep.

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Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

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No bare feet -- It should go without saying that being cooped up on an airplane with others mere inches from you is painful enough with everyone clothed.

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