He senses the muffled booms of the pain's hobnailed boots against his front door, but that's about it.

He was soloing near the limit of difficulty for the day - and with hobnailed boots.

One sounded much like a blank phonograph record played after somebody had walked on it with hobnailed boots.

"I guess," he said, "we'd better buy some hobnailed boots."

Once in a while a hobnailed boot would lash out and kick a rock loose.

The sound of hobnailed boots told him they were Krauts.

Mud nails, which turn shoes into a kind of hobnailed boot, make no difference, in his opinion.

"They have no reason to lace up hobnailed boots and grind faces all day."

He comes into sight, dancing clumsily in hobnailed military boots.

Provo looked as if God had dropped a cigarette here and then ground it out with a hobnailed boot.