How To Use Wooden shoe In A Sentence
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Wooden shoes are an item of traditional dress among rural dwellers in the interior of the region.
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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
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People who work outdoors often still wear the klompen (wooden shoes) popularly associated with the Dutch.
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He wore wooden shoes, that made a clonk and a clank every time he walked.
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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.
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In an old Flemish custom, Christmas gifts were brought in sabots, or wooden shoes.
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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FROZEN SCANDAL MAN says: yah sqeeuge yah tulips ve can hold zee hands yah laffing merrily yes vee dance among tulips zee wooden shoes klunking zee beautiful music as wee frolic in zee tulips! heil bush! heil zee nationale trotsky!
Think Progress » “Don’t Suicide Bomb.”
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Finally, invest in a wooden shoetree to preserve the shape of the shoe.
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The Klompen, a musical sculpture made with wooden shoes that contain mechanized hammers.
George Heymont: There's Art Right at Your Fingertips!
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The word sabotage is storied to be from the French word for wooden shoe, sabot, to recall how French workers threw their shoes into newfangled machinery to foil the efforts of industrial revolution bosses.
Survival of the Savvy
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For the most part, these were dark, crusty, ill-favored things, and it mattered little whether the artist attempted a still life of old wooden shoes or an interior scene of peasants consuming a frugal repast, as forms and shapes were barely discernible in his murky canvases.
A Stranger to Himself
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Dressed again in wadmal, leather gloves, leather apron, and wooden shoes, beard and mane full of the soot that blackened his skin, the dwarf gripped a piece with tongs and banged it into shape.
Operation Luna
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Wooden shoes are an item of traditional dress among rural dwellers in the interior of the region.
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Wooden shoes are an item of traditional dress among rural dwellers in the interior of the region.
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clumsy wooden shoes
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In Burgundy, artisans produce sabots (wooden shoes), vielles (stringed musical instruments), and other craft items.
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Her peasant headdress was high and elaborate, winged with chicken feathers, and her short skirts gave way before white stockings pulpily emerging from painted wooden shoes which clicked over the dull tiled floor.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
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Suddenly a young man and woman dressed in Dutch outfits, wearing wooden shoes and eating hunks of Gouda cheese, walked by.
A Dick Cheney Christmas Carol
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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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There are solid wooden shoes that were used in emergencies when no babiche was available for webbing, but the historical record and oral tradition agree that these were a second class alternative.
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A noble Peer, for example, (whose wisdom is not to be disputed, since the Abbe 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
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The shop owners bicycled to their shops in the rain, umbrellas up, and the farmers bicycled to their fields in yellow slickers and wooden shoes.
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If it is a clear, cold night, the clicking of their wooden shoes may be heard for some time; but if it is damp weather, the sound is stifled, and after a few moments the faint echo of an "adieu" or Christmas greeting is all that can be heard around the church as the beadle closes it.
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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Those who know that one meaning of sabot is “a wooden shoe” will probably admire desabotage, from Bill Parks, of Covington, Va.
Word Fugitives
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Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes!
The Maids of Paradise
