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Sabots in sentence

26 examples of Sabots in a sentence

All the sabots of the family were beneath the sideboard.
Each took his sabots from under the sideboard, passed the strings of his tin over his shoulder and placed his brick at his back, between shirt and jacket.
Maheu, squatting down before his box in the shed, was taking off his sabots and his coarse woollen stockings.
When they had put on their sabots and shut their boxes, the Maheus left the shed, following their comrades, who were leaving one by one after they had warmed themselves.
No, not very; and they would leave their sabots in the porch.
Along the front of the settlement one heard the sound of doors, then the clatter of sabots along the pavements; the screening women were going to the pit.
There had been a sudden thaw; the sky was earth-coloured, the walls were sticky with greenish moisture, and the roads were covered with pitch-like mud, a special kind of mud peculiar to the coal country, as black as diluted soot, thick and tenacious enough to pull off her sabots.
"Leave your sabots, and come in," repeated Honorine.
Jeanlin set out with hands in his pockets, trailing his sabots and slouching along, with his slender loins of a ten-year-old urchin, like an old miner.
Those who wished to work stood with their lamps, barefooted, with shovel or pick beneath their arms; while the others, still in their sabots, with their overcoats on their shoulders because of the great cold, were barring the shaft; and the captains were growing hoarse in the effort to restore order, begging them to be reasonable and not to prevent those who wanted from going down.
Back you go at once, or I'll go back with you and kick my sabots into your backside."
He repeated:"On we go to the other pits, and you come with us, you dirty devil!"Chaval had scarcely time to get his sabots from the shed and to throw his woollen jacket over his frozen shoulders.
Catherine, bewildered, also put on her sabots, buttoning at her neck her man's old jacket, with which she kept off the cold; and she ran behind her lover, she would not leave him, for surely they were going to murder him.
Bare heads were dishevelled in the air; only the clank of sabots could be heard, like the movement of released cattle, carried away by Jeanlin's wild trumpeting.
Their giddiness carried them on, all were on the road, clanking their sabots, rushing forward.
Their eyes were burning, and one only distinguished the holes of black mouths singing the Marseillaise; the stanzas were lost in a confused roar, accompanied by the clang of sabots over the hard earth.
Yes, the same rags, the same thunder of great sabots, the same terrible troop, with dirty skins and tainted breath, sweeping away the old world beneath an overflowing flood of barbarians.
There was a noise of sabots, and the Levaque woman pushed open the door like a gale of wind, beside herself, shouting furiously from the threshold at Maheude:"Then it's you who have said that I forced my lodger to give me twenty sous when he sleeps with me?"
She was following him slowly, delayed by the painful slipping of her sabots into the ruts; and without raising her head she murmured:"I have enough trouble, good God! don't give me any more.
His little troop was already growling with impatience; it was impossible to flee before these wretches in sabots.
An old miner, however, circumventing the overseers, rushed into the shed; but he quietly reappeared, he had gone for his sabots.
As her feet were bare, he made her take his own sabots.
"You have the sabots.
And no longer venturing to exchange a word in this redoubled anguish, they gloomily replied to the appeals by a roll of the sabots, without hope, only retaining the mechanical need to tell the others that they were still alive.
Something was certainly striking beside his head, violent blows were approaching him; but he had been too lazy to reply, benumbed by immense fatigue; and now he knew nothing, he only dreamed that she was walking before him, and that he heard the slight clank of her sabots.
Many had their sabots in their hands; one could scarcely hear the soft sound of their coarse woollen stockings on the ground.