How To Use Hobnail In A Sentence
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A block away we hear the rumble of hobnails on cobblestone.
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Would a real rustical history of hobnails and eighteenpence a day be endurable?
The Virginians
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The filibuster will be there long after I've been thrown in the hole, because it's like a big old hobnail-boot ass-kicking machine.
‘No One Forgives Anyone’
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His diagnosis would be something like hobnail liver, clogged arteries, and general cussedness.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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When Douglas Hadow's boots were examined, it was found that the hobnails on their soles were worn almost smooth.
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The streets were so very quiet that the steady tread of my hobnailed boots muffled by the ground frost sounded unnatural.
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A hundred years of hobnail boots grinding human faces into hamburger.
VITALS
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Roman debris was left scattered over the surface of the road, including a Roman boot - just the hobnails survive - a quernstone and broken pottery.
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He jumped over the fire, flames licking at the soles and bottoms of his hobnailed boots.
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When I say that, I mean, "You win on some election nights, and on other election nights, people take your feelings and jump on them in hobnailed boots.
Obama's post-election speech, the draft version
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* PB taiks a inglish brekfuss tee no mlik wib hobnail bikky *
I flossez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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This did not work out the way I thought it was going to, as a matter of fact the dark thing only stepped on my chest a couple of times with its hobnail feet and then rolled me back into the opposite direction, with very little effort I might add.
The Smelly Rug
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About twenty soldiers entered the church, making a lot of noise with their hobnailed boots, and put their guns in a corner with a guard in front of them.
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OK OK, I'll get a pair of hobnail boots and practice goose-stepping and idol-worshipping, so that I can get along better with the Obama people.
Obama says differences with Clinton 'infinitesimal'
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If all the generals put away their hobnail boots, war would forever be put away.
Sonny Brewer - An interview with author
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Leather shoes lasted no time at all without hobnails, and conversely, floors, whether of stone or wood, lasted no time at all without matting of some sort.
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Leather shoes lasted no time at all without hobnails, and conversely, floors, whether of stone or wood, lasted no time at all without matting of some sort.
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Adults had hobnailed shoes, but hobnails were not found with children so they were bare-foot or wore un-nailed shoes.
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This legislation stamps on all that with a clunking, hobnail boot." ...
Labour's restrictions on visitors diminish the cultural life of the nation
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I see no worth in the hobnailed mirth or the jolthead jest ye did
Kipling, The Poet of Empire
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In winter they wore layers and layers of clothing and hobnailed boots to keep warm.
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The Romans also made a hobnailed shoe and boot that lasted longer for those centurions travelling to invade other lands.
A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson
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Norton was wearing hobnail leather boots, a tweed jacket, wool knickers, and a felt hat.
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His diagnosis would be something like hobnail liver, clogged arteries, and general cussedness.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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It was Bismarck who attempted to put all churches and universities in Prussia under his hobnailed boot.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville?
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He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke.
All Gold Canon
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All the beautiful little hints of intrigue were stomped down with movie-length hobnail boots.
MIND MELD: SciFi TV Shows That Deserve A Remake (with Videos)
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Of course, doffing my hobnailed leather brogues for a bit of fresh air in the middle of the aerodrome probably didn't endear me to the locals.
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Captain Davis let us have five pairs of light bluchers out of the ship's stores, and we reckoned that these with extra soles and a few hobnails would hold out till August or September, when a sealing vessel was expected.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Didn't Mother frequently complain about how and why he must wear hobnailed boots, such was the racket he made early in the morning?
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A century ago, mountains were climbed in hobnailed boots with stafflike ice axes, footsteps laboriously cut all the way to the top.
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That would be what those guys in the shiny knee-high hobnailed boots do.
Lead Coleman Lawyer: Franken Will Have Bigger Lead After Trial, Then Come Appeals
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When the stairs were replaced with new timber, the family could see marks from the hobnail boots of the soldiers indented in the wood.
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Maybrick's pulse flared like the lightning overhead as he stood there in the darkness, listening to the rustle of skirts and clothing hastily switched about, the sharp sounds of the dockhand shifting his hobnailed boots on the pavement as he pressed the cheap trollop back into a convenient corner, the heavy breaths and meaty sounds of flesh coming together, slow and rhythmic and hard.
Ripping Time
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While most of them are careful to maintain a little patch of agnostic "to be sure" territory, hectoring heretics like PZ Myers get their jollies by stomping all over sacred ground in the hobnailed boots of rationality.
Clay Farris Naff: How Science Can Solve the Puzzle of God
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hobnailed laborers
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The legionary is also wearing an apron of leather strips featuring metal plates hanging from his belt, and caligae, leather sandals with iron hobnails.
Collector Coins Offer Enjoyment and Profit : Coin Collecting News
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The lids contain dimples or hobnail designs on the inside so that the condensation that collects there from the steam drips back into the food, keeping it moist.
Tigers & Strawberries » The Riddle of Iron
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But while Heat raised an eyebrow, Holy Moly – like Popbitch – applied a hobnail boot.
Jamie East: I didn't sell half of Holy Moly to Endemol without TV in mind
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A jackboot is a laceless military boot that comes almost to the knee; whose sole is studded with steel hobnails and whose heel is rimmed with steel.
Some Thoughts on Jackbooted Thugs
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Mallory had only rudimentary oxygen equipment, no radio, a basic cotton tent and hobnail boots.
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A hundred years of hobnail boots grinding human faces into hamburger.
VITALS
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Well, in so doing they present to the world their backsides to which the world should now administer its well-placed hobnail boot.
Archive 2008-04-06
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The adventurers, wearing hobnail boots and heavy tweed clothing, disappeared on June 8 1924 and were last seen within 2000 ft of the world's highest peak.
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The streets were so very quiet that the steady tread of my hobnailed boots muffled by the ground frost sounded unnatural.
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Markets set borrowing rates, voters turn out politicians who push them too far, and plans to land with hobnailed boots on profligate debtor nations founder on two facts.
Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right
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Of the other material categories, footwear is as likely to be absent as present - although without hobnails and suitable conditions for preservation, we cannot be certain about frequency.
