Indeed, the school and the cobbling often went on together--a fact commemorated in the addition to the Hackleton signboard of the Piddington nail on which he used to fix his thread while teaching the children.
Some Wits have wondered what analogy There is 'twixt[11] Cobbling and Astrology?
The Horned Moon which heretofore Upon their shoes, the Romans wore, Whose wideness kept their toes from corns, And whence we claim our Shoeing Horns, Shews how the art of Cobbling bears A near resemblance to the Spheres.
So this young man here, our nephew and descendant, has been an honor to his beloved relatives and now it's certain that cobbling isn't the thing for him.
And I don't suppose the highly laudable profession of cobblingwill lose any miracle in you, scamp.
Thus Partridge still shines in each art, The cobbling and star-gazing part, And is install'd as good a star As any of the Caesars are.
Cobbling constitutions is rather dangerous work in such times as these; and it strikes me that your valuable health may be somewhat impaired by your exertions.
It's the old woman's tricks to be giving cobbling jobs.
These yokes merely hold the meek animals together, having no adaptation to draft, which is obtained by a cobblingfiligree of ropes around the head, bringing the heaviest of the work upon the horns!
Now, for many days, Nimble Jim neglected his cobbling and let the weeds grow in his garden, while he moodily watched his melons as they withered away.
That you should leave your cobbling alone and be my assistant in the business.
He loitered about for a time, to enjoy the light and warmth of the workshop, and would sit there doing some jobs of cobbling which he had got hold of.
Besides tinkering old clocks and cobbling old shoes, he took to cutting out the pitmen's clothes.
Finding a little spare time on his hands, he took to cobbling to increase his gains, and from this source contrived to save his first guinea.
It was much easier than the cobbling of boots and shoes, or travelling about the country as a pedlar.
Burke was at no regular employment, and yet the money was to hand in larger quantities than they could ever have expected from the cobbling of shoes.
The Wit's Last Stake, orCobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers.
Wit's Last Stake, The, orCobbling Voters and Abject Canvassers, i.
The Beechams had never thought of doing so, since Grandpa had his cobbling and Daddy his photograph finishing.
Now everybody's linked up with everybody else," agreed Grandpa, cobbling a shoe with his little kit.
But since you are so good at names, And make so loud a pother, I'll tell you plainly I'm afraid You're but somecobbling brother.
Besides tinkering old clocks and cobbling old shoes he took to cutting out the pitmen's clothes.
Wit's Last Stake, or the Cobbling Voter and Abject Canvassers.
Jamie dumbly took what was left--cobbling for Barney.
There were things in cobbling she could do as well as Jamie.
It is a peculiarity of human nature that people neglect little bills--bar bills, cobbling bills, etc.
In expounding the law two points were always kept in view by Burgess Potts--the Constitution of the United States and hiscobbling accounts.
So I've been thinking that I'll come to the old workshop, now and then, and do a bit of cobbling just for a change.
He had work to finish in the cobbling line; and besides he had no fancy for any bed but his own.
The shooting occurred in hiscobbling shop, and the gun was found as proof of his crime.
And that was how Lafe Grandoken, laborer and optimist, began his life's great work--of cobbling a ray of comfort to every soul entering the shack.
He cut a big wooden boot out of the side of an empty box, painted it black with axle-grease and soot, hung it up over the door, and announced himself as ready to do all the cobbling and harness-repairing he could get .
Before long there was no cobbler in Greenford because there was so little cobbling to do.
This second draught has been preserved, and affords a curious specimen of the cobbling and trumping up which the procedure underwent, in hopes it might be rendered fit for public inspection.
Was it by virtue of the first or of the second draught of that sentence, which the military erudition found so much difficulty in cobbling up into the form of a legal sentence?
The horned moon, which heretofore Upon their shoes the Romans wore, Whose wideness kept their toes from corns, And whence we claim our shoeing-horns, Shows how the art of cobbling bears A near resemblance to the spheres.
Thus Partridge still shines in each art, The cobbling and star-gazing part, And is install'd as good a star As any of the Cæsars are.
Some wits have wonder'd what analogy There is 'twixt cobbling and astrology; How Partridge made his optics rise From a shoe-sole to reach the skies.
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