She immediately recognized the child by his shoes.

Perhaps you know him by his shoes?

I looked down--and discovered that the elf was picking me up by my shoes.

A sparrow (my father is thrashing about by his son's shoes as they cross the square, following in tow, not flying away).

He was sure of the queen by her shoes, for as she warmed her feet at the fire, he saw them quite plainly.

A fat blue fish, half a metre long, was thrashing frantically on the sand by her shoes.

Like many sages of her generation, my grandmother took the view that you could "tell a man by his shoes".

As if Church had walked in and out of the gravedirt left by Gage's small shoes.

"They used to say you could tell a lady by her shoes and gloves, and I hope they don't judge me that way," she said.

Following the smell left by men's shoes.