The shined shoes, the clear faces, the careful beauty-parlour hairdos, the glittery gowns.

"He comes back often, and when he does, we are very careful to keep all the shined shoes in the pantry until the wake-up calls."

He put the shined shoes back on.

He kept to the shadows, though the breeze blew freshly, and now and then stopped to wipe the chalky dust from his shined shoes with his handkerchief.

I just have a thing about shined shoes.

"It's still early in the process there," he said, pointing to the long walks to pick up everything from greens to shined shoes.

Recruits' appearances are held to strict standards - close-cropped hair for the men, as well as shined shoes and military fatigues.

Don was a Fed from his shined shoes to the loosened necktie at his throat.

Yet, where were the legions of men in shined shoes and clean shirts and schoolboy honest complexions?

He reeked of respectability, from the tips of his shined black shoes to the top of his perfectly trimmed white hair.