| 单词 | wooden shoe |
| 例句 | To these people just off the train, we all must have looked like escaped mental-asylum patients with our shaved heads and our wooden shoes and oversized blue-and-gray-striped uniforms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I can’t wait to show them my wooden shoes from Holland, my Blarney Stone from Ireland and all the pictures. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I ended up with pants that were too short and a shirt that was too big, but I was lucky to get a pair of wooden shoes that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners had only their thin uniforms and wooden shoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z On the desk we found a wicker basket full of presents from the Genies: wooden shoes, an orange Holland T-shirt, chocolates, and various other goodies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Another soldier gave me a pair of wooden shoes and a blue-and-gray-striped prisoner uniform made out of a thick canvas material. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Less talk about the wise men and the way the children in Holland put out their wooden shoes instead of hanging up their stockings.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Grabbing his can, he started for the door, almost tripping in the awkward wooden shoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break their necks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Your grandpa loved ice cream. He always said no one ever matched his vanilla kumquat recipe, which just goes to show that wooden shoe trees don’t help a bit when it’s time to vote.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The children in this neighborhood run around in thin shirts and wooden shoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Second place receives a pair of genuine unfinished pine Dutch-style wooden shoes; they’re a bit large for the Empress, who wears a women’s size 7. Style Invitational Week 1248: Fess up! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The trumpet player used a fishing pole with a wooden shoe on the end to collect his donations. 20 Years After Honeymoon, a Return Trip to Amsterdam 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Everywhere, everywhere, were jaw-dropping rocks: rocks that looked like wooden shoes, Knights of the Round Table, depressed nymphs, Babar and family. T Magazine: Boulder Dash 2011-11-18T15:30:38Z In the Berluti headquarters near the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, wooden shoe lasts, each penciled with an individual client’s name, prove that this brand is the haute couture of footwear. In men?s wear, Italian is premier but French are the owners 2012-01-13T14:48:20Z On display at the Ethnographic Museum in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina is a lady’s wooden shoe with a sole covered with intricate carvings and rich inlays of mother-of-pearl. The most striking aspect of Europe’s newest nation: Its normalcy 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z What is that woven, wooden shoe you have sitting on your shelf? Nike’s Chief of Design Doodles All Day 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z In these four pictures, kids zipped through the rain forest, tried wooden shoes in the Netherlands, saw camels on the beach and visited a small town in southern Alaska. The Summer of KidsPost is over, but these kids made the most of it 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Today, all that’s left of the shoe industry is a rowboat-sized wooden shoe sculpture hovering like a specter above the roundabout entrance to town. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Growing up on this hilltop surrounded by vineyards, the siblings began work early and wore wooden shoes, saving handmade slippers for Mass. The frothy saga of the Jacuzzi family 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z More touristy features are fun, too — such as an enormous replica windmill, small decorative windmills carved into wooden window shutters and a giant wooden shoe next to an indoor mall canal. A mini, flower-filled getaway to Lynden | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Children can also climb aboard a variety of rides and play structures, including a 1950 Morris vintage car, vintage bikes, seven swing sets, a large horse carriage, a giant wooden shoe, and a Dutch windmill. These 5 kid-friendly PNW destinations make learning fun 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The style couldn’t be more Dutch if it wore wooden shoes and carried tulips. The Dutch taught Gregg Berhalter about soccer. Now his U.S. team aims to beat them 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The last in the line of a family of cobblers, Ms. Ferro makes a kind of wooden shoe typical of the Galicia region called a “zoco,” a business begun by her grandfather in 1915. On Spain’s Camino de Santiago, Even Óscar the Donkey Is a Pilgrim 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Now bikes permeate the culture, making them as Dutch as wooden shoes and tulips. Cities are transforming as electric bike sales skyrocket 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z His childhood home is part the Historical Village, a collection of 22 buildings including the Werkplaats, where wooden shoes are made, and the Delft House, which contains vintage pieces of the famous pottery. On the tourist trail in Iowa 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Looking more like a wooden shoe carrying a recumbent oil derrick, a huge seaplane, a relatively new development in aviation, passed by, two of its four engines roaring as the seaplane taxied into the U.S. Chatham departure of first trans-Atlantic flight recalled 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z They were given a red bowl and spoon, an itchy sack-like uniform, and wooden shoes the prisoners nicknamed “clappers”. 'I will never be free of it': Auschwitz survivor recalls horror 75 years on 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Current projects include the world’s largest wooden shoes, at 2,500 pounds apiece, a novelty yardstick, precise in every detail that is 36 feet long and a 54-foot-tall rocking chair that will actually rock. EXCHANGE: Pencil makes big point in Casey 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z The operation’s logo, which features a Dutch wooden shoe, is meant to represent anti-Nazi resistance in World War II Europe. The Americans are coming! Some in a Texas county fear an Obama-led U.S. military invasion. 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z They wanted to set the record for the largest number of people dancing simultaneously in wooden shoes. Dancing record attempt at Tulip Time festival falls short 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z While the word “clog” may suggest a clunky wooden shoe, the metal-tipped footwear closely resembles dress shoes. EXCHANGE: Competitive clogger stomps to national wins 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z But if your idea of ravioli is frozen pasta that you boil up, then ravioli is to aushak as wooden shoes are to silk stockings. Never mind crabs; in Baltimore, try Afghan food 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z He traveled to the Netherlands for the first time in 1975, and twice after that, to hone his skills and learn from 14 of the best wooden shoe carvers in the country. Wisconsin man passes on art of klompen carving 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z On weekends he would visit his father, who attempted to launch a series of businesses, including a halting effort at making wooden shoes. Amazon's War On Germany's $18 Billion Patriarch 2014-03-05T13:07:00Z They ever consider the wooden shoe wearing tulip sniffing windmill riding Hollanders swimming to Bar Harbor without a sponsor? Once-Strident College Republicans Seek a More Tempered Tone 2013-06-09T22:20:28Z "But with these wretched wooden shoes----" and he pointed meaningly at his feet. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The pretty girl is about to milk a cow, but turns to listen to her lover, when a magpie steals a silver spoon from one of the wooden shoes at her side. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Then a sudden burst of sound told me that the door at the foot of the stairs had been opened again; and on that followed a clatter of wooden shoes on the bare stairs. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Under the tremendous pressure from above, the stick began slowly, very slowly, to slide on its wooden shoe. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z First was heard a confused noise in the distance, as of angry human voices and the trampling of many wooden shoes. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Our captors were of a mind to treat us kindly, but I must admit that walking in these clumsy wooden shoes occasioned us no little discomfort. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z It is the anniversary of William, who saved us from wooden shoes. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Before I could recover myself one of his comrades struck me on the head with his wooden shoe. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z There was a terrible grating sound; the last stanchion was grinding in its wooden shoe; it was sliding faster! Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z His appearance amongst them, in a sailor's jersey, a sailor cap, sailor's trousers, and carved wooden shoes, excited a sensation. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Then Primislaus doffed his peasant wooden shoes, and proceeded to the brook to clean himself. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Then there are sturdy peasants with wooden shoes and clumsily constructed clothes, riding in vehicles drawn by horses or donkeys or in carts pushed by men, and some are even in wheelbarrows. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Sabot, s�-bō′, n. a wooden shoe, worn by the French peasantry: a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Their wooden shoes—for they were the style in those days—clattered over the board floor; they clapped their hands, their childish voices rang out, and they had, all in all, a most beautiful time. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z And thus bibles prevent the moral growth of the people as effectually as the Chinese wooden shoes prevent the growth of the feet. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Hence came the ancient practice of exhibiting a pair of wooden shoes before the Kings of Bohemia on their coronation; a custom held in observance till the male line of Primislaus became extinct. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Women and girls clattered by on wooden shoes with funny bald-headed, slant-eyed babies strapped on their backs. Captain June 2011-12-08T03:00:26.820Z He could hear his wooden shoes clattering over the stones. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Some hatless, some shoeless, all stockingless; for even those who wore sabots showed an inch or two of naked flesh between the ends of their breeches and the tops of their wooden shoes. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z And I said I would rather have been a French peasant, and worn wooden shoes. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z Passing horses and oxen, and the French peasants with their wooden shoes, are almost on her before she will budge. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z To-day is lovely, warm, and I am sitting at an open window looking at the square, enjoying the queer sights and sounds; for the air resounds with the rattle of wooden shoes on the stones. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Mogstad had his Lappish moccasons on, and knew the way better than I did, so he got to the ship before me; for I couldn’t go very fast with these heavy wooden shoes, you see. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z The clattering of the wooden shoes again was heard on the damp and filthy blocks of the pavement. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z You shall trot about," says a pamphlet almost contemporary with the advent of William iii., "in wooden shoes, à la mode de France, Monsieur will make your souls suffer as well as your bodies. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z In Europe the white willow has long been used for the making of wooden shoes, artificial limbs, and carriage bodies. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It was rich; and when we took up first a peasant woman in wooden shoes and fly-away cap, and then a red-nosed priest smoking a long pipe, we were a superb spectacle. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z When I retired I detected a strong odor in the room and found it due to a collection of sabots, or wooden shoes, seemingly centuries old, which were arranged in a row under my bed. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Blockhead Hans thought he would continue the journey in their company, but he saw an old wooden shoe by the roadside. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z All along the country route from Marseilles, the women seen wore picturesque costumes, with heavy wooden shoes on their feet. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Their clothing was a dark-brown cloak worn on the naked body, with wooden shoes. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z I found M. Steinheil," she exclaimed, "wearing a blue sweater and... wooden shoes. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z One foot was no sooner buried in a wooden shoe called a stirrup than he was off, like an explosion. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And he showed her the wooden shoe and laid the crow in it. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z Along the road, and in the villages they passed through, most of the peasants wore wooden shoes. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Above, in the great hall, the woman laid off her costly garments and put on a coarse coat and wooden shoes. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z "Their wooden shoes, and anything they can lay their hands on, I suppose...." My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z There a bare-legged shepherd, in wooden shoes, pointed hat, and rough jacket over one shoulder, sat piping on a stone, while his goats skipped among the rocks or lay at his feet. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z His hammer rose and fell, driving the great nails into the thick wooden shoes quite mechanically, by force of habit. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z The brethren slip off their wooden shoes, and walk barefoot on the stone flags so as not to disturb the exhausted woman. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Hence the wooden shoes, and those made of coarse hide and dressed and undressed skins, and of coarse cloth, mixed or unmixed with leather. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The singers shook the snow from their coats and their fur caps, took off their wooden shoes, shook hands with us all, and the feast began. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z He could remember a little of one of the airs, and now sat down upon the edge of his straw bed, and tried to play it by striking one wooden shoe against the other. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z It has a Protestant and a Roman Catholic church and some small industries, among them that of wooden shoes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z When she wore the Italian costume, one would have thought her an Italian, and a complete change came over her when she donned the German cap and wooden shoes. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z A loose shirt and baggy trousers, with a small cloth cap is the ordinary costume of the men, many of whom wear wooden shoes; leather slippers are also worn. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z The river was only fifty paces away, Fritz ran to it and brought back the wooden shoe, with which he was accustomed to bail out the boat, full of water. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z He clattered clumsily about on his heavy wooden shoes, with long straws from the stable dangling from his clothes and littering the floor. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z The former had taken off his wooden shoe from his right foot, so that the naked sole touched the dark earth. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z The Hun pointed up to the blue sky: "as if I were in heaven!" said he, gaily spinning round on one of his wooden shoes. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Many of the women wear their gold heirlooms with the finely embroidered caps which are so quaint and becoming, and all wear the customary wooden shoes. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z In his leisure hours he employed himself at his juvenile occupation of making wooden shoes; but with an eye to future opportunities he endeavoured to make proselytes to his regal pretensions. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z What we actually saw was, in some cases, a special kind of wooden shoe, and in others ordinary, well-worn leather boots! One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z I could distinguish also that they wore wooden shoes. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z He stepped up to it, and pulling off his wooden shoe from his right foot, he stood barefoot and stretched out his arms towards the wood. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The prevailing foot-covering for men, women and children is a heavy woolen stocking; this fits the foot snugly, and protects it from the hardness of the clumsy wooden shoe or clog as it is called. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Common Uses: Wagon hubs, handles, yokes, wooden shoe soles, docks and wharves, rollers in glass factories. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He had ta wear wooden shoes an' a tow shirt.' Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z At the challenge the two individuals attempted to flee, but they failed to perceive a patch of ice, on which their wooden shoes slipped. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Friderun again held her tongue, and suddenly ran away like a frightened deer; her wooden shoes clattering over the stone flags. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The men have rugged brown faces, and sinewy arms: some of them wear the heavy wooden shoes, others slippers, while a number are barefooted. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z Query: also, would not brass money be better than no halfpence? and are not wooden shoes as good as bare feet? Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Many of them wore the Auvergne costume—quaint hats or caps, and little shawls, and wooden shoes. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Some one gave them wooden shoes, and the bruised little feet could patter down the stony high-road without fear. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z But I understood presently, when, after picking up my lamp and switching on the light again, I saw her two wooden shoes on the ground. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z In the larger cities, however, such as Rotterdam, one 211 can obtain from the manufacturers a painted wooden shoe, with buttons and stitches carved upon it as ornaments. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z The wooden shoe replaced, she took up her pail and was about to spring blithely over the stile, when she drew back with a little cry of surprise mingled with alarm. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z To these may be added wool-weaving, centred at Sedan, and minor industries such as the manufacture of basket-work, wooden shoes, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" We have frequently seen French boys running in sabots, the foot rising at every step almost out of the unyielding wooden shoe. Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress I couldn't make out her face or her dress at first, because it was almost dark, but she seemed to be a peasant-woman from the sound of her wooden shoes on the cobbles. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z The clatter of the wooden shoes is at first an unpleasant sound, especially when several persons are walking together, but the ear soon becomes accustomed to it, as to all other odd noises. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z In going and coming, wooden shoes or clogs are worn, so that the fox will not get the scent of the party setting the trap. Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers She had opened all the windows, uncovered the beds, let down the curtains, and now in her wooden shoes was running amidst all this confusion from one room to the other. The Wish A Novel They wore a little black apron and wooden shoes. History of Ambulance Company Number 139 He was aroused by the beat of Veronica's wooden shoes on the stairs. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico The road beneath my window was quite quiet except for the occasional clatter past of a child in wooden shoes. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen He had hardly gathered his poise before the girl tumbled into his arms, one of the heavy wooden shoes she was carrying giving him a smart tap on the head. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Gathering up her little petticoat, holding in one hand her wooden shoes, and in the other her little bundle, with one splashing step or two, she had reached the shore. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales Then, as he continued to struggle, he received a heavy kick from a wooden shoe which stretched him out like a log. At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy The only faults he seems to impute to them are the denial of the lawfulness of oaths and capital punishment, and the wearing wooden shoes. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The first thing we saw was a funny old woman in a big white cap, like a large poke bonnet, and wooden shoes on her feet. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story The bonbons may be white ones in little wooden shoes placed in pairs around the table. Gala Day Luncheons A Little Book of Suggestions "Is this also the land of wooden shoes?" we asked ourself, as the rapid clatter of human feet upon the pavements recalled the familiar street-echoes of Antwerp. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Their step was hard and noisy, for they wore wooden shoes fastened to the feet by leather straps over the stockings. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine A coarse upper coat, two wooden shoes, and a cheap felt hat are their only clothing. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Eveline's vanity had brought her to Bondathal; she wanted to show her silk stockings to her former companions, who had seen her in wooden shoes with no stockings, except on occasions. Black Diamonds He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe and carried the duckling home to his wife. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series They tried to waltz; but Aloys threw his feet about as if he had wooden shoes on them, so that the others could not sing for laughing. Black Forest Village Stories Did you see the wooden shoes that the nuns wore? Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The three children wear long aprons all alike, and the queer wooden shoes that the peasants always wore in those days. Stories Pictures Tell Book One The gardener's wife ran hastily up in her clattering wooden shoes, and her shrill voice came up to Gertrude's ears. Gertrude's Marriage Saw-mills and the manufacture of wooden shoes and hats have some importance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Ah! none of the labourers in Leicestershire wear wooden shoes. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) There, indeed, lay Paul Classon, forgetful of the world and all its cares, his outstretched arm almost touching the wheel, and the heavy wooden shoe of the peasant grazing his face. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day How many of you have ever seen wooden shoes? Stories Pictures Tell Book One I am good friends with these little fellows in their pinafores and wooden shoes. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall She goes out in a thing like a bit of brown paper, and the wooden shoes is mighty unhandy with her lameness. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He wanders about his cage in a very inquiring manner, looking for his blessed ants, whom he cannot find anywhere, and making with his claws the noise of a French peasant walking in wooden shoes. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Premislas now took off his rustic wooden shoes, and went to wash himself in the neighbouring brook. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. Graded Poetry: Third Year The dazed and stupefied old natives wandering around in their wooden shoes are in the minority. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall Their wooden shoes rattled and clattered, their disheveled tresses floated in the wind, and the terrified bats flitted over their heads. Pretty Michal The traveller, who was going in nearly the same direction, now set off with his guide, as fast as the latter could go at a jog-trot, after having thrown off his wooden shoes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 His evenings were spent in the woodshed; there was a cradle to be made, and a rocking-chair, and small wooden shoes to be carved. Ditte: Girl Alive! Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The villagers, old women in their starched white head-dresses and old men wearing faded blue smocks and wooden shoes, were unmindful of the great event for which history had destined their village. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" So umbrellas and wooden shoes were the only protections against the rain that falls more than three parts of the year. The Grandee Act II is a capitally arranged interior of the inn, with the wooden shoes of the servant maid clopping around, where the inevitable happens. Ivory Apes and Peacocks They came in shining wooden shoes, and in clean blue working clothes. Ditte: Girl Alive! At other times the same women are forced, by the nature of their employment, to walk over hot pipes, obliging them to wear heavy wooden shoes to protect their feet from being burned. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Time after time, their names were called and they clattered forward in their wooden shoes for each new surprise. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" He wore a jacket of green, lined with scarlet, and had on heavy wooden shoes such as the peasants wear in some parts of Germany. Fairy Tales from the German Forests One took his wooden shoes away, Another took his hat, And someone said, "It serves him right," Now only think of that! Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 He had been the first to attack Kristian, and had afterwards kicked her in her eye with his wooden shoe, because she had stood up for her brother. Ditte: Girl Alive! Sir Robert Walpole, who saved England from wooden shoes and slavery, was of a Norfolk family, yet flourishing; as are the Townshends, to whom we owe the introduction of the turnip. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations Instead they place their wooden shoes on the hearth and the presents and sweets are put in them. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" “First,” answered he, “I grinned in his face, and he took off his wooden shoe, and knocked out one of my teeth.” Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The women left their wooden shoes in the dry ditch by the roadside, and put on leather shoes, and waited for the Pastor's arrival. A Danish Parsonage He stood behind the others, stretching his neck to see what was going on—in ragged working clothes and muddy wooden shoes. Ditte: Girl Alive! At once they join the party to which they belong, and take their places in the midst of the herring, which come higher than their wooden shoes, amidst barrels and bowls of brine. Skipper Worse His legs were bare and his feet were encased in heavy wooden shoes. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" One group was wearing the wooden shoes and frocks of Holland, another group was costumed as Russian peasants and still others were dressed to represent German, Swedish, Danish and Irish folk. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters The old man laughed, and sang a song, As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew. Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright He ran and shouted, ran and shouted, his heavy wooden shoes echoing on the road. Ditte: Girl Alive! She said something to one of the maids, who were standing about in pleased and excited groups laughing and whispering, and the girl shuffled off in her clattering wooden shoes. The Benefactress Paris street gamins climbed the lamp-posts and waved their caps and wooden shoes and shouted shrilly. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" I couldn’t get along so fast with my great wooden shoes, and in my confusion I got right on to the big hummock to the west of the ship’s bow, you know. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I They wear short skirts, comin’ just below their knees, black bodices, long black stockings with gay colored garters, wooden shoes, broad-brimmed hats, saucer shaped, trimmed with stiff black cambric bows. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife After settling this she studded her own and the child's wooden shoes with heavy nails. Ditte: Girl Alive! It is very true that Kline wore a velvet jacket, richly embroidered, while Carl's coat was old, and his wooden shoes were rough enough, in all conscience; but what of that? The Big Nightcap Letters Being the Fifth Book of the Series They wore long baggy bloomers of brown corduroy, tight at the ankles where they flopped about in folds over clumsy wooden shoes. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" There was nothing, from the most delicate instruments down to wooden shoes and axe-handles, that could not be made on board the Fram. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The ancient method of crushing, which still prevails in some parts of Europe, was to tramp the grapes with bare feet or wooden shoes. Manual of American Grape-Growing Woollen underclothing was unknown, and oilskins were things none could afford; a pair of thick leather trousers were worn—with stockings and wooden shoes. Ditte: Girl Alive! You wouldn’t believe it, but I can remember when Farrell wore wooden shoes and lighted his pipe with a candle. Whispering Smith The men wore the blouse and wooden shoes of Millet's country; the orchard was one that belonged to his father. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History For the moment there is a great manufacture of wooden shoes going on, and a newly started nail-making industry. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I He has also a fine practice, and patients of every kind coming on horseback, in carriages, on foot, and in wooden shoes. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 But on Sundays, when people streamed past on their way to church, they were both neatly dressed, Ditte with a clean pinafore and polished wooden shoes, and Granny with a stringed cap. Ditte: Girl Alive! And she, never having seen the Dutchman's children before, forgot to be polite, and stared back at their denim dresses, pigtails, and wooden shoes. The Biography of a Prairie Girl Leaving their wooden shoes in a pigeon-hole for that purpose, they joined an attentive throng of some twenty listeners seated on mats in a dimly-lighted room. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories The servant departed, her wooden shoes clattering loudly on the bare floor. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy In the bottom of the box was a small wooden shoe, and though clumsy in comparison, yet evidently fashioned to fit a lady's foot. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast He busied himself with odd jobs, patched oilskins and mended wooden shoes for the fishermen and became quite brisk again. Ditte: Girl Alive! To right himself in their eyes he set after one of the Dutchman's girls, who shook off her wooden shoes and fled frantically in circles to evade him. The Biography of a Prairie Girl “Of course, and there is your peasant dress and there are your wooden shoes, and there also, mademoiselle, are your soft hands and your accented speech and your plays of Molière.” The Maids of Paradise The patter of wooden shoes upon the streets is almost deafening to strangers, men, women, and children adding to the din. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Sometimes, in the picturesque costume of a peasant-girl, with coarse wooden shoes on her little feet, she would enter a town filled with Royalist troops, and converse gayly with the gendarmes who guarded the gates. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series "Oh, dear, oh, dear!" wept the Willow, a wretched little stunted fellow, who came clattering along in a pair of wooden shoes too big for him. The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness For there stood the little wooden shoes,—Gabriel's, too, though he had not put them there,—and even a larger one apiece for the father and mother, and the blessed Christ-child had not forgotten one! Gabriel and the Hour Book A little breeze began blowing; the scarlet skirt of my turkey-girl fluttered above her wooden shoes, and on her head the silk bow quivered like a butterfly on a golden blossom. The Maids of Paradise But round wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not comfortable wear, however much it may amuse the onlooker to see you try to walk in them. The Magic World ‘Little King Loc,’ answered Abeille, ‘take away these beautiful slippers and give me a pair of wooden shoes instead, and let me go back to my mother.’ The Olive Fairy Book They were, though, and they threw him down, and when he was down, they kicked him with their wooden shoes, in the pit of the stomach. Germinie Lacerteux They also wore wooden shoes and moccasins, or went barefoot, although leather boots and shoes were sometimes used. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. The man came clattering across the square in his wooden shoes. The Maids of Paradise The lad from the posting-house, who came to groom the mare every morning, passed through the passage with his heavy wooden shoes; there were holes in his blouse; his feet were bare in list slippers. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Can you believe that I, with my intellectual requirements, my habits, am going to bury myself in the provinces in order to play cards, look after masons, and walk about in wooden shoes? Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man On a certain Christmas Eve, a merry boy was little Cristobal, as he pattered along to church, trying with his wooden shoes to keep time to the dancing bells. Fairy Book He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen He wondered about wooden shoes and thought he would try to make some. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds And Rodolphe imperceptibly glided from the footstool to the floor; but a sound of wooden shoes was heard in the kitchen, and, he noticed the door of the room was not closed. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life "Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the princess?" What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Before the Flight-Sub rejoined him, Ross was rigged out as a Dutch youth, in voluminous trousers, long coat, stock, tall cylindrical hat, green stockings, and wooden shoes. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood before the king's son, in wooden shoes and such a short jacket that the sleeves did not reach to his wrists. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Their mother helped them to put on their clothes and new wooden shoes. The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Most of the lower classes wear sabots, or wooden shoes. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France But he remained in his mother's house, for he had become a clever maker of wooden shoes, and in summer he looked after the field. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Presently Jan stooped to fasten the strap of one of his klompen, or wooden shoes; then shouting to the dogs he came towards the house. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War That he had done, and had started again in his wooden shoes and old clothes, for the sound of the bell was too enticing—he felt he must go on. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Yes, there she was, trotting toward us in her round cap, blue woollen gown, white apron, and wooden shoes. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Her feet, like all of her race, are extremely small and encased in velvet sandals, with thick wooden shoes, which are peculiar to these people. Shepp's Photographs of the World Here the beetle was put in an old broken wooden shoe, on which a little stick was placed upright for a mast, and to this mast the beetle was bound with a woollen thread. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Some of them went barefoot, but the most of them wore wooden shoes. World's War Events, Vol. II And he made a kick with his wooden shoe at the toad, which just escaped being crushed by managing to scramble into the nettles which grew high by the well's brink. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The fact was, that about this time the folk in that old city began to wear wooden shoes, which, they said, were good enough for them, and lasted longer than any other. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The kind who are all clothes and wooden shoes.” The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar "Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the girls. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Wetteren Hospital—brick walls and stone floors, the clatter of wooden shoes in the outer corridor, where peasants shuffled. Young Hilda at the Wars Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her stockings, to do honor to the noble guests. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen A man smoking a big pipe and wearing baggy breeches and wooden shoes came up and surveyed us with kindly amusement, as Simmons scraped at me with infinite gusto. 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 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. Graded Memory Selections In the winter he made wooden shoes, and then he had an assistant, a journeyman, who understood as well as he himself did how to make the wooden shoes strong, and light, and graceful. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales She was a tiny woman, every detail of her in miniature, clearly defined, except the heavy, noisy wooden shoes. Young Hilda at the Wars But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she had to wear large wooden shoes, so that her little instep grew quite red. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Men, women and children, wooden shoes and all, there were four hundred of them. 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 The old Moon laughed and sang a song As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew. Graded Memory Selections But in the settlements wooden shoes were worn instead of moccasins, and garments of texture lighter than buckskin. Heroes of the Middle West The French When she came to the middle, the arms gave way, and White Caroline would have been drowned had she not been held by the heels of her little wooden shoes. Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sat with the ducklings running to and fro over her wooden shoes. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The people we met in Holland wear wooden shoes to teach them patience and humility. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe Bringing the fishermen home. Graded Memory Selections Many of the men, women, and children wore sabots, or wooden shoes, which Paul compared to canal boats, and went clumping and clattering along the streets like champion clog-dancers. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim She wore wooden shoes, and smelt of onions. The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard 1920 "Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the Princess?" Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen She wears a cotton check pinafore over her plain frock, and goes in wooden shoes. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes And Nod is a little head, And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies Is a wee one’s trundle bed. Graded Memory Selections "Little King Loc, give me a pair of wooden shoes, such as the peasants wear, and let me return to Clarides." Honey-Bee 1911 "It's those wooden shoes that tire you," he said, looking down at me. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille "Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the younger girls. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The step of a man in wooden shoes is heard as he steals along by the wall, or perchance it is the rain dripping from the roof to the ground. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life “Sailed off in a wooden shoe ... into a sea of dew.” Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide She is rich now, and owns the whole block, but still holds to her old peasant customs, and wears wooden shoes. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California My good and faithful valet, Charles Thelin, procured a smock-frock and a pair of wooden shoes, and after shaving off my mustaches I took a plank upon my shoulders. Hortense Makers of History Series Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes appeared; he had arrived just as quickly on the road he had chosen. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen And they would eat the hens of their own poultry-yard, the vegetables of their own garden, and would dine without taking off their wooden shoes! Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life What was the wooden shoe that sailed the skies? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide They wear wooden shoes, not uncuriously painted; and the women especially express a kind of rural simplicity and frolic mirth, which has a very agreeable effect. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Jackson said the sky rained hats, market baskets, and wooden shoes for five minutes after his Blériot had come to rest on the steps of the bureau de poste. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France He wore wooden shoes, and when his father worked in a ship-yard, the boy, wrapped up in an old worn-out shawl, carried his dinner to him every day. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen They panted while pressing the screw, drew the juice off into the vat, looked after the bung-holes, with heavy wooden shoes on their feet; and in all this they found a huge diversion. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life What then was all this story about fishing from a wooden shoe for herring fish with nets of silver and gold? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide I ran over the soft carpet of new vegetation; it seemed to echo with the sounds of a man in wooden shoes, fleeing over a tiled floor. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle In winter up in Holland I sit in furs and wooden shoes, and often have to put alcohol in my water-cups to keep my colors from freezing. The Man In The High-Water Boots Jeppe Jans cultivated his fields in summer, and in the winter he made wooden shoes. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The workpeople were passing, dragging their wooden shoes over the pebbles, and the bell was ringing for supper. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Presently he heard a more orderly clatter of wooden shoes and he saw several of the soldiers, who had not yet gone ashore, hurry to the rail. Tom Slade on a Transport Warming-pans were associated with brass money and wooden shoes in the mouths and minds of Whig partisans, down to a day not very far remote from our own. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I This proud woman with the domineering personality now wore wooden shoes and the garb of a scullion. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself did how to make wooden shoes strong, but light, and in the fashion. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Those are the wooden shoes we have read about so often in books. Rollo in Paris The old moon laughed and sang a song, As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children In mounting the stone which served as step to the railless veranda, he shook off, carelessly, his wooden shoes. The Dragon Painter In the little hall hung long coats lined with woolly sheepskin; on the floor were wooden shoes, shovels, axes, etc. The Land of the Long Night He stood before the mayor in his poor but clean and well-mended clothes, with heavy wooden shoes on his feet, looking as humble as if it had been the king himself. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Estelle glanced her eyes, for an instant, toward the wooden shoes, and then began to look back along the street again, watching anxiously for the trunks. Rollo in Paris For a moment he was a tow-headed, round-eyed boy again, clumping in wooden shoes along the edge of the tulip fields. Wind Many women in wooden shoes—very poor, but very industrious—living on limpets, snails, garlick, and mushrooms.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts As I glanced around I saw two queer-looking things, resembling in shape the sabots or wooden shoes of the peasantry of Europe, only very much larger, hanging near the sides. The Land of the Long Night This rustic beauty, in her cotton bodice, her blue print skirt and her wooden shoes, no longer shouts. The Choice of Life This done, however, Master Andrew was taken in hand, and his wooden shoes removed. In Kings' Byways At the sound of a footstep in the passage she stopped her work with a sharp contraction of the heart: even the clattering wooden shoes could not wholly disguise that footstep for her. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales He would come there with his nightman's tools and his wooden shoes covered with muck, and would set to work, whining incessantly about the nature of his occupation. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. "And where are you going so fast, as if those wooden shoes of yours were sandals of mercury?" Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida There was the Yellow Dwarf, an odious little figure, sitting sucking an orange in the tree, swinging his wooden shoes, and grinning all over his wrinkled face. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son The rare passengers blew into their hands, and shuffled in their wooden shoes to set the blood agog. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Well, on opening her door this morning, she found on the threshold, her child's two little wooden shoes. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Tibe was flattered at first, and preened himself for admiration; but presently he became worried, then disgusted, and ran before the storm of voices and wooden shoes. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon One night, just as Doc was a covering up, he heard dem wooden shoes a coming; so he sot up in de grave and took his white shirt and put it over his head. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 And with certain reserves, it will be taken at its own valuation by foreigners who are still in darkness and deplorably given to slavery, to say nothing of wooden shoes and the consumption of frogs. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century That exception was the comic countryman, a lean marionnette in wooden shoes, who spoke in prose and in a broad patois much appreciated by the audience. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) He went back, however, during the night, to fish up the dead girl's wooden shoes, in order to carry them to her mother's threshold. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories It’s just like one I saw at the South Kensington Museum, only it has such funny wooden shoes on.” Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Nicette did so, and a wealthy collector of curiosities gave her a very large sum indeed for Paganini's wooden shoe. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians The fellow had wooden shoes on, and when the music began slow he began a shuffle, and gradually put on the pace till you couldn’t tell one foot from the other.” Roger Ingleton, Minor The newcomer was dressed exactly as Nicko was dressed—the same blue and ragged smock, shapeless trousers, wooden shoes, and with a hat the twin of the one the first Nicko wore. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier As for me, I attach special importance about the wooden shoes, as they indicate a certain moral culture and a faculty for tenderness on the part of the assassin. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Early in the morning there passed by a peasant who saw him, broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and brought him home to his wife. Favorite Fairy Tales It was brought in, and the first thing which he pulled out was a large wooden shoe. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Italian, Spanish, Russian; French peasants in blue blouses and wooden shoes, workmen in the dress English working people wore a hundred years ago. The Magic City She saw that he wore a familiar, patched, blue smock, baggy trousers, and wooden shoes. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier I thought of Martine and how smart she always looked in her short striped petticoat, her stockings, which were always tightly drawn, and her wooden shoes covered with leather, which she blacked like boots. Marie Claire On his feet were wooden shoes, curled up at the toes like the end of an Indian canoe. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Soon afterward appeared an advertisement announcing that, on New Year's eve, Paganini would give a concert, and play five pieces on the violin and five on a wooden shoe. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians It was strange to observe the peasantry hobbling along in their wooden shoes, the flopping of the loose footwear at the heels beating a rhythmic clap, clap on the cobblestone pave. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces His tunic was made of various skins of beasts sewn together, with a cowl: he used wooden shoes, and wore no stockings unless when he was obliged to go out of the monastery. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March The farmer came out of the house carrying a lantern which he held high up in the air, and which only lit up the toes of his wooden shoes. Marie Claire So, in less than a week's time, his wooden shoes walked on board the ship "Dolphin," and away he went to California, and I didn't hear of him again for many a long day. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Then, taking up the wooden shoe, he commenced a descriptive fantasia. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Ah, monsieur gives away his wooden shoe to a barefoot! Ten Tales "Oh, it is not difficult to find; besides, I will conduct you there myself;" and, suiting the action to the words, he began to move his long bony legs, which terminated in immense wooden shoes. The Queen's Necklace All day long you could hear her grumbling and dragging her wooden shoes after her as she walked. Marie Claire As his wooden shoes clicked on the stone paving, he stripped them off and strung them round his neck. Chatterbox, 1905. Clattering about in wooden shoes, the old women, in quaint costume, may be seen driving their geese down the picturesque streets to the meadows. Denmark On Thursdays, in the winter, the aisles resounded for an instant with the clang of wooden shoes, when the students of the catechism came and went. Ten Tales We hitched three spans of them to a scoot that had wide, wooden shoes, and that was loaded high with bags of grain, harnesses, peavies, shovels, axes, and chains. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Her peasant headdress was high and elaborate, winged with chicken feathers, and her short skirts gave way before white stockings pulpily emerging from painted wooden shoes which clicked over the dull tiled floor. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Their clothes: was it true that the French wore wooden shoes? While Caroline Was Growing “What have you done with your wooden shoe, little wretch?” Ten Tales The ladies of the family, who were shod in wooden shoes, used to clatter round our slumbers in the early morning getting provisions from below. The Great War As I Saw It If the wooden shoes are not easily obtained, fair substitutes may be made by covering an old pair of shoes with cream colored oil-cloth. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays The host surprised them, and not believing that young peasants, so coarsely clothed and wearing wooden shoes, could lawfully be in possession of such a sum, he had given them in charge. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew A rooster in wooden shoes with a basket under his wing! The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Table-delicacies, paper, wooden shoes, hats, wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye-works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A moment later, a fleshy peasant woman, wearing wooden shoes, turned out of an adjoining street and ran awkwardly toward the scene of the explosion. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army Just then, however, a laborer, in a long blouse, with heavy wooden shoes, came out of the house and remained at the door, staring with his small blue eyes at the royal carriage. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Rose thought all night of the fine fortune of being a queen; she would then no longer wear wooden shoes; and, above all, might have an opportunity of being useful to her dear parents. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew One of his miniatures for string-quartet bangs with the beat of the wooden shoes of peasants dancing to the snarling tones of a bagpipe. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers On they sped till the road merged into a street lined with shops, where children in wooden shoes and men in blouses shuffled about. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer She had on some old shoes—wooden shoes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Their boots were torn, and robbed of the silver spurs; and, as in the case of Prince Augustus of Hohenzollern, many wore wooden shoes. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Her delicate feet were clad in wooden shoes, but both the foot and the shoe were so shapely, that any lady in the land might have been proud to exhibit them. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew The Frenchman who made wooden shoes, While airing his Socialist views, Deserted his bench For the horrible trench, As soon as he heard the war news. War Rhymes by Wayfarer Children, who, following the good example of the early bird, were already abroad, scurried out of his way, making a great clatter in their wooden shoes, and gaping until he passed beyond their sight. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer It sounded with thunder of transports, rattle of wagons, soft whirr of officers' speed cars, yelp of motor horns, and the tap-tap of wooden shoes on tiny peasants, boys and girls. Golden Lads They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old gray kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm The queen promised to employ a confidential domestic; and Rose, who had still preserved her wooden shoes, sent one, that her father might recognise his handiwork. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Perhaps the best representative of the modern manufactures of Rhodes is the wooden shoe, which is in form like the Damascus clog, but is inlaid with more taste. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two French children with clattering wooden shoes had clustered about him when he paused, old wives had called, "Vive l'Amerique!" from windows and, like the post-boy of old, he had enjoyed the prestige which was his. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer All sorts of wreckage scattered over the street, hats and wooden shoes, German helmets, swords and saddles, bottles and all sorts of bundles which had been dropped and abandoned when the trouble began. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Then she sat down on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and slipped it into the golden one, which fitted it perfectly. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm The master came to the cottage, and seeing them so united and industrious, encouraged the trade of the wooden shoes, which increased their comforts without exposing them to the vices attendant on avarice and luxury. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew So whatever they were they still wore their broad hats and crowns, and their wooden shoes, that still he might watch in his own mind himself and Grendel making their way to fortune and happiness. The Field of Clover A French child who sat upon the step had one of his wooden shoes full of smoky, used bullets, which he seemed greatly to prize. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer The marshes were too soft to hold up anything so small as a hoof, so when farmers used horses there, they fastened broad wooden shoes on the horses' feet. Across the Fruited Plain Having no leather, one little factory turned out five hundred pairs of wooden shoes a month in Richmond. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict In return for some little services then rendered them, he desired to learn the trade of the wooden shoes; being very ingenious, he became a valuable acquisition. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew "They're wooden shoes that make a lot of noise and have brass nails in them." Suzanna Stirs the Fire If he will keep me with him I will wear wooden shoes and a mob-cap, it is all the same to me. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Noise was ceasing around the sinking bonfire, a clatter of wooden shoes setting homeward along the streets of Kaskaskia. Old Kaskaskia Joseph is represented—it is often the case in Breton carvings—as a Breton peasant, wearing the clumsy wooden shoes of the country. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 When I was a boy," rejoined the woodcutter, "my father taught me to make wooden shoes and I made them so light and so neat, that they were everywhere sought for. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew She herself was poor and uneducated, her husband was only a miller, with no recreation beyond the beer-garden and a clicking reluctantly off to church in his wooden shoes on Sunday. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Room enough for cargo to last a year or two, In the round amidships of a wooden shoe! Days of the Discoverers His feet clogged their lightness with a pair of the wooden shoes manufactured for slaves. Old Kaskaskia The handmaiden waited upon us, but she was heavy and not intelligent, and she walked about in wooden shoes that clattered and echoed and shocked one's nerves. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 This is not all, madam," continued Rose; "I confess that I love a young peasant, who has assisted my father to make wooden shoes. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew He would let them laugh, and then at noon he would wait outside the door and smash the boy who laughed loudest over the head with a wooden shoe—and let it go at that. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Laden for the Indies, trading all the way, Frank and shrewd and cautious, fiery in a fray,— Sagamore and mandarin are all the same to you, Little Nick of Leyden with your wooden shoe! Days of the Discoverers He shook off his wooden shoes and whirled upon one toe. Old Kaskaskia And he thought about his wooden shoes and knew there would be no goodies in them for him in the morning. Christmas Stories And Legends "Oh, if there were but a hundred pounds in each," replied Thomas, "that would be sufficient to extend our little commerce, and send our wooden shoes to China itself." The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew After trying several times, it occurred to him that he had been deceived; and, indeed, he found 'twas a wooden shoe such as is worn in Gascony. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) Such an object; short and squat, dressed in a queer blue blouse with flowing sleeves, wide trousers and queer wooden shoes. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Father Baby began to realize that his revel was over, and reluctantly stuck his toes again into his wooden shoes. Old Kaskaskia While Granny was slowly putting on her clothes, little Gretchen having finished dressing herself, unfastened the door and hurried out to see what the Christmas angels had left in the old wooden shoe. Christmas Stories And Legends Everychild addressed himself to Hansel—who, by the way, was a fat boy with wooden shoes and a tiny homespun jacket and trousers of the same stuff, the trousers being very floppy about the ankles. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old A man who was passing, with a whip in his hand, and wearing wooden shoes, stopped near the child, took it up, and kissed it. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 The bridge had been washed away, but the inhabitants had made a boat like a sort of huge wooden shoe which they dragged to and fro with ropes. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia His mind stuck as fast to his worries as a wooden shoe in spring mud. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan The result was that Bruneau was thrust out of doors, and, sent back to his native village and the manufacture of wooden shoes. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton She was really quite charming in her wooden shoes, and her ample blue skirt, somewhat short, and her waist of terra-cotta color, with white sleeves. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old So Césaire Houlbrèque went off with his whip under his arm, brooding over his own thoughts, and lifting up one after the other his heavy wooden shoes daubed with clay. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,— Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library Ah! without being a Catholic, one may well wish Rome was not dependent on English sight-seers, who violate her ceremonies with acts that bespeak their thoughts full of wooden shoes and warming-pans. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Bruneau was the son of a maker of wooden shoes, who resided at the little village of Vezin, in the department of the Maine and Loire. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton You only heard the noise of their wooden shoes, and of the wooden benches as they raised them to sit down. Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. The young fellow still hesitated, looked down at his wooden shoes, moved about his cap, then, all of a sudden, he made up his mind: "Here it is: I want to marry Céleste Lévesque." The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Stout bodies, plump countenances, wooden shoes, and the cauchoise--even to exceedingly tall copies of the latter! A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Even a number of Chinamen, who couldn't understand ten words of English, and knew not what they shouted for, were in the crowd, wooden shoes, pig-tails and all. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia So Jack's father made a big wooden shoe, and the boys helped him paint it black. Boy Blue and His Friends Because, if he was a staunch Protestant, by the great Deliverer that saved us from brass money, wooden shoes, and so forth, I'd marry you and him together. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One A policeman wandered along sadly,—as if to remind one of the town,—and on one side, a gardener passed scuffling his wooden shoes, as if to recall the village. His Excellency the Minister More than half the population wore wooden shoes, when they wore any at all. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest He longs to hear the clatter of wooden shoes. Humanly Speaking I cannot tell you all the things that found their way into that wooden shoe. Boy Blue and His Friends Behind them followed a tiny little creature not higher than one's knee, with his mother's wooden shoes on his feet, and wearing a paper cap on his head. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel Men, women, and children, go clattering about in wooden shoes with loose heels. New National Fourth Reader Supper was brought in by a Chinese cook in a pigtail, wooden shoes, and a blue Mother Hubbard, Choo Loo by name. Clover The people here wear wooden shoes an have big manure piles an no shapes. "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" The boy then slowly worked his way out, but his wooden shoes were a great encumbrance, and he moved with difficulty. Gritli's Children Even the minister of the village said that he was no dull boy, for nobody is dull who rides on horseback and never wears wooden shoes. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk Gaily the old man sang to the vibrant sound of his fiddle, Tous les Bourgeois de Chartres, and Le Carillon de Dunkerque, And anon with his wooden shoes beat time to the music. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study Meekly, Hansa donned the strange jacket and skirt; but her tiny feet, accustomed to the soft boots of reindeer-skin, could not endure the hard, clumsy wooden shoes. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 At times we passed by a lady, struggling with her skirts, unsteadily tripping along in her high wooden shoes, looking exactly like the figures painted on screens, tucked up under a gaudily daubed paper umbrella. Madame Chrysantheme "There is a blouse!—a paysan, as in the pictures—he wears the cap! he has the wooden shoes!" The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Now he was poor again, and everybody called him a dull block, for he rode no great white horse and he wore wooden shoes. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk You will see the fat old women rattling home in their market carts, and hear the clang and click of wooden shoes down the streets. The Little Colonel's Hero I put on the clothes of one of my peasants, slumped in Jacquot's wooden shoes, and kept my mouth open as well as I could for the dust. Lazarre But I have sworn and I swear that I will keep this carpet, as the peasant, who was raised from the hut to the palace of his sovereign, still kept his wooden shoes. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) By this time the Cathedral of Chartres was alive with the clatter of wooden shoes, the rustle of petticoats, and the tinkle of mass-bells. The Cathedral They wore leather boots instead of wooden shoes, and they all looked weak and pale. Sex and Society On nearing the city a pair of wooden shoes were seen in the air coming down, and they lit in the the canal by the tannery. Peck's Compendium of Fun I gave her the largest coin in my pocket, and she flew back as well as the spirit of childhood could fly in wooden shoes. Lazarre And what a noise they do make with their wooden shoes when they run around! Big People and Little People of Other Lands The little goose-girl was indeed tired, and the little wooden shoes grew heavier and heavier, and the little bare feet ached dully; but her heart was light and her mind sweet with happiness. The Goose Girl And the country nobility were hardly different from the peasants; they drove their own primitive plows and clattered about in wooden shoes on the earthen floors of their cottages. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 I have already said that the lower half of this large case was closed, giving the whole structure the appearance of a rectangular wooden shoe. Atlantida The wooden shoes clattered in uneasy measure on the pavements. Invisible Links Others are like the wooden shoes the Chinamen wear, which turn up at the toes. Big People and Little People of Other Lands On the two went, the old man in tatters, the goose-girl in wooden shoes. The Goose Girl A clapping of hands sounded, followed by the uproar of a swarm of children clattering in wooden shoes over the stone flags. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Here the men made wooden shoes with leather tops for the trenches, cigarette packages, ingenious toys—the airships and motor ambulances were the most striking; baskets, chairs, lace. The Living Present As soon as it was out of sight, the prince jumped into his own, shook the dust off his clothes, kicked off his wooden shoes, and seized the reins. France in the Nineteenth Century In the ninth and tenth centuries the greatest princes of Europe wore wooden shoes. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Her hands, rough-nailed and sunburnt, were small and shapely; the bare foot in the wooden shoe might have worn without trouble Cinderella's magic slipper. The Goose Girl Dire were its creakings on festival days beneath the weight of wooden shoes. Abbe Mouret's Transgression He leaned on the gate a minute; then crossed the garden as softly as his wooden shoes would let him. Bebee But the next instant the lad had kicked out with the clumsy wooden shoes he wore, and the soldier fell back half stunned into the sea. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne I made an engagement to meet him the next morning, when he bethought him of his promise to the old man of the cudgel and wooden shoes. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Oft the little wooden shoes had lagged, but here they were, still a hundred yards or more ahead of him. The Goose Girl At all hours of the night may be heard their talk and the clatter of their wooden shoes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 And I shall finish your picture, Bébée, and all Paris will see you, and the great ladies will envy the little girl with her two wooden shoes. Bebee She sent her priests in wooden shoes From haughty Gaul to make ragouts; Instead of wholesome bread and cheese, To dress their soups and fricassees; And, for our home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caviare. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 He wore wooden shoes, and was holding the cordwood fast between his knees, rolling his hat nervously in his big hands. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women And all this fine ambition tumbles down before the wooden shoes of a pretty goose-girl. The Goose Girl Iconoclast Collins strikes his wooden shoe through him, and passes on, saying almost nothing.—My space is done! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I The click-clack of her wooden shoes on the hot pavements made none look up; little rustics came up every day like this to make their fortunes in Paris. Bebee But P——r and copper L——h we'll excuse, The commands of your betters you dare not refuse, Obey was the word when you wore wooden shoes. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 "Let Paris be the theme of Gallia's Muse Where Slav'ry treads the Streets in wooden shoes." English Travellers of the Renaissance Ah, well, as long as kings surrounded themselves with armies and with pomp, there would always be wooden shoes. The Goose Girl The peasants here commonly wear wooden shoes; and they who do not consider how powerful is the force of custom, are surprised how they contrive to walk so well, in such awkward and clumsy machines. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium She kissed it, and laid it in one of her little wooden shoes that stood upon the bed. Bebee It is drawn by four horses, who have to be shod with broad wooden shoes, usually made of ash plank, nine by eleven inches, fastened to the iron shoes of the horse by screws. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands They build houses, they work in carpentry, they forge weapons, gun-barrels and locks, swords, knives, pickaxes, cards for wool, ploughshares, gun-stocks, shovels, wooden shoes, and frames for weaving. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Her wooden shoes made a clatter whenever they left the rugs, but she stepped as lightly as she could. The Goose Girl As he walked his feet clattered on the board floor like the sound of wooden shoes. Pardners The women left the rosebud in the wooden shoe, not knowing what she meant. Bebee Men and women both wear the heavy wooden shoes called sabots, in which the feet suffer no pressure as from leather shoes, and are protected against the moisture of the ground. Jean Francois Millet The three girls, dressed in their black woolen frocks, white capulets and wooden shoes—Bernadette alone having stockings, in consideration of her health—trudged on, enjoying the pure air. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 He wears a hat which he has at some fished out of a gutter, a ragged blue blouse, a raggeder apron, which was in its brighter days a coffee-sack, and wooden shoes upon his feet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Thus Susanna had arrived in Wesselburen one stormy autumn evening, in wooden shoes, without a penny, and an entire stranger. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig The old man chuckled as he glanced after her, and listened to the wooden shoes pattering wearily up the broad stone steps. Bebee As I descended the steps, I saw about twenty little children with their wooden shoes in their hands, who had come to take the lessons which he gave them, even on his death-bed. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty They were in advance of Bernadette, who stopped frequently to cough, and when she came up to the stream they were putting on their wooden shoes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 They wear leather boots too sometimes, instead of the wooden shoes belonging to their station, but they are boots which are but a mockery and a delusion, and yield the wearer no comfort. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Near us is a dusty blousard in huge wooden shoes, who dances no less vigorously with his head and arms than with his legs; and how earnestly he does bend to his work! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 So she walked on her first ten unknown miles, meeting a few people only, and being altogether unmolested—a small gray figure, trotting in two little wooden shoes. Bebee He was like the gardener who, having become king, was forced to put on sandals of purple, and longed regretfully for his wooden shoes heavy with clay and with poverty. Romance of the Rabbit A wretched, cracked earthen cup, or an old wooden shoe, hanging by a string to his belt, he uses to ask alms in the shape of wine. The Devil's Pool Meet me at the 'Turban and Scimitar,' Bebeck Road, Thursday morning at three o'clock; blue cotton umbrella, wooden shoes, and Ulster overskirt Polonaise all round the bottom. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Early in the morning a peasant came by, and found him there; he took his wooden shoe, broke the ice to pieces, and carried the Duckling home to his wife. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The sound of her wooden shoes was lost in the softness and thickness of the carpets. Bebee Immediately after my arrival in Antwerp I left for a short trip over the border to Rosendaal, Holland, where I saw but little more than brick-houses, tile roofs, and wooden shoes. A Trip Abroad October 31st: The commune of Anderlecht has voted a credit of 40,000 francs for the purchase of wooden shoes as the shortage of leather prevents most of the people from buying boots. Through the Iron Bars Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium You don't go calling in wooden shoes, and do you burst out more shoe-nails by day, or by night when you can't see the stones, the holes, or the ditches? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Behind the booth was a great space with wooden shoes, pottery, turners' and saddlers' wares. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 "One creature loved me once," he says to women who wonder why the wooden shoes are there. Bebee Grey and brown, the crowd clattered by on their wooden shoes. Kimono There was now a great bustling about; they ran across the yard in wooden shoes; the bellowing of cattle and the rough voices of men were mingled together. Pictures of Sweden It was called "A Message from Noël," and showed an angel flying down with gifts to fill a pair of little wooden shoes that some child had put out on a window-sill below. The Gate of the Giant Scissors A pair of heavy wooden shoes should be allowed every other year. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro True, Bébée worked hard just the same, and just the same was seen trudging to and fro in the dusk of dawns and afternoons in her two little wooden shoes. Bebee From sundown, when people go clattering by in their wooden shoes from the fields, to daylight, when the birds awake, all is silence. On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes She'll put on wooden shoes too, and carelessly crush the puddles, the little heaps of mud, and the weeping mosses. Barks and Purrs In the other was a pair of little wooden shoes, fashioned like the ones that Jules had worn when she first knew him. The Gate of the Giant Scissors Like every one else, from the proudest nobleman to the boy in wooden shoes, we were given a laissez-passer, which gave us permission to go anywhere; this with a passport was our only credential. With the Allies When the messengers of Flamen came that day, they took him back a dead moss-rose and a pair of little wooden shoes worn through with walking. Bebee The savate is a rude exercise in vogue among rowdies, and consists in kicking with the peasant's wooden shoe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Ah, but what delirious joy when the capricious wooden shoes turn again toward the house, hurrying to rejoin Him whom we've left scratching paper! Barks and Purrs Why should the Frenchman call his wooden shoe a sabot and his old shoe a savate, both from the same root? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 On such a night as this, the night of August 18, strange folk in wooden shoes and carrying bundles, and who looked like emigrants from Ellis Island, appeared in front of the restaurant. With the Allies She often felt tired, and her wooden shoes were wearing so thin that the hot dust of the road at noonday burnt her feet through them. Bebee Then there was the endless sound of wooden shoes clattering over the rough pavements, and people talking in that most unmusical of all languages, low Dutch. Views a-foot The pilots who came on board, with their very little hats, their immense wide, short breeches, and large wooden shoes, surprised me not a little. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 As she stood irresolute, there came up from below the sound of steps on the stairs, ascending steps, nearer and nearer, then distinctly the clatter of Valentine's wooden shoes, then another and a heavier tread. Through the Wall She looked about six years old, and she had great trouble to keep her little brown feet inside the wooden shoes, which were many sizes too large for her. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine She had her little winter cloak of frieze and her wooden shoes and her little white cap with the sunny curls rippling out of it in their pretty rebellion. Bebee Her dress was thin and ragged and a pair of wooden shoes but ill protected her feet from the sharp cold. Views a-foot Dutch pipes, dried flounders, wooden shoes, apples, and gingerbread, are then offered for sale, and if the weather be fine, the beach is thronged with company, many of whom come from a great distance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 With an understanding nod Valentine disappeared inside the tower and the quick clatter of her wooden shoes echoed up from below. Through the Wall And, carried away by the goodness of his heart, little Wolff took off the wooden shoe from his right foot, and laid it in front of the sleeping child. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls She kissed the rosebud once more and laid it gently down in the wooden shoe. Bebee Every morning there is a vigorous splashing and mopping performed before every door by plump servant girls, in white caps and thick wooden shoes. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America Oh, have you been to Finist�re, and do you know a whin-gray town That echoes to the clatter of a thousand wooden shoes? Ballads of a Bohemian His arms are swelled because of being bound so tight, his wooden shoes are large and clumsy, and he is lame. A Tale of Two Cities "What have you done with your wooden shoe, little wretch?" Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Paganini made a violin out of a wooden shoe. Bebee To dream of a wooden shoe, is significant of lonely wanderings and penniless circumstances. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition She now ran in, holding up a pair of huge wooden shoes. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. A Tale of Two Cities Ah, monsieur gives away his wooden shoes to a barefoot! Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls His world would laugh too utterly if he made for himself a mistress out of a little Fleming in two wooden shoes. Bebee One would have thought the power of the wind sufficient to set a steel battleship scudding before it like a wooden shoe. The Cruise of the Jasper B. There were beautiful Friesland girls in wooden shoes and coarse petticoats, with solid gold crescents encircling their heads, finished at each temple with a golden rosette and hung with lace a century old. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates He traces his lineage in unbroken line to that haughty Johann Jakob who came to America in the steerage, wearing a Limburger linsey-woolsey and a pair of wooden shoes. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 No wooden shoes have ever been over that floor yet.' The Red Fairy Book "Much better." he answered her dreamily, and lay there in the grass, holding the little wooden shoes in his hands. Bebee The Sawhorse wore wooden shoes to keep his wooden legs from wearing away, and he was strong and swift. The Emerald City of Oz There a bare-legged shepherd, in wooden shoes, pointed hat, and rough jacket over one shoulder, sat piping on a stone while his goats skipped among the rocks or lay at his feet. Little Women He wore wooden shoes and a little yellow coat, and as he had no hair and very long ears he looked altogether a shocking little object. The Blue Fairy Book The fact was he thought them very ugly, with their sun-burnt necks, their great red hands, their coarse petticoats and their wooden shoes. The Red Fairy Book Her feet were fair in the brown wooden shoes. Bebee In this respect, the distance is as great between a pair of wooden shoes and the trunk of a walnut-tree, as between a statue by Scopas and a block of marble. What is Property? Only little Wolff presented himself shivering in his thin everyday clothes, and wearing on his feet socks and wooden shoes. Good Stories for Holidays A dozen Breton women in their huge white winged caps and wooden shoes hurried up to the door, through the gray fog. Frances Waldeaux Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock, but even in this disguise she was so beautiful that all the passers-by wondered who she could be. The Red Fairy Book They talked themselves hoarse with impatience and chagrin, and went backwards over the threshold, their wooden shoes and their shrill voices keeping a clattering chorus. Bebee The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures and the most humble of these houses about 1817. Les Misérables I cannot hang my stocking in the fireplace, but I shall put my wooden shoe on the hearth for him. Good Stories for Holidays A cart piled high with manure was approaching, the driver, wearing wooden shoes and cracking at intervals a huge whip, trudging at the side. The Yellow Streak Her naked feet are stuck in wooden shoes. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Bébée's wooden shoes went pattering down the sloping and uneven stones. Bebee Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,—Napoleon and Mathurin Bruneau. Les Misérables Then she put on the gown she had worn as a beggar-girl, and her wooden shoes, and let her hair down over her shoulders. The Faery Tales of Weir The rooms have stone floors and vaulted roofs, the children walk about with wooden shoes, and the pitter-patter makes a pleasant music. The Book of Delight and Other Papers But some suppose that the trouble arose With a certain Corporal Sanders, Who sought to abuse the wooden shoes That the natives wore in Flanders. A Little Book of Western Verse |
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