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  • The sleds groaned by on their steel-shod runners, and the dogs strained low in the harnesses in which they were born to die.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • The clash of steel-shod soles against the rocks began to be heard, and the man's voice grew louder.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • The sleds groaned by on their steel-shod runners, and the dogs strained low in the harnesses in which they were born to die.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • There was a clashing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and now and again an oath or a sharp cry of command.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • Kama stood outside by the sled, a long, narrow affair, sixteen inches wide and seven and a half feet in length, its slatted bottom raised six inches above the steel-shod runners.

    Chapter III 2010

  • After a time, with a greater clashing of steel-shod feet on rock, he returned.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • There was a clashing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and now and again an oath or a sharp cry of command.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • The square-browed judge likewise dreamed, and all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria -- his steel-shod, mail-clad race, the lawgiver and world-maker among the families of men.

    THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

  • The clash of steel-shod soles against the rocks began to be heard, and the man's voice grew louder.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • The square-browed judge likewise dreamed, and all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria — his steel-shod, mail-clad race, the lawgiver and world-maker among the families of men.

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

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