hobnailed

How To Use hobnailed In A Sentence

• The streets were so very quiet that the steady tread of my hobnailed boots muffled by the ground frost sounded unnatural.
• 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
• In winter they wore layers and layers of clothing and hobnailed boots to keep warm.
• I see no worth in the hobnailed mirth or the jolthead jest ye did Kipling, The Poet of Empire
• Adults had hobnailed shoes, but hobnails were not found with children so they were bare-foot or wore un-nailed shoes.
• 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.
• 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
• He jumped over the fire, flames licking at the soles and bottoms of his hobnailed boots.
• The streets were so very quiet that the steady tread of my hobnailed boots muffled by the ground frost sounded unnatural.
• 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