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The sound of hobnailed boots told him they were Krauts.

"They have no reason to lace up hobnailed boots and grind faces all day."

"I guess," he said, "we'd better buy some hobnailed boots."

Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots.

He was soloing near the limit of difficulty for the day - and with hobnailed boots.

Firm it with a duck-like waddling movement of your hobnailed boots.

The hobnailed boots smashed it like a pair of battering rams.

(From the hobnailed boots that were popular in the valley.)

Those huge hobnailed boots could have kicked a hole in Berkeley Castle.

Our hobnailed boots throw off sparks as they clatter against the courtyard pavement.

He senses the muffled booms of the pain's hobnailed boots against his front door, but that's about it.

One sounded much like a blank phonograph record played after somebody had walked on it with hobnailed boots.

He strode into the gloomy entrance hall, his hobnailed boots ringing on the marble floor.

For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body.

Aggie looked horrified as she caught sight of the horse dung on his hobnailed boots.

Bill could hear the heavy, threatening, stomach-turning, end of hobnailed boots marching down the corridor outside his cell.

In the streets, the two sides have accused each other of waging war with everything from fists to hobnailed boots to baseball bats.

Only now the victim was a foreigner, isolated by language and custom, and George came down on him with hobnailed boots.

The clumping of hobnailed boots on the gravel outside proclaimed the approach of Manning.

Maltz was all elbows, fists, and hobnailed boots, smashing anything that came within range.

He wore oil-covered dungarees, a checkered shirt and thick hobnailed boots.

They kept up the attack however, hurling rocks, waterskins, and even their own hobnailed boots.

Catherine wore hobnailed boots and a cape and carried a stick with a sharp steel point.

Some laborer in heavy, hobnailed boots.

"Just as long as Lonnie doesn't trample all over me with his hobnailed boots in the middle watch."

Main picture Flagstones in the hall have been worn smooth by years of hobnail boots.

'You can see the people in 1911 in their hobnail boots, these little kids.

He emphasized his desire to curb insider trading by saying that the commission would come down on it "with hobnail boots."

If you run over this kid with hobnail boots, I'll make your life a misery, Sam."

Then Pitt recognized it as the heavy tread of hobnail boots moving closer along the wooden deck.

The hobnail boots are warming beside the hearth, and the tobacco pipes rest in a rack on the mantle.

The soldiers of the United Kingdom wore hobnail boots, called caligae.

After a lengthy fight, Jim cut Patsy's throat before stomping him to death with his hobnail boots.

If he wasn't wearing hobnail boots, that was only because they were at the cobbler's shop for the addition of toe spikes.

Little Professors with hobnail boots?

"This smacks of overzealous policemen with little cultural understanding tramping about the Tate in their hobnail boots," he says.

The straightforward, farcical approach of this interpretation unfortunately brings to mind someone stepping on a soap bubble in hobnail boots (2:30).

It looks like someone wearing hobnail boots was hiding in the closet or maybe someone wearing tap shoes."

The occult is kind of delicate, you know, and you can't go blundering around the spirit world in hobnail boots."

They arrive in hobnail boots and tattered uniforms, lugging vintage rifles and worn blankets, ready to fight.

This dangerous chute once had 35 pairs of hobnail boots nailed to surrounding trees as memorials to the loggers who had drowned.

But he said he would also make insider trading and other illegal market conduct a top priority and would enforce the laws "with hobnail boots."

Q. You'll always be known as the S.E.C. chairman who came down on insider trading with hobnail boots.

She told Mr. O'Sullivan that she liked the hobnail boots by the fire, but she wondered whether a patron might someday walk off with them.

Convict coloured stockings and vast hobnail boots finished him below, and all his luggage was a borrowed rucksac that he had tied askew.

With shouts of approval, the crowd rose to their feet, the dwarves stamping in rhythm with their hobnail boots while human warriors banged swords across shields.

I dove into the mass and crawled under people's feet until I came upon a pair of hobnail boots which indicated the lower end of a Roman soldier.

Kraven continues to be haunted by his grandfather's often-repeated aphorism that "history is merely the record of satin slippers descending the stairs as hobnail boots go up."