1.   Her bound feet were thrust into embroidered Chinese slippers, but she wore a navy woolen jacket, a skirt, lipstick and stockings.

2.   Hobble skirts and bound feet disappeared for a reason.

3.   She refrains from commenting on the silken pouches worn over bound feet.

4.   The bound feet, he said, were present in the real-life story he heard years ago that inspired the novel.

5.   The child is the first girl in her family to be allowed to grow up without bound feet.

6.   We stand tall on our bound feet until we fall over with exhaustion from the terrible effort to achieve while asking for nothing.

7.   His defenders argue that women with bound feet would have been closeted at home, invisible to a foreign visitor.

8.   Instead, Qing women of high rank often wore platform shoes, simulating the mincing gate of bound feet.