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Updated: June 4, 2025
When they left him a few moments previously, he was completely clad in a cotton shirt, cotton jacket, flannel vest, and cotton trousers, secured at the waist with leather straps and buckles. Orman also wore a pair of stout hobnail boots, and had a watch and chain. After the lightning-stroke, however, all he had on him was the left arm of his flannel vest.
Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signer Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahr, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.
And the others present take comfort and are convinced that the Old Country is a long way from going to the dogs as yet. Of course she is, bless her! It was some years earlier that Chatham declared that he would not allow the American colonies to manufacture even one hobnail for themselves. I have no desire now to join the band of those who are urging England so insistently to "wake up."
He slid from me like a thing immaterial, and was off over the moors with a swiftness which might well have baffled any clodhopper, a race whose calves are generally absorbed in the soles of their hobnail shoes.
My ambition will keep my brain at work, I warrant thee." "I pray to God it does not drive thee mad," said Blount; "for my part, if we lose our noble lord, I bid adieu to the court and to the camp both. I have five hundred foul acres in Norfolk, and thither will I, and change the court pantoufle for the country hobnail."
One from the latter place. It was from no less a person than Mr Hobnail, who had taken a great fancy to him. It ran as follows:
We have met before." "True; but I did not then notice your guitar, nor, though acquainted with your poetical gifts, suppose that you selected this primitive method of making them publicly known." "Nor did I anticipate the pleasure of meeting you again in the character of Hobnail. Hist! let us keep each other's secret.
There was a scrap of paper with a Latin exercise bristling with errors, a smooth stone, a shabby, notched knife, a bit of chalk for drawing, an iron arrow-head, a broken hobnail, and a falconer's glove, which Count Lips had given his comrade. The ring the doctor's wife had bestowed as a farewell token, was also discovered around his neck.
We have met before." "True; but I did not then notice your guitar, nor, though acquainted with your poetical gifts, suppose that you selected this primitive method of making them publicly known." "Nor did I anticipate the pleasure of meeting you again in the character of Hobnail. Hist! let us keep each other's secret.
Then silence came, broken only by the rapid footsteps of a soldier hastening from the gate to the castle. His hobnail shoes pounding upon the cobbles of the courtyard echoed among the angles of the lofty walls. When he had entered the castle the silence became oppressive.
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