He wore shoes we used to call clodhoppers, great heavy things with squared-off toe caps. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
The word "clodhoppers" was coined to describe early congressmen from the back country of Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
About midnight all the clodhoppers took their departure. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The flesh-toned for women don't fit my size 11 clodhoppers. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, my. - A Dress A Day] Reference
Fact, too good for the half of the clodhoppers about these parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Drone A Play in Three Acts] Reference
Get used to rediscovering the big clay clodhoppers on your Savior. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Bygones] Reference
Even the clodhoppers jeered him; and that confounded friend of his. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
One budget-busting pair of clodhoppers like your grandmother's SASes -- in beige!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
I'm so sorry for all the clodhoppers out there ruining the peace of your down time. From Wordnik.com. [Inappropriate] Reference
They are used in pure superstition, as old clodhoppers spoil Latin by way of an exorcism. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
“I suppose they are clodhoppers, but one of them has already proposed marriage to me,” I said. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Days] Reference
He had on big, black clodhoppers; I had on the soft, little driving shoes I always wear when I fly. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Airway debacle continued | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
The spaceman thought to himself that it was always the dumbest clodhoppers who came up with the prize pumpkins. From Wordnik.com. [Horn : Green]
It was not easy prancing around with someone who seemed almost glued to the floor with work shoes or clodhoppers. From Wordnik.com. [Left to Die] Reference
My feet had always been clumsy, cringing inside my clodhoppers, my legs had always been tardy, flagging beneath my skirts. From Wordnik.com. [Sunk] Reference
Do these clodhoppers in dandy libertarian clothes know what they're doing or is anything allowed in our shiny new Britain?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I am as complete an ignoramus as any of these clodhoppers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference
It took an old African soldier to show those clodhoppers. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Unrest] Reference
"How can we get those clodhoppers out of the wood?" said Furneaux. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
"But this is a new thing, and you know how these clodhoppers are.". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Land] Reference
"I suppose it's well enough -- for the clodhoppers that live here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Range Boss] Reference
I ain't got it, after bein 'on shore among clodhoppers for two years. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
"Not the clodhoppers and roustabouts that come to see us," retorted Mabel. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
You clodhoppers think you can run over a man because you know he can't get away. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
Let's bathe once, at once, and you can bathe again when your Sabine clodhoppers get here. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
They were all clodhoppers up here, he said, and you could only get any proper polish in the South. From Wordnik.com. [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference
Long as he doesn't track those big orange clodhoppers all over her nice clean kicthen floor, I bet. From Wordnik.com. [Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!] Reference
What was he doing there, with his keen face and worldly, confident carriage, amidst those clodhoppers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
"If only my brother knew where I was," he reflected, "he would soon turn the tables on those clodhoppers.". From Wordnik.com. [A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance] Reference
It is to be found in the company of Shakespearean clodhoppers, and Rabelaisian topers, and Cervantian serving-wenches. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
Eversleigh is a consummate actress, though she never acted before a better audience than the clodhoppers at a country fair. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
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