nail-studded

Visiting zoologists would spend months on greasy, icy platforms wearing nail-studded hip boots as they hacked vertebrae and ovaries out of rank carcasses suspended from steel cables.

The Cetacean Century Jennie Erin Smith 2012

Reaching it requires a careful climb across nail-studded boards and wood shards, downed power lines and murky pools of water that smell of decay.

In Shelters, Lives Are Off-Kilter Patrick Barta 2011

He boarded his ferry the usual way: He laid a narrow, nail-studded plank over the water, then scrambled across and squeezed through an open window.

Big Dreams For Ferry, Interrupted Anne Kadet 2011

In Room 103, Marqwon, 16 years old, kicked out of his regular school for bringing in a nail-studded piece of wood, tapped his forefinger in the air as he mapped out his next six moves.

Chess, as a Survival Skill Stephanie Banchero 2010

Past a second nail-studded door, the halls widened and grew smoother.

THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

They led to a nail-studded front door, also tightly closed.

Separate Douglas Light 2010

I was given, I forget by what benefactor, certain particularly fierce red Indians of lead-- I have never seen such soldiers since--and for these my father helped me to make tepees of brown paper, and I settled them in a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

I was given, I forget by what benefactor, certain particularly fierce red Indians of lead-- I have never seen such soldiers since--and for these my father helped me to make tepees of brown paper, and I settled them in a hitherto desolate country under the frowning nail-studded cliffs of an ancient trunk.

H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010

The following are science fiction book series whose label as science fiction embarrasses me, whose continuing popularity puzzles me, and whose fans I feel deserve a smack upside the head with a very large and nail-studded cluebat.

The Worst Science Fiction Series « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

• Among the principle violations that women experience are physical aggression, including kicking, beating, insults, and deep contusions caused by nail-studded police batons; sexual abuse; psychological intimidation and attacks with tear gas.

Laura Carlsen: Honduran Coup Violates Women's Human Rights 2009