How To Use Hoof In A Sentence
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Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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What's a horse going to tell you about a bruised bone beneath the hoof or an abscess ?
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
The Waverley
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Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
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By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Each patrol day ends with uniforms soaked in sweat, and the soil of the deadland is powder under the hoofs of the patrol mounts, rising and infiltrating boots and uniforms, and leaving every lancer's skin dry and itchy from salt and sweat and dust.
The Magi'i Of Cyador
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We spent a misty day walking through the forests around Forsmark, where the newly fallen snow held the paw prints of lynx and the big M-shaped hoof marks of moose.
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We hoofed it all the way to 42nd Street.
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The days when you could just hoof the ball up to a striker have long since gone; even Wimbledon don't play by these tactics any more.
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I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
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The horseshoes are first pulled off, which are worth about 4s., the hoofs fetch 8s., the tail 2s.; the tallow is not worth much, the hide is worth something; the shinbones are sold to be converted into cane-heads, knife-handles, &c.
A New York Paper States
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Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
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Bio-security measures were in place at the weekend in the area of the Marley showground housing the cloven-hoofed animals.
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bisulcate hoof
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After another few minutes' silence, they heard distinct sounds of hoof beats.
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For eight white-knuckled seconds, he had to try to stay on that jolting, snorting, corkscrewing half-ton of steak on the hoof.
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Yet, even above the clatter of their hoofs did the incorrigible Nanty hollo out the old ballad —
Redgauntlet
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The levy of 30% on cattle exported on the hoof, on the other hand, is aimed at discouraging the export of live animals from the country.
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As if on cue, the chestnut roan he had given her to ride stomped its hoof in agreement, undoubtedly tired and hungry herself.
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Then on, with, the galloping even triplet of the house's hoofs beneath me, as they came down in quick succession, as if the earth were a muffled drum and we were beating an untiring rataplan on her breast.
Mr. Isaacs
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A venogram of the blood supply might be necessary to fully evaluate the condition of vessels in the hoof.
TheHorse.com News
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He fits the saying, “Like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth”
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Walked on th 'bleedin' hoof, too, from Macassar to here, an 'cadged at th'
Gold Out of Celebes
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As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France:
The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
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Upon the same occasion, they sometimes wear a kind of leathern cloak, covered with rows of dried hoofs of deer, disposed horizontally, appended by leathern thongs, covered with quills, which, when they move, make a round rattling noise, almost equal to that of many small bells.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
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If your horse isn't getting enough you'll see dramatic rings and convolutions in the hoof wall.
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It never really came and it seemed as if both Jones and Wilkinson were obsessed with hoofing the ball down the middle of the park.
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These animals had two functional toes on their forefeet and one on their hindfeet, each with hoof-like claws.
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When the animal suffers from podagra it does not shed the hoof, but is subject to a painful swelling in the feet.
The History of Animals
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Barbed and Unbarbed, and feet into Manycleft, and Twocleft, like those of animals with bifid hoofs, and Uncleft or Undivided, like those of animals with solid hoofs.
On the Parts of Animals
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Fred's a smart alec sailor who bumps into his old flame while on shore leave, and it's not long before they're hoofing it to ‘Let Yourself Go’ and ‘Dance’.
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An artificial hoof attached to a machine that mimics the pounding of a horse's stride may help researchers discover the safest racetrack surface material for horses.
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Why go with a guide instead of hoofing it on your own?
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Alternatively you can use a handful of bonemeal or hoof and horn mixed with the soil.
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Horses are measured from the bottom of the hoof to the withers, or the shoulders.
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The scientists have deduced that the ass is the only hoofed livestock species domesticated exclusively in Africa.
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The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations.
Heart's Desire
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You can almost do it on the hoof, you just pick up your device, record a comment and ping it over.
Times, Sunday Times
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A nail; claw; hoof, (Heb. sheheleth; Ex. 30: 34), a Latin word applied to the operculum, i.e., the claw or nail of the strombus or wing-shell, a univalve common in the Red Sea.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
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The hoof pastern axis may be broken forward or broken backward and the heel angle decreased with a low heel (Figure 2-note the low heel angle on this two month old colt).
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This type of farriery brings the break-over point from which the horse pushes off to begin his stride farther back under the toe and helps provide load sharing through the back of the foot, as nature does, because the hoof is continually packed with dirt.
The Last Chance Dog
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Just hoof it high into the stands and have a breather.
Times, Sunday Times
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This little incident led us to reflect upon the most prominent characteristics of bashful young gentlemen in the abstract; and as this portable volume will be the great text – book of young ladies in all future generations, we record them here for their guidance and behoof.
Sketches by Boz
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Just hoof it high into the stands and have a breather.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember seeing her riding hat afterwards: there was a great hoof print on it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nevertheless, their sound is a fitting precursor to the hilarious yet obvious shoutings of Art Brut and the schizophrenic hyper-noise of labelmates like Deerhoof and Bunnybrains.
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Homeward they sped in silence, with little to vary the monotonous pitapat of Lady Ringtail's hoofs in the shallow pools with which the storm had filled the level roads.
The end of an era,
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Capen keeps many aged examples of local brick, including one from an 1800 farmhouse in Frederick with a hoofprint impression likely made by a farm animal when bricks were lying out to dry before being fired in a wood kiln.
Brick facades are sturdy, but keeping them that way requires care
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You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.
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Most of the goats cooperate with the necessary inconvenience of hoof trimming but some are skittish, squirmy, or agitated.
Farm Journal: Harvesting, Husbandry, and Hoof Trimming
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In late August and early September, old bucks will begin hoofing the ground clear, much sooner than younger, smaller animals do.
How to Hunt Trophy Bucks: Old Deer Require New Tactics
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Each man grabbed his share with avidity, and there and then devoured it with such gulosity that, in less than half an hour after its death, only the hoofs remained.
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A third example is foot-and-mouth disease, a highly infectious disease that infects cloven-hoofed animals.
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There had been no warning of his coming — a clatter of hoofs at midnight, a lathered horse in the stable, and Tom had appeared, the salt of the sea on his face as his mother attested.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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You can almost do it on the hoof, you just pick up your device, record a comment and ping it over.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly he heard the quick , short click of a horse's hoof behind him.
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In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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But she stayed well and was one of the toughest horses to set hoof on turf.
The Sun
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Now, though, he has discovered a taste for musicals, and wonders whether a career as a hoofer might beckon.
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Before thy eyes there would have been hurling of ribs and hoofs this way and that; and strips of flesh, all blood-bedabbled, dripped as they hung from the pine-branches.
The Bacchantes
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Miller also virtually invented musical special effects: He made pop records more like a film soundtrack, and utilized extramusical noises, such as dog barks and hoof beats, he said, "to paint a picture in the listener's mind.
They Sang Along With Mitch
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It is appropriate here to repeat the caution often taught in medical school: When hearing hoof beats, don't look for zebras!
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If two call you a donkey, check for hoof prints.
Christianity Today
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But, no, he really does run a dance club, and Maria is soon hoofing it in Geneva.
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—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col.
Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo?
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But that hasn't stopped the lacto-lobby from insisting that rBST is actually a super-duper eco-friendly way to farm 'cause it lets you wring more milk out of fewer cows, thereby curbing a dairy farmer's carbon hoofprint.
Kerry Trueman: You Heard It On Oprah: Factory Farms Stink
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It looks beautiful, though I've always found shoofly pie achingly sweet.
I Break For Shoofly Pie
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* A heavily built, Southeast Asian hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae, the takin lives in small herds in the mountains, often above timberline.
Chapter 8
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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Solid horns, called antlers, distinguish most species in the deer family from the other hoofed mammals.
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There were hoof prints at the watering holes, deer or boar or both.
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_ A murrein take you, I am sure my hoofes payd for't.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
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Yes! gentlemen, "addressing the attentive cowboys," I can cure anything that touches the ground -- biped, quadruped, or centipede -- glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds.
Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery
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That means he'll be spending more time on the hoof, moving quietly through employees' offices, with even less opportunity to indulge his one passion: the 1936 soft-top Bentley in which he tootles round the Dales on days off.
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And need I point out that a pony’s hoof is just about the perfect implement for crushing fragile crockery?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
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Scientists have found the bones of a hoofed grazing animal about the size of a small horse.
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Arm in arm, they hoofed it down the stairway, by now both giggling fit to die.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of the sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
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The two major groups of living hoofed mammals are the Artiodactyla, or cloven-hooved mammals; and the Perissodactyla, or odd-toed mammals.
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It riffs on some other fundamental parts of the tap dance tradition, including the familiar shaven haircut and what's known as a hoofer's line.
Concerto in Rhythm with Tap-Dance Revival
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But the proteins on our outside - in skin, hair, and nail, as well as animal horn and hoof - are of a different kind.
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The bus wheezed up the road to the village of Naggar, where we disembarked, hoisted our packs, and started hoofing it.
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Hoof beats sounded up ahead and the two recognized the heavy clop of unicorn hooves.
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Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue.
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Jerry Travers is an American hoofer arriving in London to help out his pal, producer Horace Hardwick, with a new song-and-dance show.
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Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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There were the rolling eye, the raised hoof poised to kick.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They from the fociety 'of men i' rfwayi have no idea rf our feemg them, fliut up in their hoofes, they have Ipealung to 'diem, and touching lio ctimmunicatioit but with their them without' emotion, or without hulband, their father; their bro - being hurried headlong to'extremi - thcr, or fometimes their coufin.
The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany
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She tapped on tabletops and trod the backs of shirtless he-men, hoofing it up with Ginger Rogers and Bob Fosse.
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Farther out he can hear hoof-beats and voices, so he edges along westward until he comes suddenly to a depression, a little winding "cooley" across the prairie, through which in the early spring the snows are carried off from some ravine among the bluffs.
Marion's Faith.
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But in May 1650, he sold Gorbals to the Magistrates and Council of Glasgow; to be held by them - one fourth for the behoof of the city, two-fourths for behoof of Hutcheson's Hospital and one-fourth for behoof of the Trades’ Hospital.
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While the bacon was frizzling nicely, there was the sound of horses’ hoofs behind us.
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As he heard the clatter of hoofs behind him he looked around and saw a dozen red-skins coming in pursuit, and felt confident that he must have dashed by an ambush they were preparing for him, by suddenly changing his course and riding _around_ instead of _through_ a canyon.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
Waverley
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Had the rearmost hoof of the filly been a few inches left or right of where it landed, then Fallon's injuries might have been much more serious and the championship would be effectively over.
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`We have ginger, ground elder, owl-hoof, hawthorn, hemlock, henbane, belladonna, valerian, foxglove.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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In the terminal stages of this disease, the front hoof falls off, leaving the animal maimed for life.
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With pulses atune to the morning's freshness, the girl galloped rapidly along the shell-road, the clattering thud of her horse's hoofs startling in the quiet.
Diane of the Green Van
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In 1664, Dr. Luke Barber, a Maryland physician, who faced a heavy suit for damages, transferred all of his property to two men “in trust to the only use and behoofe” of his “most deare … Wife Elizabeth … and her heyres for ever.”
A History of American Law
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The vocal arrangement on "Satin Doll" from a Johnny Mercer tribute called Dream was fun, aided nicely by the hoofing, including an appealing Drew Humphrey.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Broadway By The Year -- 1997 Not Vintage But Fun
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There was the sound of hoofs beating into the dirt, and then Reaper—busting through the half-open barn door.
Kings of Colorado
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Ray Cashley hoofed the ball into the net for Bristol City v Hull City in the 1973/74 season.
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War Admiral in a race left part of his forehoof on the track and had to retire until it grew back.
Celebrities
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The simplest way to reduce the carbon hoofprint would be to cut global consumption of meat and milk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of them were quite good at it, having made a living as Broadway hoofers before they went west.
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Henrik Larsson sends a low cross fizzing into the Bulgaria box, but Predrag Pazhin does well to hoof the ball over his own bar and out for a corner, from which nothing comes.
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No doubt Booties and matelots will find this 'hoofing'.
Army Rumour Service
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When _in situ_ it is accommodated by the _Cutigeral Groove_, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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He turns toward home, extends his walk till hind far overreaches fore and every hoofprint is distinct.
Peaceable Kingdom
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I remember seeing her riding hat afterwards: there was a great hoof print on it.
Times, Sunday Times
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To this exhortation, which seemed intended for her sole behoof, the lady answered by an inclination of her head, more humble than Captain
A Legend of Montrose
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Yesterday I saw you wandered in the supermarket. You extended the hand into price checking machine. Screen displayed: The pig hoof is 8 yuan.
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On the heels of Blink's shot came the crack of Happy Jack's "howitzer" as he fired blindly toward the hoof-beats.
The Happy Family
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Instead, he pulls ten men back and hoofs the ball long, to be chased or held up by a willing workhorse.
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In contrast, both sexes of many other hoofed mammals have permanent, hollow horns.
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We switch from playing some good football to just hoofing the ball up the pitch into no-man's land.
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Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
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They heard hoofbeats and turned to see several armed men riding at a gallop towards them.
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To the exact rhythm of our horses 'hoofs and the jounce of our bells, we lined it out: Bells on bobtail ring!
Time and Again
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No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga.
Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
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A large, leather blind was fixed over its head so all it could do was squeal and grunt, plus strike with a forehoof at any unseen humans trying to touch it.
Deuces Wild
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Death showed in van and horse-hoof was shodden with skull of man; nor did they cease from sore smiting till waned the day and the night came on in black array, when they drew apart and, returning to their tents, passed the night there.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There are dozens of less retrograde travelers in whose hoofprints we will also be journeying, for whom the pleasures of Eastern travel were not so strictly identical with the sublime egotism of Western identity formation.
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In the morning when I arose, I found my hoofes shriveled together with cold, and unable to passe upon the sharpe ice, and frosty mire, neither could I fill my belly with meate, as I accustomed to doe, for my master and I supped together, and had both one fare: howbeit it was very slender since as wee had nothing else saving old and unsavoury sallets which were suffered to grow for seed, like long broomes, and that had lost all their sweet sappe and juice.
The Golden Asse
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Any old dunger will do but, for hoofing it on the beach on the way up, a 4WD is a must.
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Last October veterans of that battle sprung into action with a Hands off our Forest HOOF campaign, helped by the coincidence that Labour's leader in the Lords, ex-cabinet minister, Jan Royall, is herself a local "forester".
Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn
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But she stayed well and was one of the toughest horses to set hoof on turf.
The Sun
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Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
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Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world once more, shrouds remains of January thaw: butts, bits of Styrofoam cups, the black-hoofed leg bone of a deer, dragged home again and again and again by our dog; the same bone I heave into the hemlocks each time I go for wood.
February
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It is said hoofer Fred Astaire threw his new custom made fine cut English suits against the wall repeatedly to "knock the newness out of them".
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed
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Has it really taken Hodgson this long to see that negative, blind 'hoofing' football isn't going to bring results?
The Guardian World News
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Dan and I choofed off down to the winery and ran through the latest reds and whites sitting on oak.
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Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
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Scientists have found the bones of a hoofed grazing animal about the size of a small horse.
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I've got a meeting downtown in 20 minutes so I'll have lunch on the hoof.
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Similarly both round-ball and oval-ball England teams pass the ball backwards and sideways quite a lot before hoofing a long ball downfield and straight out of play.
Rugby World Cup 2011: South Africa v Australia – live! | Evan Fanning
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But the Krasians hadn't heard; they were rushing about in a panic as the hoof beats and unpractised howls drew closer.
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Her right hind hoof had a bit of blood on her fresh shod shoes.
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‘I was hammering at that for months together,’ Bishop recalled, ‘for J.F. Bentley’s behoof.
Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop
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The rest of the time is padded out by him interviewing Broadway hoofers past and present and telling us all about the traditions of this ‘Great White Way’.
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To the use and behoof of Richard Rust and Susanna his wife, his heirs and Susanna's forever more.
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The Chuyachaqui is a mythical dwarf with one human foot and one hoof.
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But the Krasians hadn't heard; they were rushing about in a panic as the hoof beats and unpractised howls drew closer.
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And so out into the July night rode Caesar Rodney and the postrider, bound for Philadelphia eighty miles away -- an hour -- two hours -- past the first remount station -- it is nearing eleven o'clock. [_sound of horses 'hoofs and thunder_]
Caesar Rodney's Ride
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Hoofbeats sounded the entry of stallions, astride which young men in crimson costumes performed daredevil stunts.
Sultan of the Steppes
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Als mijn groot ouders een brief naar mijn tante in Californië sturen doen ze dat altijd met een priority sticker (uit mijn hoofd een rechthoekige sticker met een vliegtuig erop blauw met witte letters).
Superficial time!
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Toygan means 'falcon, hawk'; toynak 'hoof'; tirnak 'claw'; tirmiklamak 'to rake, harrow'; tay 'colt' - which trots us off to English hagdon, haggard, haglet, harrier, and hawk.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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Then we choofed off from the little town of Adaminaby and set off for the Snowy Mountains themselves.
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Parking a few blocks from her old apartment, Delilah exited the car in favor of hoofing it the rest of the way.
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The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf.
Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.
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As the bulldog descended, his prey — an outsize boar with a wide “three-finger” hoofprint — sensed its imminent demise, and bolted past Clifford and the trailing pack.
The Boar War
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I can remember things that happened when I was little, like when a steam train came down the middle of our street and my family got on board and we choofed away to a holiday village in the Swiss Alps.
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Deer are supposed to be quiet creatures, but this one made a sound, each hoof crisp on the asphalt.
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Beyoncé's closing set started 45 minutes late Friday night (when John Legend ran overtime), but the hard-hoofing R&B belter treated the sold-out crowd to a visually, sonically and emotionally spectacular 90-minute show.
Jackson honored at Essence Music Festival
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Tony Benshoof took the men's race, Courtney Zablocki won the women's race and Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin cruised to the doubles title.
USATODAY.com - Pikus-Pace slides to third World Cup win, weekly honor
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The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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In #10, *kap-ut gives Latin 'caput' and Germanic *hauβuð German 'Haupt, Dutch 'hoofd', OE 'heafod' Modern English 'head'.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
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The specialization of the marsh-deer, by the way, is further shown in its hoofs, which, thanks to its semiaquatic mode of life, have grown long, like those of such African swamp antelopes as the lechwe and situtunga.
IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
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The horse snorted and stamped its hoof impatiently.
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If they have given caufe for fuch a furmife, it was by choof - ing a reprefentative, who could entertain fuch an opinion of them.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America: With that Constitution ...
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Just two hours from the city, the heart of Amish country-known for shoofly pie and schnitzel-is calling my name.
Monique Stringfellow: It's Daytripping Season
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Fred Astaire plays an aging hoofer looking for a comeback on Broadway.
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Do you remember the scene in Scarface when Pacino was sitting at his desk and he has a mountain of blow in front of his face, and he's hoofin 'away like there's no tomorrow?
Archive 2007-05-01
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Foot In Mouth or Hoof In Mouth….cloven hoof, that is…
Think Progress » Falwell Refuses To Apologize For Lucifer Attack, Swears To Repeat It ‘Over And Over Again’
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She delivered it for the behoof of Mr Chick, who was a stout bald gentleman, with a very large face, and his hands continually in his pockets, and who had a tendency in his nature to whistle and hum tunes, which, sensible of the indecorum of such sounds in a house of grief, he was at some pains to repress at present.
Dombey and Son
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The oak and beech shoe lasts eight weeks while the hoof heals.
The Sun
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People forget that a goalkeeper's clearance should be an important pass, not a hoof upfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then on to ruminant, which verified my initial rumgumption about the cud-chewing, but included, also, a reference to the "ruminantia," which are "a division of even-toed, hoofed mammals" including some which do not chew the cud!
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
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An 'af'erwo'ds, we yo'ng'uns hoof it to Brazil's t'lissen t'uber right fine tribal moosic.
Madrigle Diary Entry
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AS I write this, beneath my window, with a great clattering of hoofs on the asphalt, is passing a long column of mountain batteries, all carried on the backs of our big Government mules.
Mexico's Army and Ours
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I've got a meeting downtown in 20 minutes so I'll have lunch on the hoof.
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Down through the ages education, religion, environment, and other special influences have no doubt played a small part in influencing and determining hereditary characteristics; just as environment in the ages past changed the foot of the evolving horse from a flat, "cushiony" foot with many toes (much needed in the soft bog of his earlier existence) into the "hoof foot" of later days, when harder soil and necessity for greater fleetness, assisted by some sort of "selection" and "survival," conspired to give us the foot of our modern horse, and this story is all plainly and serially told in the fossil and other remains found in our own hemisphere.
The Mother and Her Child
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There was a sound of crashing through underbrush, the ringing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and an occasional and mossy descent of a dislodged boulder that bounded from the hill and fetched up with a final splash in the torrent that rushed over a wild chaos of rocks beneath him.
Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
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But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.
Tehran Winter
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Just inches away there is the deep thud of a hoof or foot.
The Sun
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At the highway, Lucius picked up a rhythm of hoofs and fell to his knees behind a shallow berm, thinly screened from the road by a stand of brush.
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The defender hoofed the ball up the field.
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Cloven hoof is what it is and maybe the clove is the evolution of claws.
Photos: Huge Wild Boar
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The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Then have been hoof - drum clutch, its structure in the solid - bowl clingy reaches hoof.
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Of bellmen, pawing hoofs, and mud-splash'd heels; —
The Age Reviewed
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He halted at a little runlet among the fields, and considered the hoof-pitted bank.
Kim
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We now entered the barren, and the moment the horses dipped their hoofs in the sand, the old 'forker,' seeing the problem to be solved, took the bit in his teeth and started for Picolata.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
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He was all lizard green with horns and hoofed feet like a goat and wings like a bat and a long pointy tail.
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle
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He woke suddenly to shouted commands, drumming horses' hoofbeats, gunfire and screaming.
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Just inches away there is the deep thud of a hoof or foot.
The Sun
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It's the leader of the free world reaching past his Secret Service protectors to shake the furry hoof of a midshipman dressed as Bill, the Navy goat mascot.
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The rich fossil record from the early Eocene Bighorn Basin includes the remains of the most ancient primates, hoofed animals, and carnivores.
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Suddenly he was working on the hoof, with vice-captains chipping in with strong opinions.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the purple segment at the base of the shield is a silver stag, trotting with one fore hoof raised, within a silver ring.
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He was scraping the dirt off of the hoof of a horse.
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The cows stampeded in every direction, running with udders slapping against their underbellies as my wild eyed pet snapped at their hoofs.
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The clop of a hoof, the clack of a plate on a table, the sound of wind slipping past a chimney, the ring of a dropped coin on a cobblestone.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Another time we used an elk hoof from a prior hunt and made "scrapes" in front of a guy's stand - later when we asked him if he ever saw any "signs", he clammed up and said he saw nothing!)
Messin' with your hunting buddies- no advice, just for fun- What's the funniest 'prank' you've pulled on your buddies?
