The girl slipped off her sabots and put her feet into some green worsted slippers that stood in the narrow passage.
So great, indeed, was this stillness that the click of the man's sabots upon the uneven pavement reverberated, ghoul-like and weird.
And there was the click of his sabots upon the pavement all the time.
Ever since mademoiselle first tripped past me at the angle of the Pont Neuf dressed in winsey kirtle and wearing sabots on her feet.
After that the hurrying retreat of many feet, the click of sabots on the uneven pavement and patter of shoeless feet, and then silence.
The sound of naked feet and of wooden sabots pattering on the distant footbridge had caused Roger to utter the quick challenge.
Abandoning his uniform, he put on his old clothes, his sabots and his leather apron, and for ten long days the hammer beat incessantly upon the anvil.
But our efforts were crowned with success, for presently we heard his steps approaching, his sabots crunching on the gravel path.
The wily manager had got out of the difficulty by composing a choregraphic scenario called Les Sabotiers, in which the only sign of skill asked of the lady performers was to swing the sabots on their feet in cadenced time.
So much so, that it was even she who had to catch the rheumatism, and to lie now bedridden, months at a time, while Jeanne Marie was as active in her sabots as she had ever been.
Jeanne Marie slipped her feet out of her sabots and crept easily toward it, smiling, and saying "Coton-Maï!
Your sabots tread the roads of chance, And not one queen of old romance Carried her velvet shoes and lace With half your grace.
Through snow and mud He walked with troubled and uncertain gait, As though his sabots trod upon the dead, Indifferent and hostile to the world.
By twenties and by thirties they came, wonderful figures, and the air rang with the music of sabots on klinker.
The sound of Pere Fourchon's broken sabotswas now heard; after depositing them in the antechamber, he was brought to the door of the dining-room by Francois.
Clothed in rags like Fourchon, poor Courtecuisse, who lately wore the boots and gaiters of a huntsman, now thrust his feet into sabots and accused "the rich" of Les Aigues of having caused his destitution.
Occasionally the sabots would be several sizes too large for the wearer, but were made to fit by stuffing straw in them.
Two little boys in black blouses came running up the street, their sabots clacking against the rough cobbles.
Then, for he was no longer in haste, he stepped into his green sabots and started homeward, biting into the apple that had listened.
Then all at once, as the rough music of his clicking sabots and the playful taps of his cane ceased, the laugh on his mobile lips melted into seriousness.
The clatter of sabots over the wooden floor of the tribune and the loud talking were disturbing the court.
The thick sabots plunge into the mud, the water squirts out of the wooden shoes as the strong heels press into them.
The clatter of the curé's sabots was the response that answered to the bell we pulled, a bell attached to a diminutive brick house lying at the foot of the churchyard.
The villagers were pattering across the rough floors, talking, as their sabots clattered heavily over the wooden surface, as they washed the dishes, as they covered their fires, shoving back the tables and chairs.
The sun already gilded the towers of Notre Dame, the clatter of workmen's sabots awoke sharp echoes in the street below, and across the way a blackbird in a pink almond tree was going into an ecstasy of trills.
But those who shouted loudest had only their fists by way of weapon and Paul Friche had mugs and bottles, and those sabots of his kicked out with uncomfortable agility.
Sabots were sometimes made of paper, too, or of compressed wood chips, to eliminate the danger of a heavy, unbroken sabot falling amongst friendly troops.
After the handier sabots came into use, however, wads were needed only to keep the ball from rolling out when the muzzle was down, or for hot shot firing.
In a few minutes she appeared attired in a short, rusty-black skirt, sabots on her feet, and a black woollen shawl over her head and shoulders.
Round the hotel doorway there is always a collection of sabots awaiting their owners.
In her black velvet-braided skirt and wooden sabots the Breton is a dainty little figure, her only lapse into frivolity consisting of a gold chain at her neck and gold earrings.
Day after day they wore the same old paint-stained suits of corduroys, battered wide-brimmed hats, loose flannel shirts, and coarse wooden sabots stuffed with straw.
Even with your eyes shut, you would soon know of the advent of the fishermen by the downward clatter of myriads of sabots through the badly-paved steep streets, gathering in volume and rapidity with each succeeding minute.
Ruthlessly she trod on our toes with her thick black sabots in getting in.
Although when you become accustomed to them sabots are comfortable and sensible gear, at first they are extremely awkward.
At the top of one of the hills the carriage was stopped, and a chubby boy in a red bere and sabots presented himself at the door, with the request that we should descend and see the 'goffre.
Yes, sabots that are like to hold salt enough to cook your eggs with--sabots that your father has plodded on with these twenty years; they have helped him to make you what you are.
Now nobody in St. Gildas used straw in sabots except a fisherman who lived near St. Julien, and the straw in his sabots was ordinary yellow wheat straw!
His own sabotscame from Mort-Dieu; they were shaved square and banded with steel.
The sabots stood on the mantel above the fire now, dusty and tarnished.
Lys looked at her delicate pointed sabots, the sabots from Pont-Aven, made to order.
A second later all the dogs repeated the growl, and then I could hear the clicking of a pair of sabots on the road.
Presently we could hear the clicking of the sabots on the bard road as the peasants hurried from the fields towards the Mairie.
If only the little sabots are there in their place; that is her great anxiety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sabots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
