Crossword-Solution: SPARABLE 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Saw also the slippers which the worshippers of Mars put upon their martial feet when they enter into his temple--slippers without a suspicion of shod, hob nail or sparable, with which the heels of the worshippers of Ceres in this country are armed.

Here, Paddy Sparable,” he added, rising up--“here, you nailroad, assume my office, and rule the establishment till I return; and, mark me, as the son of a nailer, sirra, I expect that you will rule them with a rod of iron--ha! ha! ha!” “Ay, but Paddy Pancake's here to-day, sir, an' he's able to welt me; so that's it's only leathered I'd get, sir, i' you plase.” “But have you no officers? Call in aid, I ordher you.

Sparable, do you keep a faithful journal of the delinquents; and observe that there are offices of importance in this world besides flagellating erudition into reptiles like you.” He then looked about him with an air of vast importance, and joined Hycy on his way to the public-house.

Certain slender prismatic crystals, with an acute 8-sided pyramid, are known in Cornwall as "sparable tin," in allusion to their resemblance to sparable nails, whilst very slender crystals are termed needle-tin.

Upon the completion of this important step, upon the success of which all further advances entirely depended, the assembled crowd gave way to much enthusiastic expression of admiration: three of the workmen, in the ardour of the moment, had the great good fortune to succeed in walking across upon the upper surface of the chain, and a shoemaker from Bangor seated himself near the centre of the curve, and there drove the last sparable into one of those useful productions of his art, called clogs.