Meaning of as ever trod shoe-leather | Babel Free

Definitions

As ever existed or lived.

archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.”

“As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!”

“"He is a brave Indian, sir." – "Oh – is that all?" – "As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather." – "Hum!" – "Yes." – "But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?" – "He's very brave, I mean – very." – "Why not say so, then?" – "I do."”

“[I]t's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather.”

“I've ne'er heard his name named since I saw him go out of the yard as stout a man as ever trod shoe-leather.”

“It was as finely organized a Church as ever trod shoe-leather.”

“I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young SIMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather, [...]”

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