They are very healthy, well dressed, well shod, that is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP] Reference
No, I said "shod" I meant, people should be properly shod. From Wordnik.com. ["There is a certain artistry to writing a post for a blog, and I had carefully woven in (self-effacing) references to calcified hippies"..."] Reference
Their results showed that "shod" runners tended to strike the ground with their heel first. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Instead of high-tech tools, our agricultural ancestors used a "shod" shovel with an extra-large blade. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS] Reference
Magda looked what my old Gran called Sunday shod, meaning respectable on the surface but don’t take too much on trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
Ridin 'a big horse, he is, shod by a town blacksmith. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Ambiguous, slip-shod language is a detriment to success. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 56: Ephesians The Challoner Revision] Reference
She was wearing tennis shoes and her softly-shod feet made no sound. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Then in the midst of her apprehensions came the sound of shod hoofs. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Only the unconquered move as Persis moved, as though shod with wings. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Still, folks hung around, tapping their well-shod toes in expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Givhan on Tom Ford's beautiful -- if secret -- new line] Reference
But to be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two coats. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
Do a slip-shod job in off-shore wells, and you end up with devasting spills. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: An Equinox Prescription for Love, This Autumn] Reference
Trigger was newly shod, having recently run over a nail ruining his back tire. From Wordnik.com. [The Cowboy of My Heart] Reference
Nagger neighed a blast in reply and pounded the rock with his iron-shod hoofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Dressing the skins of the deer, they keep their husbands well shod and clothed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The Colonel assisted her in alighting; had her boy hunted up, and the horse shod. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Cattle were shod, wagons overhauled, and every preparation for rapid movement made. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Besides it would take them by McKay's blacksmith-shop, where he could get the horse shod. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
We were wrapped up and shod with thick boots; I took his hand and we started off at haphazard. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A group of gentlemen, disguised as sailors, followed them with iron-shod staves in their hands. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
By the time the sun was over the hill the horse was shod, and the rider was in his saddle again. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
Feet that have low heels and large, prominent frogs should be shod with shoes thick at the heels. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Solomon must be shod and offered to take anyone over who felt free to spend the morning in Bennington. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Josiah shoved his brogan over Aunt Caroline's thinly shod foot and she jerked her head up with a start. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
As she spoke she stretched out her foot, shod with a red-heeled slipper, glittering with gold embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
His head seemed to droop beneath a heavier burthen than of yore; he walked as if his feet were shod with lead. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
By and by she swerved from her course, and coming to the grate, put a daintily shod foot upon the bronze fender. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
A few days of rest were necessary to recuperate the animals and also to have them shod and put in condition for moving. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The bottoms of the runners, when the material could be had, were shod with thick hoop iron, the nails being counter-sunk. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
The last few miles, during which they could not see beyond the high ice-shod banks of the estuary, were traversed slowly enough. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Chen is looking not only to shod but to accessorize this new target woman, a species he describes as "a lovely strange creature.". From Wordnik.com. [A Billion Feet] Reference
He is well shod especially in the upper leather, for as for his soles, they are much at reparation, and often faine to be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The horses in Paris, and in the country, are nearly all plain shod, with no heels or toes to act like a pick to break up the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
The foot which, when well shod, M. de Talbrun, through his eyeglass, had so much admired, was still prettier without shoe or stocking. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
About six hundred of the command were in this condition, plainly not suitably shod to withstand the frequent storms of sleet and snow. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
How glorious never again to be shod in the slippers of matrimony -- I seem to demand the advantages of marriage with none of the drawbacks. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
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