Do we say shoed or shooed

shoed 13 occurrences

Instinctively holding her satchel aloft, to save its fragile contents from fracture, she rocked, shoed and glided all over the interior of the vehicle, without hope of gaining breath enough for even one scream, until, nearly unconscious, and, with her bonnet driven half-way into her chignon, she was helped out by the hackman at her guardian's door.

His horses, like those of Lear, must be shoed with felt.

I was now with the wooden-shoed Belgians.

The little old horse left them and, though they shoed patiently for miles following his track, it was only to find his bones gnawed clean by coyotes or by wolves.

You must imagine snow waist-deep, the heights furrowed with trenches, the frosty balsam stillness split with screaming shells and shrapnel and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns; imagine yourself floundering upward with winter overcoat, blanket, pack, rifle, and cartridge-beltany one who has snow-shoed in mountains in midwinter can fancy what fighting meant in a place like this.

There was the crowd at the door of the post-house where you stopped to change horses, and the little troop of wooden-shoed children that followed you up the hill, drawling out in unison, "Un peu de charité, s'il vous plaît," gradually quickening their pace as the horses began to trot, and breaking all off together and tumbling in a heap as they scrambled for the sous that were thrown out to them.

He shoed his teeth, and stood first upon one foot and then upon the other, the sketch held before him by the very tips of his stubby fingers.

"Shoe, shoed or shod, shoeing, shoed or shod."Old Gram., by W. Ward, p. 64; and Fowle's True English Gram., p. 46.

"Shoe, shoed or shod, shoeing, shoed or shod."Old Gram., by W. Ward, p. 64; and Fowle's True English Gram., p. 46.

PINKERTON, ROBERT E. Calk shoed dynamite.

PINKERTON, ROBERT E. Calk shoed dynamite.

O, wooden-shoed Ptolemies!

They were all four those, of persons of larger growth than Joe Digby and mingling with them unmistakably was the broken-shoed track of Hank, the beach-comber.

shooed 10 occurrences

As for the cook, although her tongue was tart upon a just occasion and although she shooed the children with her apron, secretly she liked to have them crowding through her kitchen.

The camels and the elephants crowded in for the nice green lunch, and the farmer's wife came out with her apron waving, and said "Shoo," but none of the animals shooed worth a cent, and pa pulled on the lines, and yelled, while the rest of the parade came into the farm and lined up.

They tried to do me for a breakfast, but I come out with a gun, and they shooed.

"He has just 'jumped the coup,' or rather been 'shooed out'.

Last night Wilbur and I started down to dinner and they shooed him back to put on his evening clothes.

" As time went on, grandma declared that I helped her a great deal because I kept her chip-box full, shooed the hens out of the house, brought in the eggs, and drove the little chicks to bed, nights.

And he shooed me off with that.

The others were now all streaming into the hall, and Bubbles would hardly allow the good-natured Sir Lyon and Bill Donnington to finish their cigarettes before she shooed them out to cut down some ivy.

After they got into the Dressing Room they Stuck there until they had to be Shooed out.

"They throned up their heads and looked at me like I was wild Injuns, and I shooed 'em offor tried to.

Do we say   shoed   or  shooed