Through the dim-lit filth of the place the cobbler whirled them, struggling like a man insane.
That momentary wavering glance, that flitting light of doubt and fear, had told him that to the cobbler the name of Cardi meant something real and terrible.
One witness had passed Larubio's shop a few minutes before the shooting and had recognized the cobbler and his brother-in-law, Gaspardo Cressi.
The ex-cobbler gave another surly growl and expectorated on the floor in the direction where stood the child.
Not far from the Garden of the Widows, in Burgos, lived a cobbler who was so poor that he had not even smiled for many years.
There came a little maid and asked his Business; A Cobbler dwelt within; And though she much misliked the Bag he carried, She led the Bad Man in.
He bargained with the Cobbler for a lodging And soft laid down his Sack- In the Dead of Night, with none to spy or listen- From off his weary back.
There were long and anxious consultations between the cobbler and his sister.
I have often imagined the mental agony of the cobbler struggling with those foreign grammars.
They were not to know, these rich neighbors, that the cobbler was bringing for protection to his humble home a child destined to be a Prime Minister of the country.
A cobbler in Dublin, who once brought home his boots, refused to leave them without the money.
A sculptor hearing a cobbler find fault with the sandal on the foot of one of his statues, thought the man’s objections so reasonable that he altered it, and returned him his thanks.
Thus, for example, I found a cobbler one day surrounded by a starving family.
She answered with great humility that she was called La Tolosa, and that she was the daughter of a cobbler of Toledo who lived in the stalls of Sanchobienaya, and that wherever she might be she would serve and esteem him as her lord.
I, at any rate, have no mind to kill myself; so far from that, I mean to do as the cobbler does, who stretches the leather with his teeth until he makes it reach as far as he wants.
The Cobbler The cobbler sits in the middle on a stool or hassock, and the others join hands and dance round him.
Instead came a beggar and the cobbler gave him shoes; instead came an old crone with a heavy load of faggots.
Conrad the cobbler had a dream, when he had grown old, that the Master would come "His guest to be.
Take that for your pains," and the cobbler dealt Hudden a blow that made him stagger.
I made to the room door as fast as I could, and who should I stumble over but a cobbler and his seat, and if he did not work at me with his awls and his pinchers you may call me a rogue.
Nevertheless Scrub and Spare managed to live between their own trade, a small barley field, and a cottage garden, till one unlucky day when a new cobbler arrived in the village.
Spare found himself getting wonderfully dull, and very much out of place: nobles began to ask what business a cobbler had at the king's table, and his majesty ordered the palace chronicles to be searched for a precedent.
The cobbler was too wise to tell all he had lost with that doublet, but being by this time somewhat familiar with court customs, he proclaimed a reward of fifty gold pieces to any who would bring him news concerning it.
All things had gone well with the cobbler till the king thought that it was quite unbecoming to see such a worthy man without a servant.
The cobbler had a lump of cheese in his hand; his wife held fast a hunk of bread.
There was a poor cobbler who always had a kind word for Giuseppe too.
So perfectly uninjured were they that the cobbler would have thought they were another pair had it not been that he recognised the patches of his own clumsy work.
The cobbler knew what a way it was from Rome to Loreto, and that there would not be much left of a pair of shoes after they had done the way there and back.
The cobbler had hardly finished kissing his wife and children when the king's soldiers seized him and began dragging him through the streets toward the block.
When thecobbler was set free he secured the burnt shoe, that it might remind him never again to fall asleep over his work, and hastened to his family.
We must now leave the cobbler and his friends to their fate with the giant and his wife, and return to the coronation at the palace.
A cobbler there is at the turn of the square, but, O my King, his failure at making you shoes will be equaled only by your success in cutting off his head.
In the meantime what had become of the cobbler and his two friends?
What had the giant meant by telling his wife to prepare the cobbler first?
The cobbler soon found there were two others in the pocket with him.
The soldiers knew it was the voice of the great giant Lubercal; so they left the cobbler and hastened to save themselves.
After giving the cobbler something to refresh him, the giant put him in one of his coat pockets and carried him off to his mountain home.
The porter departed, and the cobbler soon received the leather and the measure and the message and, despite the gloom of the latter, he worked bravely on until he had completed his task.
You will have to get the roots of the white spruce, and sew with that, as a cobbler sews, using a knife for awl.
If my lord and cobbler will put away the snow-shoe we will dine, and after the washing up I will sleep.
Near the "Belle Sauvage" resided that proud cobbler mentioned by Steele, who has recorded his eccentricities.
He once went away in disgust, because none of them knew the name of "the Cobbler of Messina.
He stood and watched the cobbler at his trade, The man who slices lemons into drink, The coffee-roaster's brazier, and the boys That volunteer to help him turn its winch.
And it might have done him good, and made a decent cobbler of him, if the parson had only held him when he got him on the hook.
It is not a great stone building standing alone in the middle of a town," said the cobbler raising his head, and looking his interrogator full in the face.
I know what it is not," replied the oldcobbler bluntly, without looking off his work.
At the entrance of the town, hard by one of the first houses in the street, sat a cobbler working and singing in his hutch.
With this he struck spurs into his steed: the beast broke into a smart canter,--that of Cuthbert started in like manner; and they were instantly carried beyond the jeers and the loud laughter of the humorous old cobbler and his neighbours.
There may be traces of humor in The Simple Cobbler of Agawam (p.
He assured the captain, with an oath, that he had marked but one, and could not tell who had chalked the rest so that he could not distinguish the house which the cobbler had stopped at.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobbler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cobbler; doctor; drink; fixer; mechanic; serviceman; tinker
