hobnail

"That is all very true," said the Republican Form of Government, putting on its hobnail shoes; "but consider how I thrill you every Fourth of July."

Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahi, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.--But these are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens; for in these rooms every chair is waited for.

One's shoes must be strong and heavy, and have pointed hobnails in them.

The floor was seemingly inches deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked.

Operatives were sometimes accused of "looking a proper nana" in their large hobnail boots.

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Nail first gained attention singing in Newcastle blues band, the King Crabs, in which he wore a dress and hobnail boots on stage.

When people say the phrase "working class" the image that comes to mind is one of hobnail boots and flat caps, but since the 1950s the working classes have been really multicultural.

Kichler, for example, used the hobnail pattern technique from the 1940s for its Karmarie collection, while the Steel line featured industrial fire glass, which has a wire frame running through it.

The 2018 crop of corporate upstarts have been a motley bunch and, although lacking a true boo-hiss villain a la Katie Hopkins, they've been begging for a kick in the pants with a pair of hobnail size nines for several weeks now.