Look at these footprints, and hobnailed boots into the bargain!" CHAPTER V. CATCHING A TARTAR.

I shall have to fill the soles of them full of hobnails presently.

His clothes were of fustian, and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustianed peasantry.

His clothes were of fustian, and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustianed peasantry.

You, friend with the hobby-horse, go not too fast, for fear of wearing out my lord's tile-stones with your hobnails.

Then, I'll none: the time hath been when such a fellow meddled with nothing but his ploughshare, his spade, and his hobnails; and so to a piece of bread and cheese, and went his way.

He regarded Mr. Jobson with dilated eyeballs, and, as the party approached, sank slowly into a sitting position on his doorstep, and as the door opened behind him rolled slowly over onto his back and presented an enormous pair of hobnailed soles to the gaze of an interested world.

Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots.

[Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^, tyke, tike, chuff^, ryot^, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^; rustic, hayseed

A wretched hobnailed chuff, whose recreation is reading of almanacks; and felicity, foul weather.

It is called the term, because it does end and terminate business, or else because it is the Terminus ad quem, that is, the end of the countryman's journey, who comes up to the term, and with his hobnail shoes grinds the faces of the poor stones, and so returns again.

Between times he found hobnails much inclined to click against unforeseen stones.

[Illustration: THESE BEASTS ARE ALL CLODHOPPERS, AND THEIR FEET ARE HOBNAILED BOOTS.]

And shoes, and" "Well, you can leave the shoes out, and get some hobnails and put them on the soles of any good heavy shoes.

The other, immediately putting on the wild stare of the maniac, cried out, "Hobnails, Sir!

They give us nothing but hobnails!" and went on with a "descant wild" on the horrors of the cookery of Bethlehem Hospital.

The handle is of wrought iron, highly polished; the snout copper, studded with hobnails.

There should be hobnailed shoesthe nails many and small, not few and large; and also moccasins or rubber-soled shoes; and light, flexible leggings.

LISLE, CLIFTON. Hobnails and heather.

SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN. Hobnails in Eden.

LISLE, CLIFTON. Hobnails and heather.

SCHAUFFLER, ROBERT HAVEN. Hobnails in Eden.

I believe he'd ha' taken off 'is shirt if it 'ad 'ad pockets in it, and then 'e stuck 'is feet close together and 'e kept jumping into the air, and coming down on to 'is own clothes in his hobnailed boots.

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.

He was seeing visions, though you would not think it to look at him; a stocky, middle-aged man who needed a shave and a hair-cut, wearing cheap, dirt-stained overalls and a blue shirt and square-toed shoes studded thickly on the soles with hobnails worn shiny; driving a desert-scarred Ford with most of the paint gone and a front fender cocked up and flapping crazily, and tires worn down to the fabric in places.