Clod-hopping

Farmers, with clod-hopping boots, two inches thick, bolted in when the Vicar’s wife was calling, leaving a strong odour of tobacco behind them, and staying just long enough to explain to the affronted Mrs. Meadows, that they “only stepped in about the toithes.”

What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do at this juncture.

I may call Mr. Milliken what I please; but not you, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.