The people of that village were not extravagant in shoes, and better cobblers than Scrub and Spare might be found.
In high glee, the cobblers sat down to their beer and bacon.
Much as the cobblers had been surprised, they were still more so when it said: "'Good gentlemen, what season is this?
Illustration: 8494] This space would be of no use in the West, but here in the East it has been utilized, and we find a couple of cobblers squatted there, with their benches of tools in front of them.
Much as the cobblers had been surprised at first, they were still more so when the bird began to speak.
Scrub and Spare would have left the village but for their barley field, their cabbage garden, and a maid called Fairfeather, whom both the cobblers had courted for seven years without even knowing whom she meant to favour.
The people of that village did not need many shoes, and better cobblers than Scrub and Spare might be found.
No doubt that was written by some softa or other, for cobblersand tailors cannot write of course.
To be frightened of an army of bakers and cobblers indeed!
The cobblers and petty hucksters of Stambul are not worth a volley, and, besides, I would not hurt the poor things if possible.
He is as familiar with the Steppes of Tartary as with Wapping Old Stairs,--has imbibed sherbet in Damascus and sherry cobblers in New York, and seen a lion hunt in South Africa.
The cobblers had apparently an important guild from the money paid; the saddlers, tanners, and fullers had also guilds in 1292.
No person who meddled with old shoes was to make new ones; all work with new leather was declared to be within the sphere of the cordwainers, and the cobblers were restricted to mending, and that with very small pieces of leather.
Fourteen years later the lines were drawn still more precisely; the re-soling of old boots was reserved to the cordwainers, but the cobblers were allowed to mend with pieces of new leather boots that were burnt or broken.
There was many a quarrel between the cordwainers who made new boots and the cobblers who mended old ones, the cobblers complaining that the cordwainers were preventing them from gaining their living as they had done of old.
I dare say, the cobblers behaved better in future.
The punishment was highly applauded by those who witnessed it, and the poorcobblers were laughed at for their pains.
Two cobblers took an ill will to this inoffensive creature, and several times pricked him on the proboscis with their awls.
Thus do barbers and cobblers make the gods that we worship: for do we not all worship him?
The writers, too, condescended to intersperse the cant dialect of the populace, with which the cobblers doubtless assisted these learned men, when busied in their buffoonery.
It is full of scurrilous stories, probably brought together by two active cobblers who were so useful to their junto.
This I have not seen; but these cobblers probably picked up intelligence for these scandalous chronicles.
Two cobblers are particularly noticed as some of the industrious purveyors of sedition through the kingdom--Cliffe, the cobbler, and one Newman.
But a few of these cobblers still persist; and of these Pere La Purge is the best known, if not the most talented or most dangerous, example.
The invasion of machinery to do heeling and soling "while you wait" (ressemelage Americain) is driving out of Paris the old-time cobblers who made their shops rendezvous of the opposition and nurseries of revolt.
Nay, further, I will make 't appear He and the priests have done More mischief than the cobblers far All over Christendom.
The vicars are a numerous tribe, So are the cobblers too; And if a general quarrel rise, What must the country do?
There they practiced the craft of cobblersand of all cobblers they are the patrons.
Much as the cobblershad been surprised, they were still more so when the bird began to speak.
But they made a great fire of logs, which crackled and blazed with red embers, and in high glee the cobblerssat down to their beer and bacon.
The street cobblersof Paris have frequently given heroic instances of devotion and patriotism.
The tanners and cobblers who gave the third and fourth windows in the south aisle of the nave formed one corporation, and the curriers were for a long time included under the heading of tanners.
He was a sallow man--all cobblers are; and had a strong bristly beard--all cobblers have.
I was very glad we had not time to see the grovelling place; and as for seeing shoes made or fields tilled by reverend amateurs, we can find cobblers and ploughboys to do the work better.
Dante himself called the laureate of the cobblers and the bakers?
Tom Moore receives Visits from Two Cobblersand a Clerk XII.
Several cobblers detach themselves from the crowd and rush away to read the Platonic Dialogues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobblers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
