'But I wished to see you in those high patent shoes.'

Clutching his patent shoes, he made for the door.

He held up a pair of shiny black patent shoes.

His patent shoes gleamed but were heavily scratched, the soles so thin a hole might soon be in the making.

Thérèse stared at her black patent shoes, those twin vices crushing her toes, telling her to take her feet away.

The girl sitting next to me, a friend who had lent me her white patent shoes for my first communion the year before, raised her hand, too.

He looked dapper in his neat, black suit and ever-clean patent shoes.

Her companion's coat was flared to reveal the full length of his black trousers and patent shoes.

FYajik was wearing his evening suit pants, patent shoes and a black formal waistcoat over a stiff shirt.

The whole outfit, dinner jacket, shirt, bow tie and patent shoes, had been hired earlier in the day from a shop on George Street.