Shodden

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash staff before me, shodden at the end with iron. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

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. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

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. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

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. ❋ W. Hastings Macaulay (N/A)

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. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

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. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

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. ❋ Unknown (1838)

But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity! ❋ Orville Dewey (1838)

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. ❋ Unknown (1825)

Uncle Van Swearingen was there, smiting the ground with his shodden staff, and ejaculating, "_Foei! weg! fychaam u! ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

Scarlet-red was the throat, but the paws were shodden with silver), ❋ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844)

When they [opened] the [mysterious] [box], a shodden paper imediatly caught their attention. ❋ Usnsonniboi (2020)

[Do not] unnecessarily use [violent] [words] shodden. ❋ Hercolena Oliver (2009)