How To Use wooden shoe In A Sentence
- Wooden shoes are an item of traditional dress among rural dwellers in the interior of the region.
- Ordinarily, the poorest blousard has a new blouse once in five or ten years, and a new pair of wooden shoes in the same time; but the scavenger's apparel is for ever old, and he never lays it off. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
- People who work outdoors often still wear the klompen (wooden shoes) popularly associated with the Dutch.
- He wore wooden shoes, that made a clonk and a clank every time he walked.
- Four-hundred years ago, on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation, flung their wooden shoes, called sabo, into the machines to stop them ... hence the word: sabotage. Medlogs - Recent stories
- In an old Flemish custom, Christmas gifts were brought in sabots, or wooden shoes.
- The very day before Mr. Montenero was to leave town, without any conceivable reason, suddenly a cry was raised against the Jews: unfortunately, Jews rhymed to shoes: these words were hitched into a rhyme, and the cry was, "_No Jews, no wooden shoes_! Tales and Novels — Volume 09
- They wear wooden shoes, not uncuriously painted; and the women especially express a kind of rural simplicity and frolic mirth, which has a very agreeable effect. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
- Mably calls him the English Socrates, *) asserts that the French troops are the best clothed in Europe; yet letters, of nearly the same date with the Earl's speech, from two Generals and a Deputy at the head of different armies intreat a supply of covering for their denudated legions, and add, that they are obliged to march in wooden shoes! A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
- (Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), 'twas all one to him; touching only their dentiform vertebrae thrice with a piece of a wooden shoe, he made them as wholesome as so many sucking-pigs. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
