| 单词 | hobnail |
| 例句 | "The Time Is Now . . ." the sign across the river began, but with history stomping upon me with hobnailed boots, I thought with a laugh, why worry about time? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, the hobnailed boots of East German soldiers, patrolling the street above, echoed overhead. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I feared hunger, pneumonia, guards with hobnail boots, older boys with bottleglass knives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He wears hobnailed jackboots every second of every day, and the cadets joke that he kicked his way out of the womb with them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One night it was brown-shirted storm troopers singing and parading past in hobnailed boots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A brass pin weighs lightly on each of their lapels; one hundred and fourteen hobnailed boots spark against pebbles on the trail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "Oh well, onwards and upwards," sighed a tearful Pete as he, Alex and Ruth linked arms and walked away from Morwellham Quay, their hobnailed boots clopping along the damp Devonshire cobbles one last time. Edwardian Farm, how will we cope without you? 2011-01-20T12:16:02Z The Victorian era saw a surge in the popularity of women travellers, with adventurers such as Mary Kingsley and Gertrude Bell publishing travelogues, and inspiring others to follow in their hobnailed footsteps. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z Positing that George Mallory, the renowned British climber who vanished on Mount Everest in 1924, might have actually reached the summit, this stodgy documentary from National Geographic Entertainment feels as antiquated as Mallory’s hobnailed boots. | 'The Wildest Dream': A Mountain View 2010-08-06T01:22:00Z “At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.” Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z Instead we are where we are, a power in permanent decline squabbling over which political party gets to administer the next hobnailed blow to our national pride. Whip It? You mean it's not about an undernourished British dog? 2010-04-13T14:45:00Z Mallory and Irvine, wearing wool and gabardine, hobnailed leather boots and homemade oxygen sets, disappeared into a swirling cloud on that fateful day, never to be seen alive again. The Mount Everest mystery deepens: Was there an international cover-up of a dead climber's ascent? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “In 1975, the whole British penal system was based on brutality and ignorance. They only employed ex-squaddies as screws: hobnailed boots, bulging muscles with tattoos. Everything was force.” 'You start getting bitter': what I learned from 43 years in prison 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z There were days when I felt utterly under its hobnailed boot, and there were days when I did not want to listen to “Fear of Music” again. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z If you know when and where to look, you can find sumptuous patches of violet blewits, a foreboding rust-colored tree pathogen called the “orange hobnail canker” and a honey-hued jelly fungi known as “witches’ butter.” A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The word "hobnail" first appears in a text attributed to Shakespeare, but it's difficult to imagine it arose from a creative poetic act. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z A beefy man in hobnail cowboy boots met me at a swanky hotel in Dubai, then said he was reluctant to take on such a small but difficult job. The truth about CIA-backed Afghanistan night raids that killed countless civilians 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It is thought either a spark from a brazier or a spark from one of the girl's hobnail boots caused the explosion, which set the building alight. Tipton Catastrophe: Hundreds gather to mark centenary of factory blast 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z It is thought the fire was started by a spark from the hobnail boots the girls were wearing at the factory in Groveland Road. Exhibition marks 100 years since girls died in Tipton Catastrophe 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Most conspicuous of all are the glinting hobnails in the sole of the boot on the left. Why van Gogh saw so much in a simple pair of boots 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The old-school purists hammered in small spikes, called hobnails, through their boot soles. Chasing Denali: how four miners created one of climbing's greatest mysteries 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z This company carries a range of traditional Japanese iron teapots, including this one with a hobnail finish that’s available in three colors. Fresh tea gear for your next cuppa | Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Renovated, but with some of the original paving slabs that once echoed the hobnailed boots of Japan’s Imperial army. China and WWII’s “Sarajevo” moment 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z “We had antiquated equipment, armored cars that you could probably shoot arrows through. We wore uniforms made of bull’s wool and hobnailed boots.” The True Story of the Heroic Battle That Inspired the New Netflix Film The Siege of Jadotville 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z “I worked at the post office, and in the mornings I remember seeing him pull on his old hobnail boots,” Montgomery said. Louisville, forever changed by Muhammad Ali, prepares to bury him 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z And Whymper and Carrel accomplished the feat using hemp ropes and wearing hobnailed leather boots and tweeds. How the Matterhorn Created Modern Mountaineering 150 Years Ago 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z We are horrified by the idea that if we show someone the soft underbelly of our feelings then they will immediately dance across them in hobnailed boots. Tell your crush how you feel – it may be relevant information | Nell Frizell 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z A hobnail or a piece of wampum far exceeds it. Pat Buchanan Ignores The Underlying Reason Richard Nixon Was Forced To Resign 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Nostalgic fans, meanwhile, pined for a charismatic saviour, a man like Stanley Matthews, who could stand a foreign full-back on his head wearing hobnail boots. Is there room for mavericks in English sport? 2014-01-13T17:46:38Z The air is filled with the stamp of hobnail boots landing on concrete on the command of a sergeant major. How do you host a military spectacular? 2012-05-18T09:25:41Z That more than one of them had visited this very place, I was well convinced, since the footmarks bore evidence of at least two pairs of boots--one with great hobnails, and the other without. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Private Matellas said his worst moment so far was when he was performing one of his high kicks and the pompom on his hobnailed clogs went flying. Athens Journal: As Riots Rage, Greece?s Presidential Guard Doesn?t Budge 2012-04-03T01:27:42Z Presently the Rector returned to the house for his surplice; and ten minutes later, a tall and saintly figure, followed his hobnailed and bullet-headed choristers into the chancel. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z He was a short, thick set young chap, dressed in rough clothing, wearing hobnailed shoes. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z For a century and a half unconscious hobnails and pattens have ground the nameless stones above him, while mediocrities in marble230 have thronged our public haunts. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z We just stepped on their face with a hobnailed boot and broke their nose! Larry Munson, longtime Georgia announcer who pleaded for Dawgs to ?hunker down,? dies at 89 2011-11-21T04:13:15Z As the sound of his hobnailed tread died away the woolly dog advanced very stiffly to the hall door, and, with his eyes fixed on the departing visitor, licked his lips hungrily. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z I can tell them by the triangle mark, made with hobnails that he hammered into the heels of his shoes, after we decided to come on this trip. Fenn Masterson's Discovery or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise 2011-11-07T02:00:19.467Z The hobnail recommended above all others is the common, cheap soft-iron hobnail with corrugated head; carry a package in your tackle box. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z He was beginning to think that the bird had played him false again, when Master Partridge's hobnailed boots were heard clattering on the brass-treaded ladder. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z The ends of his wide trousers were clipped tight round his ankles, so that his heavy hobnailed boots were displayed in all their vast unshapeliness. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z It was a small man, with big steel spectacles, enormous hobnail boots, a huge pack, a blanket roll, and a coil of curious, soft rope around 195 his waist. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z The shepherd or carter took off his hat the moment he set his hobnailed boot down on the stone flags with a clatter. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Australia alone of all the countries in the world has lingual hobnails on its culture. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z The sole of his left boot was missing, together with the fearsome array of hobnails that used to play a tattoo upon the brass treads of the ladders. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Our talk is not of pointers or of setters; neither do we think it incumbent upon us to perambulate Princes Street in a shooting-jacket, or with the dissonance of hobnailed shoes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z They all wore high, heavy boots with hobnails, flannel shirts, khaki trousers, and carried knapsacks on their backs. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z They are large feet, shod in heavy hobnail boots. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z The green woollen stockings, in which he had personated the outlaw, still appeared upon his legs—with a pair of heavy hobnailed buskins on his feet. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z His hobnailed boot did him the instant service of bringing his assailant down on one knee. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Fortunately he escaped each time with nothing more serious than a few bruises, and that night he drove a number of hobnails into the soles of his boots. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z The prime minister ratcheted up his attack in the interview, accusing them of using "hobnailed boot justice that sweeps away the rights of the person". I may be sinner but my foes want coup: Berlusconi 2011-02-11T12:30:29Z Those slim-legged little folks could hardly walk, weighted with several pounds of heavy hobnailed shoes, and they complained bitterly at this requirement. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The hobnails told who was the traitor that had guided them thither. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Then the first speaker made as if he were going to kick the Englishman in the head with his big hobnailed boot. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z The voices of a fiddle and a concertina, combined, were uttering a polka with shrill and hideous fluency, to which the scraping and stamping of hobnailed boots made a ponderous bass accompaniment. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z And this behaviour was heightened rather than depressed when I recollected that such an attire would consort very aptly with the hobnailed appearance of the bridegroom. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Only the tramp of many hobnailed boots disclosed their march through the village. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The third—he who wore the hobnailed shoes—had met these on their coming out; and afterwards walked along with them to the front—where the footmarks were lost among the hoof-prints of the horses. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The clerks in the outer office tittered, as poor Adam, with his heavy hobnailed shoes, tramped through the midst of them. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Though she had "filled out" considerably since we last saw her, she was anything but a hobnailed, masculine woman. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Without further parley he marched rapidly down the aisle, cloak flying, hobnailed shoes waking desecrating echoes. Glories of Spain He never blushed for his pack or his hobnailed shoes. Tony Butler One set had been made by hobnailed shoes. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z For the same reason, after freeing Balaam, his first action was to pull off the telltale boots and replace them with the smallest pair of hobnailed miner’s shoes in the tent. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus The first at Yatung, six miles below the pass, is a senseless obstruction, and any able-bodied Tommy with hobnailed boots might very easily kick it down. The Unveiling of Lhasa In case of smooth rocks, however, your hobnails are positively dangerous, as they slide from under you with all the vicious force and suddenness of unaccustomed skates. Camp and Trail Kinnison knew that combat officers did not wear hobnails, and usually carried binoculars. Triplanetary At that moment he heard hobnailed boots strike the surface of the road. Dave Dawson at Dunkirk He knocked that man off the counter at the first pass and climbed him with his hobnails as he lay on the floor. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Before Bower could recover his balance, for his hobnails caused him to slip on the tiled floor, Spencer was halfway across the inner hall, and approaching the elevator. The Silent Barrier If he adds big hobnails to make tracks with, he is sure of himself. Camp and Trail The superintendent was again interrupted by the rasping of hobnailed shoes on the office floor and the startled creak of the office railing as a large, loose-jointed man leaned heavily against it. The Blue Goose He heard the muffled sounds of hobnailed boots marching along in the street outside, and the clanking sound of tank and scout car tractor treads on the stones. Dave Dawson at Dunkirk He wanted to hurt her since she had walked over him, metaphorically, with hobnailed boots. Banked Fires Under cover of the wreath she felt again, and made sure the corpse was wearing a pair of hobnailed boots. The Weans at Rowallan A medium weight boot, of medium height, with medium heavy soles armed only with the small Hungarian hobnail is about the proper thing. Camp and Trail The old man opened one of his barn doors, revealing a floor littered with straw and a fringe of hobnailed American boots. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" He came in with his eternal green jacket, short breeches and rough manners, making the floor tremble under his hobnailed boots. The Grandee There was one new track: the man with the hobnailed boots had turned this way, but there was no other sign of recent passage. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Slush, slog! went the heavy hobnailed shoes slithering through the mud and water of the roads. Aces Up It was some years earlier that Chatham declared that he would not allow the American colonies to manufacture even one hobnail for themselves. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations With all soldiers wearing hobnailed boots, the roads were full of those sharp bits of metal which had caused serious losses of horseflesh through lameness and blood poisoning. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" The cruelty germ develops first, and cats, dogs, donkeys, smaller brothers, and even babies are made to feel the superior physical strength of the early wearer of hobnails. Byways of Ghost-Land One was made by a pair of wheels and the feet of a horse; the other by a pair of large, hobnailed shoes. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts The downstairs front door opened; heavy hobnail shoes sounded on the stairs. Aces Up The acolytes were small peasant boys, and whenever they knelt down they turned toward the congregation prodigious boot-soles studded with a surprising array of shiny hobnails. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone Their passing in the darkness was accompanied by the sound of the unhastened tread of many hobnailed boots. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" He wore an old soft hat and rough blouse, his trousers being tucked into a pair of heavy, hobnailed boots that reached to his knees. The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West Thirty yards up the hill the ribbed Dunlops had wiped out the side of a hobnailed impression. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts They did not wear moccasins after the fashion of trappers, but heavy, knee-high, hobnailed boots. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia The soles are shod with hobnails, but the boot is not very heavy. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone Their hobnailed soles and steel plated heels ring on the stone flags. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" The new men took their posts without words while the relieved detail turned down a long corridor that for a moment echoed with the clatter of hobnailed boots on stone. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 It disappeared on a strip of turf, and they slipped back at once to the last spot of which they could be sure—a soft patch of earth where hobnail marks were fresh and clear. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts It is easier to climb mountains in hobnailed shoes than in smooth-soled ones. Common Science In lieu of them, three square-headed hobnails had been driven into the center of the seam holding the patch of leather to the under part of the instep, or palm of the foot. The Plunderer The hobnail sole of his shoe had been torn off and he was trying to fasten it back on with a combination of straps. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" To such hobnails must the fair Rosalind say: “I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me.” The Strollers His whole strength had gone to his hands, that were pulling at the latch, and into his feet, that were eating into the wood of the door with the hobnails on his boots. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore After the continued climbing of the day, walking was a delicious rest, and forward we pressed with considerable speed, our hobnails giving us firm footing on the glittering glacial surface. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers The Alpini wear a good hobnailed boot for ordinary service, but for work on the ice the heel of the boot is taken off, and an iron clamp with ice nails substituted. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War After I had had some tea, and thought of leaving, a hobnail was discovered in the tyre of Tomkin's bicycle. Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling The mud from recent rains covered our leggings and our heavy hobnail shoes. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man Look here, Daisy," said Preston—"don't you turn into a masculine, muscular woman, that can walk her twenty miles and wear hobnailed shoes—like the Yankees you are among. Daisy Our walking shoes were in excellent condition, the hobnails firm and new. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers He wore hobnailed shoes and carried a stout cudgel. Fantômas There were the bodies of three people—a woman, a child and a laborer with hobnailed shoes. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin There were marks enough when the police came to investigate, but they were the marks made by a twelve-stone man in hobnail boots, who had scrambled into, and out of, the pond. The Wonder A man named Rogerson was the first to enter, and he went pounding up the winding stone steps in his heavy hobnailed boots, followed by Tiddler, Dennis having to content himself with third place. With Haig on the Somme As he came slowly down from crack to crack, I heard his hobnailed shoes grating on the granite; presently they appeared dangling from the eaves above my head. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers “You used to gamble yourself; you were pretty tough, and you oughtn’t to walk up my back with hobnailed boots.” Northern Lights Coarse, hobnailed boots stick out from the blankets, and sometimes the heaps, which are men, moan or are silent. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse She took a malicious pleasure in drawing out her hobnailed admirer on the interesting subject of sheep-rot. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 They had no hobnails, and their broken, wet moccasins slipped all over those slick round stones. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri I would have let them jump on my chest with their hobnailed boots first! The Bill-Toppers We knew them to be Germans by the clank of the hobnailed boots which all our guards had worn. 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 I made it convenient to pause before Berry and Roger's show of jewels, and he stopped, too, swaying there gravely, balanced now on hobnail heel, now on toe. The Reckoning Now the advisers of the crown fix their eyes on that mole; but they turn their heads away from the hobnailed shoes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 On the floor, no matter how carefully the office occupants scrape their hobnails before entering, there is always a thin coating of mud. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 But perhaps the "dates of the kings" have as much to do with theology as the hobnails of the murderous puddler with evil.' The House of Souls He threw a blanket over the bed, shoved the logs in the fireplace with his hobnailed boots until the sparks whirled upward, and the little flames began to rustle and snap. Lorraine A romance Trotter still wore tights, with hobnailed boots to walk in and a rusty billycock hat for shelter to his head. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The body, mutilated as it was, had two distinguishing marks; a mole on the brow, and a pair of hobnailed shoes on the feet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 "On behalf of the accused," said he, "I admit the suicide of some person unknown, wearing heavy hobnailed shoes; probably one of the lower order of people." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 McAlpin in violent protest, scratched the gravel with his hobnailed shoes: "I'll ask you: Am I responsible for the pressure, or the water company?" Laramie Holds the Range He wore a smock, high brown leather gaiters reaching almost to his thighs, and very thick hobnailed boots. Our Frank and other stories "I have seen the marks of many heavy hobnailed shoes in the dust of this place; and some of the prints were very fresh," came the answer. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot What business has he to be trampling among our borders and crushing our flowers with his stupid hobnails? Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation "Get her to swear to those hobnailed shoes," said he, "and we shall shake them." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Nothing much worse than had already happened could befall him, and after brief temptation he kicked off his unlaced hobnails and stole downstairs. Despair's Last Journey We were not roped together like mountain climbers in the Swiss or Tyrolean Alps; we got the real thrills by using our own hands and feet without ice pick, staff or hobnailed shoes. The Black Wolf Pack Two of them wore shoes with hobnails just as you see on this old cast-off shoe here. Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot It is made by a boot which has got hobnails and a horseshoe heel, and a piece of that heel has been broken off. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes Cries of "Order!" and "Silence!" ensued; and were followed by murmurs, coughs, and sneezes, in the crowd, with a considerable shuffling of hobnailed shoes on the pavement. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Some polished boots to a mirror-like shine not forgetting to blacken the soles and count the hobnails before metal polishing them; others pressed trousers and brushed the uniform of our prot�g�.�� Coming of Age: 1939-1946 After another cautious look round, the two advanced with extreme care—each step so carefully taken that the hobnails fell like rose-leaves on the carpet. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories You have to scramble nearly straight up among the rocks on each side of the waterfall, and if one of my hobnails went off, I’m certain half a dozen did. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life He made a scrape, and clattered away with his hobnailed shoes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 It came from the ladder; the sound of Eli's hobnailed boots, rung upon rung, as he climbed aloft towards the adit, to fasten the tackle there. Major Vigoureux If you will scrutinize the ground you will see the imprint of their hobnailed boots. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers At the next table, a squad of yokels just in from the oberland, in their short jackets and their hobnailed boots. Europe After 8:15 Of course I had to shell out, as my boots were worth more than the whole bill—although my bootmaker has taken me in pretty well over the hobnails. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Presently he heard her singing above the clatter of kitchenware and the scuffling of the men with their heavy, hobnailed shoes. The White Desert And those who did had worn their hobnailed boots, sufficient to take the spring out of any one's feet. The Cross-Cut I thought of the shiny hobnails on the runners' boots, and drew my legs up closer. Winning a Cause World War Stories It was forcibly expressed by Lord North in the declaration that "not a hobnail should be made in the American colonies." The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government The closing of a rear door and the resounding tread of a pair of hobnailed boots on the lower floor told him that Pitman had entered the house and was going to bed. Dixie Hart How could she know him, he thought bitterly, in the rough blue blouse and coarse clothing and heavy hobnail boots of a Swiss peasant? Cobwebs and Cables The condition of the bones showed they had not been long deposited; in fact, with one skeleton were hobnailed leather shoes, with the bones of the feet still in them. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 I recollect seeing the shiny hobnails and the horseshoe of steel on the runners' boots as I crawled back past them to take the lead. Winning a Cause World War Stories A few of the men were resting their feet, having taken off their heavy hobnailed boots, and were sitting in their woolen socks. The Belgians to the Front He lay now in bed with that hobnailed liver, and the Doctor said it was only a question of days. Wandering Heath Some were torn into little bits and scattered over the room, others were ground into the floor by hobnails in heavy boot heels. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis "Get off my clothes this instant, you hobnailed son of a something-or-other!" News from the Duchy But thaw came on, so that there was no sliding, and then the young roughs amused themselves with stamping holes in the soft ice with their hobnailed heels. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Rand suspected that he was mentally kicking himself with hobnailed boots for his premature act. Murder in the Gunroom Sergeant Fugler, the best marksman in the Company, was a hard drinker, with a hobnailed liver. Wandering Heath Some of them squeaked; and the peregrinations of the orderly thus afflicted were perhaps more vexatious to the ear of a nervous patient at night than even the clatter of honest hobnails. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital Course, she don't swing the hammer quite so open when the folks get back, for Vee ain't one you can walk on with hobnails and get away with it. Wilt Thou Torchy But boys of an age when their parents found meals and hobnailed boots for them whether they behaved well or ill, were able to display independence in its roughest form. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys We ran down the road beyond the village and saw him in the distance dancing on an old Turk's bare feet with hobnailed boots, alternating this amusement with cuffs on the face. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia A gumshoe outlasts a hobnailed sole and a rubber tube full of air is better than a steel tire. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries The soles are half-inch, and they are reenforced by an array of hobnails. Private Peat "Pete Grimes did that with his hobnail, cowhide boots!" said Eddy, sternly. Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple In the earth above the shore were plainly to be seen the tracks of two men wearing hobnailed boots. Troop One of the Labrador His lordship was in the garden, where Woodward found him in hobnailed shoes, digging himself into what he called his daily perspirations. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One You first have your feet shod with a preparation of nearly one hundred double-pointed hobnails driven into the heels and soles. Among the Forces These fellos will eat anything from the hobnails out of your shoes to a bag of Bull. "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" The marble underfoot bore the imprint of many shoes and rubbers and hobnails, of all sizes and—mayhap—of all nations. A Splendid Hazard None of them ever wore soled boots that would admit of hobnails. Troop One of the Labrador And, without removing his hobnails, or his corduroys, he sprang lightly into the Oxbridge racing-boat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 It seems a thousand pities that even college students rush into the presence of the Burning Bush in hobnailed shoes, shouting forth the college yell as they go. The Reconstructed School The puppy was still cowering on the ground in the midst of them: one or two tried to relieve the tension of their feelings by kicking him in the belly with their hobnail boots. The Hill of Dreams Then once a year the Bishop came—came in knee-breeches, hobnailed shoes, and shovel hat, and the little church was decked with greens. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women The red-coated driver pulled in on the tavern side, and men in neckerchiefs, hobnailed shoes, blue woolen stockings and knee-breeches made fussy haste to water the horses. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors No man is mad enough to set out along a tight-rope in hobnailed boots with out previous practice. The Pleasures of Ignorance They laboriously copied what they saw in the fields—grey days, hobnailed boots and the rest of it. Evelyn Innes On his feet will be a pair of strong sandals, of which the thick soles are studded with hobnails. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul My aunt and Miss Browne had tied huge green veils over their cork helmets, and were clumping about in tremendous hobnailed boots. Spanish Doubloons The other showed fight, kicking our friend liberally about the shins, with hobnailed boots which did, most confoundly, hurt. Deadham Hard I turned into a deep, wide trench whose floor had been trodden into a slop of cheesy, brown mire which clung to the big hobnailed boots of the soldiers. A Volunteer Poilu The footsteps were light, too—light and hurried, and not to be associated with hobnailed boots. True Tilda Next moment there comes a rush of feet in the darkness, followed by a metallic clang, as of hobnailed boots on metal. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand One of the men trod on Kate's foot with his hobnailed shoe and gave an inarticulate grunt by way of apology. The Precipice There should be hobnailed shoes—the nails many and small, not few and large; and also moccasins or rubber-soled shoes; and light, flexible leggings. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout copper, studded with hobnails. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Her tremendous, flabby, stockingless ankles bulged over her unlaced hobnailed boots; her dress was torn and unbuttoned at the throat, displaying one of the dirtiest necks I have seen. My Brilliant Career But, pointing to their own well-made hobnailed boots, they added, "Never in thin rubber soles like yours." In the Claws of the German Eagle And shoes, and--" "Well, you can leave the shoes out, and get some hobnails and put them on the soles of any good heavy shoes. The Half-Back The clumping of hobnailed boots on the gravel outside proclaimed the approach of Manning. The Mysterious Affair at Styles Orman also wore a pair of stout hobnail boots, and had a watch and chain. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine My hobnailed boots slipped on the floor, and I steadied myself on the wall, which seemed to be of undressed stone. Mr. Standfast Gale ran to his room, put on hobnailed boots, filled a canteen, and hurried back to the corral. Desert Gold “That is all very true,” said the Republican Form of Government, putting on its hobnail shoes; “but consider how I thrill you every Fourth of July.” Fantastic Fables His hobnail shoes pounding upon the cobbles of the courtyard echoed among the angles of the lofty walls. The Mad King The floor was seemingly inches deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked. Dracula Clearly the policeman took me for an innocent pedestrian, probably the guest of some moorland shooting-box, with my brown face and rough tweeds and hobnailed shoes. Mr. Standfast Great bearded workmen were as playful as young boys, clumping along in their hobnailed boots. L'Assommoir The muleteer's hobnailed shoes, which grated among the pebbles, could be heard very near them. The Saint We can tell how many months that man in the foreground has worn those dreadful hobnailed boots; we can count the nails, and we notice that two or three are missing. Modern Painting The sudden flooding of light into the place and the rush of hobnailed shoes on the stairs recalled even the gambler's scattered senses. The Young Engineers in Arizona Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand Nowadays, a young man walks into his mother's room with hobnailed high-lows, and a wideawake on his head; and instead of making her a bow, puffs a cigar into her face. The Virginians The stone threshold of his cottage is worn away with his hobnailed footsteps, shuffling over it from the reign of the first Plantagenet to that of Victoria. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches In the two just beyond, at the next door, how the delicate, slender buttoned kids leaned over, floppingly, to rest on the coarse, yet strong, hobnailed clumpers! In and out of Three Normady Inns Bargees not unfrequently scuffle with hobnailed shoes through the passages, and go in and out, leaving behind them a smell of tobacco, to which the denizens of the place are not unaccustomed. The Three Clerks Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots. Mike These beasts are all clodhoppers, and their feet are hobnailed boots. Concerning Animals and Other Matters Before going out he had put on his canvas shooting coat and a pair of hobnailed leather hunting boots, laced for a little distance at the front and sides. The Claim Jumpers A wretched hobnailed chuff, whose recreation is reading of almanacks; and felicity, foul weather. Character Writings of the 17th Century Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots. Mike and Psmith I shall have to fill the soles of them full of hobnails presently. Gutta-Percha Willie A caped coat, fastened to the throat, hung over the short kilt skirt, and rough gaiters buttoned down over a wonderful little pair of hobnailed boots. In the Quarter Between times he found hobnails much inclined to click against unforeseen stones. The Claim Jumpers He woke up gradually, the warm comfort of sleep giving place slowly to the stiffness of his uncomfortable position with the hobnails of a boot from the back of a pack sticking into his shoulder. Three Soldiers He felt their hobnailed heels bite into his back; then his head felt queer, and he closed his eyes. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism The set angry frown was the only distinguishing mark—like the dents on a penny made by a hobnail boot, by which it can be known from twenty otherwise precisely similar. The Life of the Fields There was a complete boot-mending outfit which was put to a good deal of use, for the weathered rocks cut the soles of our boots and knocked out the hobnails. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 His clothes were of fustian and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustianed peasantry. Stories by English Authors: England One's shoes must be strong and heavy, and have pointed hobnails in them. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 "But, Eve dear, never have we discovered in any dead and flattened leaf the imprint of hobnails,—let alone the imprint of a human foot." In Secret There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar, and Mrs. Hall had very reluctantly to leave the rest of his soliloquy. The Invisible Man Kirby strode to him; before other hands could come to Rouletta's assistance and bear him out of reach he twice buried his heavy hobnailed boot in the prostrate figure. The Winds of Chance Charge of buckshot in left lung; diaphragm suffused; heart wanting-finger marks in that vicinity; traces of hobnails outside. The Fiend's Delight The descent is two leagues, but steep and rough as O * * * * father's face, over which, you know, the devil walked with hobnails in his shoes. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 There lay Tom; hobnail Tom! a bacon- munching, reckless, beer-swilling animal! and yet a man; a dear brave human heart notwithstanding; capable of devotion and unselfishness. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 1 Yes, with rage, when it dawned on him that the rump of an officer and nobleman had been bust in by the hobnailed socks of a poor private! Under Fire: the story of a squad He very soon shattered any such illusion by appropriating the remainder of her fortune and kicking her into the factory with hobnailed boots. The Fortunate Youth Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures For the Duke, of course, like all dukes, was agricultural from his Norfolk jacket to his hobnailed boots. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich The one thing about him that disturbed Polly was his manner towards his wife: he was savagely ironic with her, and trampled hobnailed on her timid opinions. Australia Felix Feet swayed about me, and some hobnailed miner kicked my ankle and went stumbling. In the Days of the Comet As she went up the stairs one shopman winked at the other and came across with a pair of hobnailed boots in his hand. Jonah The coarse and roughly-tanned, uncared-for high boots with huge hobnails were overlapped by great baggy trousers. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The soles were five-eighths of an inch thick, covered with hobnails, and were as hard and inflexible and almost as heavy as iron. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The marks of hobnailed boots patterned the floor; loose mud, and crumbs from meals, had been swept into corners or under the stretcher-bed; while commodities that had overflowed the shop added to the disorder. Australia Felix He wears a three-cornered hat, a large, white leather apron, hobnailed shoes and a stout stick. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography No man is a match for a woman, except with a poker and a pair of hobnailed boots. Man and Superman The rhythmic music is fascinating, and one always feels out of place standing stiff legged in heavy, hobnailed shoes among the pulsating, rhythmic crowd. The Bontoc Igorot But the worst of all were the dreadful hobnailed boots: the leather of the uppers of these was an eighth of an inch thick, and very stiff. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Do you suppose WE care for the opinion of that hobnailed lout of a Paris? Roundabout Papers He approached the fire, and sat down to warm himself, taking care not to set his hobnailed shoes on the grandeur of the little hearthrug. Sir Gibbie He had changed his uniform for a goatskin, wore hobnailed shoes, a belt full of pistols, and carried a heavy carbine. The Chouans Out of those dark red bits of wood—some of them bearing the imprints of hobnails—Cutty constructed the scene. The Drums of Jeopardy He stepped from the door with his, head high and his heart lighter, and when his hobnailed shoe clinked on the fallen hammer he kicked it spinning from his path. The Seventh Man What were his hobnails that they should mar the pavement of that delicate Temple? The Works of Max Beerbohm Here, too, are the marks of his hobnails. Mystery of the Yellow Room But there was no room for that, for there was exactly the print of an Englishman's hobnailed shoe,—the heavy heel, the prints of the heads of the nails. The Brick Moon and Other Stories He was accustomed to the use of steel and the hobnails on his boots. The Drums of Jeopardy Upon arriving at the shop he found the man with cap over one ear, broad trousers like a mameluke's, hobnailed boots and various pennants and rosettes fastened to the lapels of his jacket. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse One day, after holding forth for some time in Swahili, she found that she had been standing hobnailed on one of the boy's feet. The Land of Footprints Convict coloured stockings and vast hobnail boots finished him below, and all his luggage was a borrowed rucksac that he had tied askew. The New Machiavelli The rough flagged floor, “all worn and broken with the hobnailed boots of generations of ringers,” remains undisturbed. The Life of John Bunyan |
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