wooden shoes

“She was out of the room before she had finished speaking, steaming along like a little red train, her wooden shoes clattering rythmically on the coloured tiles.”

Coroner's Pidgin

“Men and women both wear the heavy wooden shoes called sabots, in which the feet suffer no pressure as from leather shoes, and are protected against the moisture of the ground.”

Jean Francois Millet

“They hung their scarves and caps on numbered pegs along the walls and left their wooden shoes side by side on the floor, hastening on stockinged feet to their class-rooms.”

A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic

“Little Wolff, alas! knew well that his miserly old aunt would send him to bed without any supper; but as he had been good and industrious all the year, he trusted that the Christ Child would not forget him, so he meant that night to set his wooden shoes on the hearth.”

Good Stories for Great Holidays

“She herself was poor and uneducated, her husband was only a miller, with no recreation beyond the beer-garden and a clicking reluctantly off to church in his wooden shoes on Sunday.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters