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But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry

Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright