How To Use Cobble In A Sentence
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He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
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The group had cobbled together a few decent songs.
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Even if an agreement is cobbled together it will not please everyone.
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You can walk the cobbled streets, visit the house where they lived and take a peep inside the tiny garden room where they studied.
The Sun
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Life in the little house behind the cobbler's shop was not calm.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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A delicious dinner of ham, fried potatoes, hot corn bread, fresh butter, wild bee honey, and huckleberry cobbler is served.
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More than one captain made up his mind then and there that his "cobble" or his "mule," as they term the different classes of boats, would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed.
Dracula
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Chefs zigzag in formation over the cobbles, disappearing through a warren of doors with bread baskets and trays of millefeuille.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid.
Excommunicated from the Ummah?
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Were here, announced Jace as the smooth roll of wheels over pavement turned to the jounce of cobblestones.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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He shows me tenrecs in cardboard boxes, housed there temporarily while he cobbles together still more terraria.
The Song of The Dodo
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Some, no doubt, find this pretentious old cobblers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside the cobblelock forecourt to the front of the house is bordered by plants and shrubs and has plenty of space for offstreet parking.
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Stepping out onto the cobbles in front of the steps, the men found themselves at the center of a loose circle of guardsman.
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We pushed past the steward, re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building.
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You can glimpse the sea from the rear cobbled courtyard garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was jigging about on the cobble stone path, partly because I was excited at seeing my new house for the first time, but mainly because it was mid January and, quite frankly, flipping cold!
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But cobblers and laundry owners could be in trouble, and tobacco products should be avoided altogether.
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This was a wide, cobbled square, with the old mounting-block at its centre, and on two sides the stable doors and the archways of the coach-house.
Rose cottage
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A bundle of straw for packing lies on the cobbles.
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But next day when the cobbler ventured to criticise the legs, the painter came forth from his hiding-place and recommended the cobbler to stick to the shoes -- advice which in the words of the Latin version of the story also has been adopted as a proverb, _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_ ( "Let not the shoemaker overstep his last").
Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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If I were to cobble together a list of summer trash the 1st thing I would do is disqualify anything that shows up your standard school reading list.
Archive 2009-08-01
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For dessert, we ordered a peach and huckleberry cobbler with vanilla gelato and four spoons.
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Large cobble - sized clasts of sandstone, up to 250 mm diameter, in the conglomerates contain fractures with void infilling by matrix, indicating cataclastic deformation before lithification.
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It was pitch black, with snow and slush dotting the cobblestone paths.
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Our hotel with its pleasant garden and the fine shops -- (where it seems you can still buy every fascinating thing from newest jewellery and oldest curiosities, to Amiens 'special "_roc_" chocolates) -- the long, arboured boulevards, the cobbled streets, the quaint blue and pink houses of the suburbs, and the poplar-lined walk by the Somme, all, all have the friendliest air!
Everyman's Land
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Until then I shall content myself with all those fruit-based American puddings such as cobblers and crisps.
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He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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Any seamster or cobbler or tailor or artificer of any trade keeps us shut up in prison for the luxurious and wanton pleasures of the clergy.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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These guys talk an awful load of old cobblers.
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She pretended to trip on a cobblestone and feigned a sprain.
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Along the way the potholes got filled, the cobbles were nicely asphalted, the hoardings were stripped of their multi-layered messages, and the chill damp was replaced with warmth and light.
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Does it appear to be a myth because other foodstuffs are preventing any noticeable beneficial change from abstaining from eating chocolate or is it all a load of cobblers?
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In cross-section, the deposits consist of unsorted pebbles, cobbles, and boulders in a matrix of fine-grained debris.
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They dig latrines, cobble together privies and chicken coops, and struggle to build cabins from piles of pine logs.
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Once upon a time Monarchs regularly refused dissolutions as they tried to cobble together the best available Government from the volatile politics of the time.
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It was a nice road with old brick and stone buildings with cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
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It is a self-serving load of old cobblers.
Times, Sunday Times
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They consist of particulate rocks that vary in size from sand to pebbles and cobbles.
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In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds.
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We had the candles, hatters, cobblers and bakers representing the strong trades in Rathkeale in the 19th century.
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If we don't have room for a glover, blacksmith, steamfitter, cobbler, hooper, chimney sweep and Balkan restaurant, what good are we?
Archive 2006-10-01
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Whether you serve a fruity deep-dish cobbler draped with a homemade pastry crust or a lush pumpkin cheesecake, keep the servings small.
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Why should you pay iTunes for a copywrite hobbled copy of music when you can get a free, uncobbled one.
Archive 2004-09-01
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It has 160 square metres of living space and is accessed through high timber gates, with a cobble forecourt leading to the front door.
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Suddenly the wooded hillsides are ribbed with vines and the cobbled quays of Jarnac and Cognac crowded with the merchant warehouses of great cognac-makers like Courvoisier, Hine, Martell and Otard.
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A typical example is minced beef cobbler, braised lambs' liver and onions, stuffed tomatoes, seafood flan salad or mixed side salad - all at a reasonable price.
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Cobbler with Blue Bell ice cream sounds like a fitting capper.
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For the cobbler topping, sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl and add 50g of sugar and the lemon zest.
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The women navigate cobblestones and broken pavements on stilettos without breaking stride.
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I don't know if it would be properly called a cobbler, but I sliced up peaches, topped them with a mixture of butter, oats and brown sugar and then baked it.
Oh what a beautiful ... something or other
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Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
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Let the cobbler stick to his last.
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Both lead to a cobblelock patio area and a winding path through the long narrow garden, which is planted with flowers and shrubs and features some attractive rose trestles.
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Hastily I tossed the boy his fare, and his horses trotted off down the cobbled road.
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In the meantime, he has cobbled together a portfolio of other opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years later I found it, a tiny pub tucked into a cobbled alley beside a large inn.
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I even stopped in the cobblers to say hello to the shoemaker's wife, and promised to buy my next pair of shoes from them.
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The club's success has prompted many football fans to search their atlases for this cobblestoned city in northern Portugal, and to realize that in the flashy, money-soaked world of modern football, there's still room for a team built on old-style discipline, a strong work-rate and stout defense.
How Braga Climbed a Mountain
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But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco.
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Then, too, the roads were of the kind called _pavé_; that is, paved with what we know as cobble-stones or Belgian blocks.
The Emma Gees
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The original pine floors and knotted wood panelling both have a rich patina of time, and we love the steep staircase and the cobbled courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the following day Cobblers Cove is filled from end to end with tanned Sydneysiders, wearing as few clothes as the Aboriginals when Captain Cook first sailed in.
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This race brings together elite Canadian and international cyclists for a criterium race through the cobblestone streets of Gastown, an historical downtown district.
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My neighbour ingeniously cobbled together a plant doing the same job for around $10,000, one eighteenth of that.
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From 1898 until he died in 1927, he anatomized Old Paris right down to the doorknobs -- the book is the exact size of a Parisian cobblestone -- but as arranged, neighborhood by neighborhood, the photos comprise one of the great works of art of the last two centuries.
All I Want For Christmas...
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The fog whirled and eddied around her as she stepped out into the cobblestone street.
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The cobbler said a little prayer, and then they began to eat -- first of oat-cakes, baked by the old woman, then of loaf-breid, as they called it.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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Nevertheless, before I knew what I was doing, I was scrambling down the ladder and running over the cobblestones of the road.
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On a lunch-time it's never been easier to walk up the Shambles and its lying-in-wait cobbles since the early hours of the morning when balance aforethought may have been slightly influenced by a few tipsy tinctures.
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The group had cobbled together a few decent songs.
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The majority of the Jewish men in Amran work in trade and vocational jobs such as cobblers or silversmiths.
Yemeni Jews need to be rescued....
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Revenge is a film barren of much development, as it feels like nothing more than a bunch of independent scenes cobbled together.
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The cobbles were cool on my feet - I had not even put on sandals for fear of being heard creeping across the marble floor of my home.
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The replacement may well be cobbled together with some wire and a bit of imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cobbles are clogged with rose petals.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a mechanics' union campaigned for workingmen's interests in 1828, it was a signal advance for cobblers and their kind.
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This just feels like when I eat my grandmother's peach cobbler.
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That standard, incidentally, is of those arbitrary figures that bears no relation to any real threat, and has been cobbled from the usual junk science which the EU commission so loves.
Surely we should be debating this?
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Most days the cobbled streets and piazzas of the town are chock-full of delivery vans, family Fiats and boy racers gunning their small-engined Vespas.
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Yes, it's absolute cobblers, a self-parodying mash-up of fairytale and pop culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two-part docu-drama was filmed in the village last year, locations shots taken in the parsonage and on the cobbled streets.
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ITV1 soap would be killed and injured as the viaduct featured in the opening credits collapses - sending a tram careering on to the famous cobbles.
The Sun
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I always figured Triathlon was a clever spambot, as the posts lack coherence and seem to be more cobbled together with words than written.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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In addition to the palace, Granada gives off the air of a ‘real’ Spanish city with cobblestone streets, bullfighting arenas and winding streets.
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The course has steep hills, and the roads sweep wide, then narrow to cobblestones.
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From what he remembered of Alston it was a nice little town, built on a steep hill with partly cobbled streets.
LOST SUMMER
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They dig latrines, cobble together privies and chicken coops, and struggle to build cabins from piles of pine logs.
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The sound of the wooden tumbrel on a cobbled street was south of the Common now, the smell of rain already coming in through the windows.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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A girl is riding a bicycle down the cobbled streets of Cambridge - hair flying, gown billowing out behind her.
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A cobbler is not unlike a pie, but with a very thick layer - or individual blobs - of buttery sweet pastry on top of the fruit.
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In the cobbled backstreets mustachioed old men in tweed jackets and gaiters drive decorated carts at breakneck speeds.
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In the distance he could hear a woman's heels catching on the cobbles as she ran to keep an appointment.
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The PR team cobbled together the standard departure boilerplate.
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Whenever the old Manila is revisited, a lot of memories come to fore-from colonial buildings of brick, adobe, kamagong and capiz to horse-drawn calesas on cobblestone streets.
Undefined
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signboard," men sat and talked of their various trades, the cobbler, for instance, who is carved on the Cathedral stalls, with the clog-maker, and the wool-comber, and the carpenter, all met and gossiped of their latest piece of profitable business, while the lawyers discussed the never-ending question of the Privilège de St. Romain with some learned clerk over their "vin blanc d'Anjou.
The Story of Rouen
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At many construction sites along the highway, Ku and thousands of workers used cobbles, which are densely packed in gabions, to build firm and solid embankments.
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The route tackles many of the cobblestones and bergs featured in the Tour of Flanders, including a triple passage over a new sector at Haaghoek.
Euro racing this week: Belgian classics season opens
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At 0300 hours the mist had lifted and the yellow light from the gas lamps cast a ghostly radiance that was reflected from the wet road cobbles.
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I'm not contractually obliged to do cobblers, which is how the comedy world - which is so tightly managed in this country - works.
The Guardian World News
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From the length of the Royal Mile runs a spider's web of cobbled alleyways, ancient courtyards and wynds.
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Continue your stroll to supper along this narrow cobbled lane, where paintings and sculptures by local artists fill the doorways.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.
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If a gorgeous pile of tiny purple potatoes presents itself to her at a farmer's market, she will come home and whip up a purple potato salad garnished with herbs from her garden and serve it with cold roasted Moroccan chicken and some kind of lemony orzo and a stone fruit cobbler into which she has tossed some blackberries that looked good to her: a delicious meal created on the fly with the confidence of an excellent cook who no longer particularly needs a recipe.
One For The Table: Maybe It's in the DNA
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There was no sound except for the rumbling thunder and the splash of water on the city's cobbled streets.
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The crowd was heard to be saying, ‘What a load of cobblers.’
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You can spend your day meandering through the maze-like cobbled paths that are lined with picturesque Venetian-style houses painted in rainbow pastels.
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A bundle of straw for packing lies on the cobbles.
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Wilshere came striding back up the cobbled path, whacking his boot with his crop.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Dance themes deal with relations between men and women as well as particular occupations such as the dances of reapers, cobblers, coopers, and smiths.
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Now, my legs can't manage cobbled streets, and my heart responds badly to a sudden and immoderate intake of alcohol.
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The old cobbler who had been mending shoes in the doorway of a building was unexpectedly replaced by a stranger.
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Then I climbed the long street over the rock and cobble stones between walls half green with pellitory, houses with high gables and rough wooden balconies where geraniums shone in the shadow, and from which the trailing plants hung low in that supreme luxuriance which is the beginning of their death.
Two Summers in Guyenne
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These are set around a pretty cobbled courtyard with gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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After bumping Cobble and arguing with him over a call, Robinson called the ump “a no-good human being” and drew a three-game suspension.
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults
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So we walk through the utterly captivating townlet of Chartres, with its cobbled lanes, old maisons, Italian style piazzas, haute shops and the Eure flowing gently, even a little murkily, at the base of the town.
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Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
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The carriage shuddered and began to roll forward, clattering over the cobblestones.
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A cobbler shop and a foot clinic may seem like unpromising settings in which to learn about pleasure.
Christianity Today
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Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull.
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The food is often some concoction of lamb, frequently accompanied by rice, sweet potatoes, warm bread, and finished with a desert such as plumb cobbler with cream.
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The walls shone with rainwater trailing through the grime and the ground was thick with mud between the uneven cobblestones.
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Snow still lay thickly over the forest, but had been cleared from the cobbled road which weaved its way down through the trees.
The Crossing-Place
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In this tryptic, I find the lampoonery of the physical deformation inherent to both the slight-statured, fat-footed Frodo and the EPO-swilling, peglegged pirate in the first 2 images to be apt signifiers of his poorly cobbled performances and subsequent attempts at mea culpa.
The BSNYC Absentee Art Exhibition (Part II)
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The cobbler's work became easier with Lyman Reed Blake's invention of a sewing machine that sewed the soles of shoes to their upper parts in 1858.
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One other thing about cobblers is that it doesn’t usually matter whether you are dealing with fresh or frozen fruit, and both will give you great results, making cobblers a good choice year-round.
Baking Bites » Print » Cherry Cornmeal Cobbler
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The problem is that this still feels like a bunch of stars cobbled together rather than a cohesive team.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old cobblers all round.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the meantime, he has cobbled together a portfolio of other opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
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She cobbled together a tent from a few pieces of string and a sheet.
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Orthoclase occurred as remnant phenocrysts in a groundmass of chloritic material resulting from alteration of iron-rich felsite cobbles.
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From there, a grid of cobbled streets march off into the middle distance.
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The route is about 900 metres long and is paved with brick and cobblestone.
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The benches outside, in a little cobbled suntrap, are the perfect place to meet and greet your neighbours as they slowly wake up on a Sunday afternoon.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Years later I found it, a tiny pub tucked into a cobbled alley beside a large inn.
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We soon get lost in the medieval cobbled streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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I ran my finger over the star, absently taking in the circular shape of the town, its narrow streets a remnant of an older time, with cobblestones and horse-drawn carriages, candled lanterns and muddy gutters.
Brush of Darkness
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You sit at sky-blue tables on lawned or cobbled terraces there's a covered pavilion for wet days; the food is fresh, hearty and cooked to order by farmer's wife Nikki Exton – who manages to juggle gardening with lambing, growing herbs and salad leaves, making chutneys, baking cakes and dishing up crowd-pleasing meals.
West Dorset's top 10 budget eats
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Just three skimpy draft scenarios that had been cobbled together hurriedly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of them were skilled artisans, such as silversmiths, masons, milliners, cobblers, singers and tailors.
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Taki and Eiko stopped before the torii of the local Shinto shrine, staring at the cobblestone walkway surrounded by a lush, well-trimmed carpet of grass.
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The drunkard still lay unconscious on the cobbles.
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There are palm trees and cobbled roundabouts and beautiful old adobe buildings.
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Most of you got it right because 66.7 per cent guessed my last story was a load of cobblers.
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This means it is one of the few places where you can take a leisurely stroll through the cobbled streets of the new town.
The Sun
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Weil's recipes for unfussy summer desserts like easy blackberry cobbler, juicy peach pandowdy, and warm blueberry grunt leave no excuse for not taking advantage of summer fruit at its peak.
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The ‘approval’ document was cobbled together long after the experiment concluded and was then backdated, the other doctor said.
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Daniel laughed, brushed a piece of his blond hair from his eyes, and tried to skip another stone on the cobbles.
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His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.
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'When I first saw the floral banded wobbegong it looked similar to the species many fishers know as the cobbler wobbegong (Sutorectus tentaculatus), but on closer inspection there were some very obvious differences that help define it as a separate species.
Archive 2008-02-01
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The bushes produce enough berries for a cobbler or a crumble, but not enough for jam.
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I believe I don't altogether dislike it, sir," assented "Cobbler" Horn in response to the minister's last remark.
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
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Let the cobbler stick to his last.
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The cobbler must stick to his last.
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The front and rear gardens will have top soil and will be seeded; a cobblelock driveway offers off-street parking.
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The names of the tracks were printed on the album sleeve in wonky black type, making them look like classic anonymous ransom demands cobbled together from letters cut out of newspapers.
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The problem is that this still feels like a bunch of stars cobbled together rather than a cohesive team.
Times, Sunday Times
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Founded in 1608, it is the oldest on the continent, and has many of the touches that Europe takes for granted - city walls, cobbled streets, and a history that pre-dates your grandfather.
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Yellowing green and flame-coloured leaves carpet the unevenly cobbled courtyard.
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If you find the perfect pump, but the ball does not have a finish to it, go to a cobbler and get rubber treads put down.
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It does stink to not be able to get the job one wants right off, but most young people, if they have not overburdened themselves with stupid debt (e.g. cars, credit cards), can ride out a hiring lag and manage to cobble together a successful career in its aftermath.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Graduates
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He said it was all a load of cobblers.
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But the only title Caspar was willing to accept was that of "Cobbler to the King"; and, as such, he subsequently removed his belongings from
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
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So he sees -- he sees a soldier hit a woman and rob her, or he himself mends shoes for some of -- a shoemaker would then be called a cordwainer or a cobbler.
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution
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After lunch in the cobbled square, you can take a relaxing boat trip down the river.
Times, Sunday Times
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He decided to find the tuba player first and, after stopping to listen for the di - rection, he set off straight down a cobbled street.
Stalling
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But a stiff amble around its cobbled streets, taking in the fierce castle and the quaint medieval Baroque theatre installed in a former granary in the square, confirmed my good first impressions.
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On the property, Japanese maple and copper beech trees sit near a planted flat-roofed garage and grass driveway whose wide-set cobblestones look like part of the landscaping.
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The plate contained a large slice of peach cobbler, with the juicy slices of golden peaches oozing from beneath a golden brown crust.
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There were the little bunty street-cars on the long, single track that went its troubled way among the cobblestones.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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The first thing I did was cobble together a working computer so they could get started on building a database for their finds.
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And the next morning it opened with a mighty clatter, and was a dirty little beerhouse that stank of beer, and there was a fat and grimy landlord with red spots upon his neck, and much noisy traffic going by on the cobbles outside.
In the Days of the Comet
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This doesn't mean that I give friends or strangers the right to lecture me about how much sugar or fat is in the piece of peach cobbler I'm eating.
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They bring steaming trays of potato kugel and berry cobbler, bottles of grape juice and sweet wine.
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The organisers of the Spring Fling have helpfully split the huge region up into six routes, each taking in basketmakers or bookbinders, ceramicists or cobblers.
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Dinner consists of salad, barbecue and beans with a warm cobbler for dessert.
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The city boasts a strong European flavor, with cobbled streets, chic restaurants and a lively atmosphere.
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His ancestors were cobblers but diversified into making vividly embroidered leather bags, wallets and chair backs.
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The next battleground would be the cobbles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Samcuia's Africa is cobbled together from tribal carvings, San rock art, Mission school linocuts and the foliate designs seen in African ceramics and printed fabrics.
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Continue your stroll to supper along this narrow cobbled lane, where paintings and sculptures by local artists fill the doorways.
Times, Sunday Times
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The upper reaches of these lower tributaries are undammed and of moderate flow, with gravel/cobble substrate and only occasional sand bars.
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And don’t get me wrong — a blackberry cobbler is nothing to sniff at.
Dewberry cobbler is your reward | Homesick Texan
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They bring steaming trays of potato kugel and berry cobbler, bottles of grape juice and sweet wine.
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What a load of old cobblers.
The Sun
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So we cobble something together, the suits smile sweetly, the auditors tick their boxes, and everyone is happy, including the bad guys.
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Sampling locations were selected based on suitable habitat consisting of gravel and cobble substrates associated with riffles and runs and, to a large extent, accessibility.
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In the quiet twilight, the cobbler slowly set down his tools, laying the wooden shoe at the foot of his stool and rising slowly.
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Having said that, I have to go on to say that, for me, this story in the Times has all the earmarks of a load of old cobblers.
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In total there are 148 square metres of accommodation, while outside, the back garden is laid in patio and cobble.
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William was apprenticed to a cobbler and was a trained journeyman by the age of 11.
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She was woken by the crackle of her coach's wheels scraping on the cobbled road.
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Quick had won over the skeptic. with Sol's help, Quick went from cobbler to bowyer and Per.
A different flesh
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During the passage of thirty years, I have come to understand that Calle Rico, still narrow, steep and cobbled, is a principal path to the heights.
Calle Rico
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Angry householders have claimed the historic look of their community is being ruined by the removal of cobblestones.
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Snow still lay thickly over the forest, but had been cleared from the cobbled road which weaved its way down through the trees.
The Crossing-Place
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To this much-travelled man the whole world was as familiar as the village to the cobbler sitting in his shop.
THE SEA FARMER
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Anton stood in the coalyard of Lord Sisk's home, sadly surveying the wreckage of the Professor's balloon, stretched out on the cobblestones like the cast-off skin of some giant red snake.
The first sentence I wrote today was...
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Following winter storms, cobbles and rocky platforms are exposed, and the sand beach may only partially recover during the low waves of summer.
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Within a month we'd cobbled together a set and played a couple of parties but nobody fancied singing.
Times, Sunday Times
