How To Use Hobnailed In A Sentence
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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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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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In winter they wore layers and layers of clothing and hobnailed boots to keep warm.
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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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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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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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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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He jumped over the fire, flames licking at the soles and bottoms of his hobnailed boots.
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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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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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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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hobnailed laborers
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
