YOU don't have to have it happen to you to be concerned about guns," said Beatrice Haskell, a Queens woman who donated a pair of well-worn sensible shoes.

He could tell they were the footprints of a mountaineer, for they were made by heavy, well-worn shoes.

A Hoboken cobbler, Giovanni d'Italia, agreed to let Mr. Petti paint his own well-worn 20-year-old shoes, and was heartbroken when he discovered that his employees had repaired and polished them.

Like a well-worn shoe, instead of one fresh from the shoe-tree that chafes.

She held a shawl, very much the worse for wear, tightly wrapped around her meagre shoulders, and from beneath her rough wollen skirt her small feet appeared clad in well-worn shoes and darned worsted stockings.

To me this looks as authentic as faded denim or well-worn shoes.

The short, sturdy legs, terminating in well-worn black shoes, marched briskly enough, but, watching the man, Mason knew those legs would have marched just as steadily had they been propelling the rugged torso toward the electric chair.

There was nothing else, however, in the wardrobe save a few pairs of tolerably well-worn shoes, and a tweed coat.

The cutoffs, the halter, a few more intimate things, the flannel shirt she'd worn at night, her well-worn shoes on top of the pile.

The driver pulled over, took one look at her ragged apparel and well-worn shoes, and shook his head.