Never tried before you acquired those beautiful gray elkskin boots with the ravishing hobnails in 'em," chaffed Bob.
It ended in the sound of hobnails on the stone steps as the despatch rider descended, lighting his way with the yellow shaft from an electric pocket lamp.
I recollect seeing the shiny hobnails and the horseshoe of steel on the runners' boots as I crawled back past them to take the lead.
I thought of the shiny hobnails on the runners' boots, and drew my legs up closer.
The Deer hunt had been made still more real by having the "Deer-boy" wear a pair of sandals made from old boots; on the sole of each they put two lines of hobnails in V shape, pointing forward.
Before Bower could recover his balance, for his hobnailscaused him to slip on the tiled floor, Spencer was halfway across the inner hall, and approaching the elevator.
On the floor, no matter how carefully the office occupants scrape their hobnails before entering, there is always a thin coating of mud.
Thad replied quietly, but conclusively; "that spluttering foreigner has hobnails in his soles; and I saw none like that over on the island.
They were marked all around by hobnails such as are used by the lower classes across the water, in order to save the leather soles, for leather costs more money than a few nails.
If much climbing and tramping is to be done, heavy shoes with hobnails should be worn.
Not a breath of air stirred, and the only sound was the crunch of hobnailson rock.
The man with the arrow made inhobnails on the soles of his shoes has been here!
Look, whoever made these had heavy boots with hobnails in them, made in the shape of an arrow.
So we look at our boots with a sense that our hobnails do not match with the white Japanese matting that covers the floor; and we sit on the edge of our chairs just as other rustics would do at home.
She slipped noiselessly into the house by the front door, which she barred behind her; the clatter of hobnails from the little yard told that Billy was already about his business, but behind Mrs. Penticost's door all was quiet.
The next time you here from me itll be the scrapin of my hobnails on the front stoop.
These fellos will eat anything from the hobnails out of your shoes to a bag of Bull.
The tracks of the man with the hobnails kept directly on in the course leading to the nearest highway that would take him to Wausau, a thriving lumber town, forty miles distant from Stevens Point.
Hobnails only will hold you on a slope covered with pine needles, for instance; both leather and buckskin there become as slippery as glass.
In case of smooth rocks, however, your hobnails are positively dangerous, as they slide from under you with all the vicious force and suddenness of unaccustomed skates.
If he adds big hobnails to make tracks with, he is sure of himself.
Would a real rustical history of hobnails and eighteenpence a day be endurable?
After the continued climbing of the day, walking was a delicious rest, and forward we pressed with considerable speed, our hobnails giving us firm footing on the glittering glacial surface.
Our walking shoes were in excellent condition, the hobnails firm and new.
Without even smiling at the implied compliment Elmer went on: "Two of them wore shoes with hobnails just as you see on this old cast-off shoe here.
Hobnails such as no one but foreigners use on their shoes.
Fortunately he escaped each time with nothing more serious than a few bruises, and that night he drove a number of hobnails into the soles of his boots.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hobnails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
