hobnailed laborers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think they're quivering in their hobnailed boots. From Wordnik.com. [William Klein: OK Rahm, Never Mind!] Reference
I'm already afraid of life with its hobnailed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Jules Supervielle] Reference
And, in fact, for years I wore hobnailed shoes myself. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Crozier could hear the crunch of his hobnailed wooden foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
He made a scrape, and clattered away with his hobnailed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Tell you what-why don't I make you up a recipe for hobnailed liver?. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
"Or," Helene said, "I'll jump up and down on you with hobnailed shoes.". From Wordnik.com. [Knocked for a Loop]
I would have let them jump on my chest with their hobnailed boots first!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
That would be what those guys in the shiny knee-high hobnailed boots do. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Coleman Lawyer: Franken Will Have Bigger Lead After Trial, Then Come Appeals] Reference
Another surprise had jumped on him wearing hobnailed boots on all four feet. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
"Get her to swear to those hobnailed shoes," said he, "and we shall shake them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Feet swayed about me, and some hobnailed miner kicked my ankle and went stumbling. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
The men came running, fireflies sprinkling the bricks under their hobnailed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
Only his hobnailed boots fit, and they were green inside and stank of rot. next ». From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich] Reference
If you will scrutinize the ground you will see the imprint of their hobnailed boots. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
That was why the nickname “hobnailed socks” never annoyed us; quite the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
All around him hobnailed boots slammed against the brick paving of the factory yard. From Wordnik.com. [Death Stalks The Ruins]
There were the bodies of three people -- a woman, a child and a laborer with hobnailed shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
We knew them to be Germans by the clank of the hobnailed boots which all our guards had worn. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
His arms and shoulders and ribs ached as if someone had been kicking him with hobnailed boots. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
Actually, the only reference to hobnailed boots in this discussion was made by Cynical Joe, not me. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Case Of Abousfian Abdelrazik « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
Miss Snark does not actually wear hobnailed boots, but she keeps one on her desk for these emergencies. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Another Winner in the Query Letter Contest] Reference
In advanced cases, the liver develops a hobnailed appearance because of the proliferation of this scar tissue. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
Their hobnailed boots crashed on the planking and the dangling metal fittings of their armor jingled together. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
He has never mellowed, but learned, and tends to come down with his hobnailed boots on other things, with my younger sibs. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Bridging the Bookish and Mr. KJV] Reference
"I have seen the marks of many heavy hobnailed shoes in the dust of this place; and some of the prints were very fresh," came the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
From hobnailed boots to puttees to campaign hats we were little troopers, drowning in yards of khaki and great draughts of military virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Mallory, who was dressed in gabardine and wearing hobnailed boots, was last seen alive. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
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