No man shod in thebrogans of impudence should walk into the temple of another man's soul.
Their old petticoats were tucked high, showing the coarse brogans which they wore--and the visible ankles were proportioned to the brogans as the diameter of a straw is to that of a half-crown.
As they swayed and tottered their broganswere ploughing up the hard soil and, totally blinded by sweat and rage, they wavered perilously close to the edge of the huge rock--with its ten-foot drop to the mill race.
Between the frayed bottoms of shrunken trousers and the battered tops of crude brogans each showed a dusty and unstockinged shank.
One of them'd just landed his broganson my face when I let'm have it.
His face was stolid and ox-like, and as he shuffled and dragged his brogans over the deck he paused every several steps to place both hands on his abdomen and execute a queer, pressing, lifting movement.
Dere was a man on de plantation what made all our brogans for winter.
Dey was jus' brogans wid brass toes, but us felt powerful dressed up when us got 'em on, 'specially when dey was new and de brass was bright and shiny.
Me, I got brass-toed brogans lak Marster meant for us to git.
She wore a dress that was soiled and copiously patched and her worn out brogans were several sizes too large.
He rose, drew on his brogans and tiptoed noiselessly out to the ashes of the dead fire.
They had managed to rescue a nondescript collection of clothing, blankets, mackintoshes, socks, brogans and two teamsters' overcoats from the partly destroyed lower shanty.
Then shoes were seldom used, although clumsy brogans were occasionally in demand.
The heavy brogans weighted down the lightness of her step.
In crossing the river the brogans had washed from her neck.
It caught in a spotlight the cheap, dingy gown, the coarse stockings through the holes of which white flesh peeped, the heavy, broken brogans that disfigured the feet.
June had not realized what an ordeal it would be to stand up before strangers in her dingy dress and heavy cracked brogans while she promised to love, honor, and obey.
June took off herbrogans and tied them round her neck.
We employ forty-seven persons, and turn out two hundred and fifty pairs ofbrogans daily.
My father was de shoemaker an' had a gov'mint tan yard whar he would make ol' hard brogans fer $8 a pair.
He useta done had broganssont out in boxfuls f'um Mobile.
Us shoes was made at a tanyard and dey was brogans as hard as rocks.
Our shoes was rough old brogans what was hard as rocks, and us had to put rags inside 'em to keep 'em from rubbin' de skin off our foots.
The brogans were made of such hard leather until the wearers' feet were usually blistered before the shoes were "broken in.
The grown people wore heavy shoes called brogans while I wore the cast-off shoes of the white ladies.
Dey made up hole-stock shoes for de 'omans and gals and brass-toed brogans for de mens and boys.
Our shoes wuz jus' common brogans what dey made at home.
Dey bought dem dere great big ole brogans where you couldn' hardly walk in 'em.
There are more onions here than patchouli, more worsted wrappers than Brummel neck-ties, and more brogans than patent leather.
Wear same kind of pants on Sunday dat wear every day en same kind of shoes call brogans wid brass toes.
The heavy brogans on the man's feet made him appear clumsy-footed, but he swung down from the giddy height as lightly and airily as a mountain goat.
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.
Quickly procuring my ticket and entering the car, I secured the rear seat and with fear and trembling attempted to hide my brogans by setting my satchel on them.
Now I am sure my brogans presented a striking and ludicrous contrast to my "clawhammer" blue broadcloth and gold buttons, and to which I shall have occasion to refer again.
That night found me in Louisville, a shy, cringing guest of the old Louisville Hotel, my brogansgiving me more concern than anything else, being in such striking contrast to my clawhammer broadcloth and gold buttons.
Shoes had been dealt out to the army only that morning, and his feet were so sore that his heavy, ill-fitting brogans were unendurable.
His shoes were heavy brogans twice too large for him, and tied on with strings.
Although this is no place to discuss the mountain dialect, I must explain that to "brogue" means to go about in brogues (brogans nowadays).
The sparks eliminated by the contact of the spikes in Jim's brogans with the rocks in his pathway lighted up his trail, and added greatly to the ludicrousness of the scene.
They had run about ten rods when Jim's brogans were in close proximity to the old dog's tail.
Jim's brogans were once more at the dog's caudal extremity, when he suddenly dodged aside and endeavored to reach the cover of the woods; but he was too completely exhausted to accomplish this object.
The next moment Trundle had crawled over the low rail fence at the side of the store, and with clattering, untied brogans was coming up the steps.
As he took off his brogansto cool his feet, and began to scratch his toes through his woolen socks, it was evident to his questioner that he was not only embarrassed but angry.
He silently hung his head, and looked sheepishly down at his bare feet, then at the fine stout brogans that he carried in his hand.
She stooped and unlaced the brogans that were chafing her feet, removed them and her stockings, and threw the things away from her.
From the shanty, at first, came crooning tones, as though the man in brogans were humming over old songs to himself.
His clean, but faded blue overalls and shirt were patched in several places and heavy brogans completed his costume.
Old Boss provided brass-toed brogans for winter, but we never thought of such a thing as shoes to wear in hot weather.
When the man in charge of the shop told marster he wouldn't work my brother unless he had on shoes, he bought some brogans that he knowed he couldn't wear, and from then on he made him do the hardest kind of work he could think of.
An issue for the men usually consisted of one or two pairs of pants and some shirts, underwear, woolen socks, and a pair of heavy brogans that had been made of horse hide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brogans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
