They were in such a sorry state that a passing officer advised them to lie down on the broken cobbles of the Grande Place until an ambulance could be sent for them.
The weary feet, sore and bruised, tramped the hard cobbles unconscious of their pain.
Instead of following the asphalted footpath that hemmed the cobbles on one side of the cut, she picked her place and scaled the south wall.
Here and there the clack of wooden sabots on the cobbles told of one poor fellow not outfitted with leather shoes.
Over the big desolate space of the market-place the blue sky shimmered, and the granite cobbles of the paving glistened.
He found the house in a mean little street paved with granite cobbles and having causeways of dark blue, grooved bricks.
We marched up from the quay in the early morning, followed the winding road paved with treacherous cobbles that glory in tripping unwary feet, and sweated to the summit of the hill.
It was not on that account that Charnock stopped; but underneath the shuttered window, his head almost touching the sill, Hassan squatted on the cobbles fingering now and then a silver dollar.
The town had been long abed, the street lamps were out, the cobbles wet and shining.
He stamped on the cobbles by the door and the snow went down off him in heaps, and there he was in his beautiful long clothes, and I said to myself: 'Whatever shall I do with him?
The sun was sinking over the mountains and the scenery in the western sky was reflected in the fiery pools between the cobbles in the street.
A myrtle-bush which grew out of a hole in the cobbles was carefully trained against the front of a cottage in the middle of the row, and a brass plate on the door informed the wayfarer and ignorant man that "T.
Their breeches were buried in the ground, and their muzzles stood up as sturdy iron posts, while the brown cobbles of the roadway sloped to a shallow stone gutter which ran down the middle of the lane.
We could hear it even while we talked and above the sound of our footsteps on the cobbles of the long French highway.
Standing there, half-frenzied by her helplessness, she caught again a sound of vehicles and hooves on the cobbles of the street below.
As they were rattling over the cobbles of Nantes' streets, he remembered a promise to La Binet to witness her performance that night in "The Faithless Lover.
The cobbles which he was able to intercept had just been employed in transferring the contraband from the dogger to the shore.
The cobbles were icy, and scarce a moment passed in which he did not have to struggle to maintain his balance.
The early watch passed by, banging their staffs on the cobbles and doubtless cursing their unfortunate calling.
I desire to see the cobbles of Rochelle and Périgny before I die.
Then, as they turned over the hot shining cobbles into the Close and saw the green trees swimming in the sun, he turned his mind to the party.
Cobbles are gone now, and old buses sleep in deserted courts, and Collins, alas, is not.
Yet now, as the fly rattled over the cobbles of the Close and the familiar cathedral rose before her like a menace, she hung her head and greatly doubted but what the juxtaposition was wicked.
She held tight to the hand rail on one side while the Meuk cobbles lasted and to Ilse's arm on the other, and was thankful when the station was reached and she somehow, with a shameful clumsiness, got down out of the high carriage.
The swallows were flying, high about the Dungeon Tower and low across the big old grassy cobbles of the Place.
The entrance door stood open, across the grass and cobbles of the court, to whosoever might trouble to go in.
The swallows are flying low back and forth across the cobbles of the Place and crying.
There was fighting, over and over, up and down, those big square cobbles of the streets and of the market place, and from the doors and windows and roofs of those little houses.
The tawny leaves of the plane-trees are fallen, and lie on the cobbles and in the water.
It was in the street of a village; I saw the cobbles under his feet, and a broken doorstep.
When the Belgian peasant housewife has cleaned the inside of her house she issues forth with bucket and scrubbing brush and washes the outside of it--and even the pavement in front and the cobbles of the road.
We got to the center of the town, leaving the venerable nag behind to be baited at a big gray barn by a big, shapeless, kindly woman hostler whose wooden shoes clattered on the round cobbles of her stable yard like drum taps.
The blue-clad arms of one of them were twisted upward in a half-arc, encircling nothing; and as the wheels jolted over the rutted cobbles these two bent arms joggled and swayed drunkenly.
Grass was sprouting from between the cobbles of the streets in the populous residential districts through which we passed on the way from the American Ministry to our next stopping place.
And the huddled man came on a staggering run which ended in a backward fall on the cobbles of the court.
It was a night of full moon, sailing high, which poured whiteness into the court, making its cobbles embedded in the earth look like milky bubbles and drawing clear-cut shadows of the well-top and the gables and chimneys of the house.
She had sat down on the floor by the hearth, her head thrown back to lean against the cobbles of the chimney-piece, her knees locked in her hands.
And then, you see, Stephen, if you go up the hill and round to the right you come to the market-place, all covered with shiny cobbles and once a week filled with stalls where people sell things.
The world was very silent, and the snow lay on the round cobbles of the steep street with a bright shining whiteness against the black houses and the dark night sky.
I but a slip of a boy, you must know, which it was thirty year back now and the rain sizzling on the cobbles and the wind blawin' the chimneys crooked.
The carved swan looks down at the passing men, And the cobbles wink: "An hour has gone again.
He gazes into the street And swims the cold and the heat, He has always been there, At least so say the cobbles in the square.
But the people kneeling before the Bishop's chair Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
The cobbles see this all along the street Coming--coming--on countless feet.
Paved with river cobbles and crooked as a dog's hind leg, a street fell steeply down into the barranca from whose black depths uprose the low roar of rushing waters.
I and the machine-gun section rattled over the cobbles into sleeping Armentières, and hadn't the slightest idea where we had to go.
I went into the yard and walked across the dirty cobbles to the front door.
Similar cobblesabound along the eastern coast of Tiburon, being derived from the immense volcanic masses of Sierra Kunkaak.
It was late at night when I arrived, and bewildering with rain, total darkness, and an upheaval of cobbles in by-ways that wandered to no known purpose.
Several cabs, on their way to a ship outward bound, made an increasing noise in the night, rattled by on the cobbles outside, their occupants roaring a sentimental chorus, and drowned what the doctor was saying.
Passing one of the many inns, which were the only illumination of the village, I stumbled over a shadow on the cobbles outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cobbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
