And I'm to wear my broguesand run jeopardy of the red-coats to please you?
The two shillings carried him not quite as many miles; at the end of which distance, he sat down upon the wayside and took off his brogues from his feet, like a man about to rest.
As I approached he rose, and came to meet me with the brogues in his hand.
I have brogues to ait as well as you, and one of mine is as big as two of yours.
But the Bishop seems to have had the brogues themselves, and he and his Jacobite friends were wont to use them as drinking vessels on special occasions.
Then, finally, there are pieces of one of the lugs of the brogues or shoes which the Prince wore as Betty Burke, stuck on the inside of the back board of volume fifth.
So in I went, the soft soles of my brogues making no sound on the boards, but leaving the impress of my footsteps in a damp blot.
At the head of Glen Roy the MacDonalds, who had lost their bauchles of brogues in the pass, started to a trot, and as the necessity was we had to take up the pace too.
My low-heeled shoon were less fitted for the excursion than his close-thonged brogues that clung to the feet like a dry glove, and I walked lamely.
Think not of that, Catharine," said the glover: "I am as familiar with brogues and bracken as if I had worn them myself.
Footnote: Leather was sent by these benevolent gentlemen, and brogues were made for men and boys, and proved to be of the first service.
She started up in a dream, and found George Mor gone, and the mark of muddy brogues near the door fitted in with her dream.
A cruisie-light was set alowe in the blind man's bothy, and the three men played old tunes and new tunes--salute and lament and brisk dances and marches that coax tired brogues on the long roads.
They took a new plan, and close together faced the green tartan, keeping it back at the point of steel, though the pick of Glenaora wore it, and the brogues slipped on the brae-face.
The smirr gathered thicker, and went to rain that fell solid, the brogues grew like steeped bladders on the feet, a scatter of crows made a noisy homing to the trees at Tullich, and Aora gobbled like swine in a baron's trough.
Below the foot the ground was greasy, as it is in a fold at the dippingtime; but the two men pulled themselves up with a leap on it as if it might be dry sand, and the brogues made no error on the soil.
The brogues skliffed and hammered; men with muskets, swords, dirks, and targes ran down the street, and women and children behind them.
He sang 'Mo Nighean Dubh' in a style was never heard before in our place, and he once brought me the scented cuckoo-brogues from Aora.
Up he pushed, with the hazel cromag bending behind him, and his brogues slipping on the round snow-soles.
He tried to walk in another direction but the brogues carried him straight down to the water's edge and out into the lake until he was in waist deep.
Wetehinen said, and immediately the brogues which had been standing still while they talked started walking again.
She's my last daughter and--" Before he could say more, the brogues walked on and the water rose to his nose.
The brogues stopped walking and Wetehinen said: "Well, do you promise to give her to me?
Wading stockings and brogues are always worth using, either for fly-fishing, even if you do not require to wade, or for winter angling amongst the coarse fish.
The sound of Callum's brogues in his apartment (for Mac-Ivor had again assigned Waverley to his care) was the next note of parting.
But here lieth the second difficulty-- the Prince wears no boots, but simply brogues and trews.
An instant later the canoe-shaped brogues came clattering down from above.
One day I was told, that to make brogues was a domestick art, which every man practised for himself, and that a pair of brogues was the work of an hour.
I supposed that the husband made brogues as the wife made an apron, till next day it was told me, that a brogue-maker was a trade, and that a pair would cost half a crown.
Brogues were formerly made of raw hides, with the hair inwards, and such are perhaps still used in rude and remote parts; but they are said not to last above two days.
I then begged of the man to sell me a pair of his brogues and stockings, as I was then barefooted, which he accordingly did.
It isn't much money yourself spinds in brogues and stockings, thin,' says I.
These hempen broguesare almost universally worn by the hillmen, and are admirable footwear for rock work; but they need patching every evening to be ready for the journey next day.
Here our European nailed boots refused to bite on the surface, and the porters in their hempen brogues got across much more happily than we.
Stiff European boots are not nearly so good for such work as the flexible brogues of the natives; and the spongy pads of the camels are apparently the best things of all.
The two shillings carried him not quite as many miles; at the end of which distance he sat down upon the wayside and took off his brogues from his feet, like a man about to rest.
It’s God’s blessin’ that I haven’t my brogues on my feet, for they would be ruined entirely.
Will it be about the wee red-headed man with the flock of goats before him, and the flock of goats behind him, and the salmon tied to the laces of his brogues for supper?
None wore their shoes, although three or four carried brogues tied round their necks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
