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  • "Mush-on, you poor, sore-footed brutes!" he cried.

    A DAY'S LODGING 2010

  • "Come, mush on there, you poor sore-footed brutes!" he murmured, after several ineffectual attempts to start the load.

    The White Silence 2010

  • "Come, mush on there, you poor sore-footed brutes!" he murmured, after several ineffectual attempts to start the load.

    THE WHITE SILENCE 2010

  • Then I telegraphed the Boss, tellin 'him to ship me six sore-footed mares, Bud Strothers to make the choice, an' to charge to my commission.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • Then they fell back to a walk, a quick, eager, shambling, sore-footed walk; and they no longer were lured aside by the dry bunch-grass.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • The dogs were packing on their backs, and were sore-footed and played out; while I was looking for any bunch of Indians to get sleds and drivers from and go on with the first snow.

    The Night-Born 2010

  • In a valley shut in by high canyon walls, his dogs sore-footed and played out, he saw smoke and heard barking, made his way into an Indian camp and there met Lucy.

    “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

  • The two argued over the number of minutes given to sore-footed center Joakim Noah.

    Chip Patterson: With Del Negro Gone, What's Ahead for the Bulls? Chip Patterson 2010

  • South of 80º we found the going easier, but the dogs were now beginning to be stiff and sore-footed, and it was hard work to get them started in the morning.

    The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

  • “Al-Háfi,” which in Egyptian means sore-footed as well.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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