Death showed in van and horse-hoof was shodden with skull of man; nor did they cease from sore smiting till waned the day and the night came on in black array, when they drew apart and, returning to their tents, passed the night there. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter] Reference
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash staff before me, shodden at the end with iron. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
It is the place of honour and has a peculiar sanctity among the Arabs, it being a breach of good manners to tread upon it (or indeed upon any part of the carpet) with shodden feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Some of us went thither after a time, when our horses were shodden and rasped, for although we might not like the man, we might be glad of his tidings, which seemed to be something wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
At first the rain made no impression on the bulk of snow, but ran from every sloping surface and froze on every flat one, through the coldness of the earth; and so it became impossible for any man to keep his legs without the help of a shodden staff. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
A wheel had never entered it — a shodden horse was a curiosity; now, the road is thronged with market-waggons, stage coaches; and carriages filled with idle, curious, or classic travellers, who go to ` the Falls 'to kill time, to increase their stores of knowledge, or to gratify taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Travellers] Reference
Through the sparkling breadth of white, which seemed to glance my eyes away, and outside the humps of laden trees, bowing their backs like a woodman, I contrived to get along, half-sliding and half-walking, in places where a plain-shodden man must have sunk, and waited freezing till the thaw should come to him. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
The shining swords out rang; the blood in streams ran and footman rushed upon footman; Death showed in van and horse-hoof was shodden with skull of man; nor did they cease from sore smiting till waned the day and the night came on in black array, when they drew apart and, returning to their tents, passed the night there. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Where the silken shodden and sleek citizen of the European world would pause and deliberate to explore our wilds, we plunge incontinently forward, and the forest falls before our axe, and the desert blooms under the providence of our cultivator, as if the wand of an enchanter had waved over them with the rising of a sudden moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Hurdis, Or, the Avenger of Blood : a Tale of Alabama] Reference
Scarlet-red was the throat, but the paws were shodden with silver). From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Put a shodden hoof on the moccasin of a red-skin, and, if his rifle be once emptied, he will never stop to load it again ". From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans] Reference
Teased the low back-log with his shodden staff. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
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