... wooden shoes of the Continent would be an inestimable blessing, did any innovator dare to introduce them; at any rate, the clogs of the well-shod Lancashire lasses might be tried as a combination of wood and leather less offensive to British pre- judices ...

... he gave me twopence, which, I have since been given to under- stand by ua ...

... discuss the causes of this general absorption in materialism directly leading to such feelings, the preacher noticed first the clogging influence of the body, ever draggirge the soul-sanctified and blessed though it is-down to the earth, and proving that there ...

... engine and coaches following. Having left the rails the runaway -engines fortunately ploughed through loose soil, which clogged the wheels and assisted the action of the automatic brakes, in! bringing up the coaches within a space ot about eighty 'yards ...