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Example sentences for "wooden shoes"

  • Elsewhere he went in and out everywhere with his clattering wooden shoes; and people bought of him, as they must have sand for their floors, and his was as good as any other.

  • People were wearing out their old boots, or they went about in wooden shoes.

  • There was a sense of security in the sound of his father's wooden shoes up and down the foddering-passage.

  • She was in rags; her bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen stockings destined for the young Thenardiers.

  • It was the bullfinch, who with unfailing vigilance stood guard over the rows of wooden shoes.

  • And I shall finish your picture, Bébée, and all Paris will see you, and the great ladies will envy the little girl with her two wooden shoes.

  • She slowly took off her heavy wooden shoes, such as are worn in that country, and placed them beside the hearth.

  • On Thursdays, in the winter, the aisles resounded for an instant with the clang of wooden shoes, when the students of the catechism came and went.

  • Only little Wolff came shivering in the clothes that he wore week-days and Sundays, and with nothing on his feet but coarse Strasbourg socks and heavy sabots, or wooden shoes.

  • He warned the Queen that a party of horrid men, in wooden shoes, with pickaxes, spades and pumps, were coming to drain the swamp and pump out the pool.

  • Presently he heard a more orderly clatter of wooden shoes and he saw several of the soldiers, who had not yet gone ashore, hurry to the rail.

  • French people, and that incessant accompaniment of all, the clatter, clatter, clatter, of wooden shoes.

  • Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her stockings, to do honor to the noble guests.

  • But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pieces of wood look really like two little wooden shoes, and he determined to give them as a present to Little Christina.

  • The lad from the posting house who came to groom the mare every morning passed through the passage with his heavy wooden shoes; there were holes in his blouse; his feet were bare in list slippers.

  • Over the door, where the organ should be, is a loft for the men, with a spiral staircase that reverberates under their wooden shoes.

  • She had gone a little way down the path when, at the sound of wooden shoes, she turned round.

  • From time to time the clacking of wooden shoes on the hardened ground resounded through the deserted streets, then a door was hastily opened and closed, and all relapsed into silence.

  • I hear the approaching sound of wooden shoes; the peasants are coming to pray.

  • Wooden Shoes rode up and surveyed the half maddened animals gloomily.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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