"as ever trod shoe leather" meaning in English

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          "text": "As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!",
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          "ref": "1825, [John Neal], chapter XXVI, in Brother Jonathan: Or, The New Englanders: In Three Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 446",
          "text": "\"He is a brave Indian, sir.\" – \"Oh – is that all?\" – \"As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather.\" – \"Hum!\" – \"Yes.\" – \"But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?\" – \"He's very brave, I mean – very.\" – \"Why not say so, then?\" – \"I do.\"",
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          "ref": "1830, [Theodore Edward Hook], chapter II, in Maxwell. … In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 54–55",
          "text": "[I]t's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather.",
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        "(idiomatic, archaic) Alternative form of as ever trod shoe-leather"
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