cobbles
Britishplural noun
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coal in small rounded lumps
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cobblestones
Example Sentences
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His feet were like lead as he stumbled along the sparsely lit alleys and over the cobbles covered with silvery frost.
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We walked across the cobbles in front of the town hall.
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I knew better than anyone that Elodin was cracked as the potter’s cobbles.
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When he had put it on, they went to the stables, and there was his charger scratching on the cobbles with a sparkling shoe.
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A horde of children scampered over the cobbles, playing incomprehensible games with chalk.
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