The air was full of the whirl of limbs, the prance of hoofs, and snorts of alarm. |
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Again, horned quadrupeds are all herbivorous, and have hoofs to their feet. |
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The damp snow packed on Blondey's hoofs, so that he was walking on snowballs. |
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The wide-spread hoofs of the addax antelope enable it to travel over sand at a great pace. |
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You can shake off the dust of Saguache from your hoofs till court meets in September. |
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Over the droning of the hymn she caught the sound of a horse's hoofs on the road. |
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And the thunder of galloping hoofs was more menacing than that of the cannon. |
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Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels. |
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He lifted up his hoofs, looked at his gums, and listened to the beating of his heart. |
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His horse's hoofs ploughed into the body of the celtiberian lying on his breast. |
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He was in the middle of his prayer when a noise came over the town, a dunting of hoofs on the causey of the Provost's house-front. |
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The landlady rushed out when she heard our horse hoofs, for she was expecting her husband, who had also gone to pech. |
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Mukhorty overtook them, and struck his hoofs against the back of the sledge in front of them. |
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Gun-wheels, horses' hoofs, feet of men had made of naught the sower's pains. |
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It pawed the ground and stamped with its hoofs, and looked like the leader of a grand army. |
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Then they stopped altogether, and she felt the shock of hoofs upon the splashboard. |
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And old Cheiron clapt his hands together, and beat his hoofs upon the ground, for wonder at that magic song. |
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As in iguanodon, there were three toes to the hind feet, and these were probably covered by strong hoofs. |
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He never troubles about drying their legs and hoofs after their immersion in the pond. |
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None of your gray-blue stuff like the hoofs of tabari, say, but black as night and dense as rock. |
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And she knew they were following Deveny, for she could hear the thudding of hoofs behind. |
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The next afternoon he was riding up the river to the Maltese cross when he heard hoofs behind him. |
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One of the most characteristic points about the klipspringer is the formation of its hoofs. |
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But he heard, leaving the village along the trail to mayaguez, the sudden clatter of a pony's hoofs. |
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The terminal or ungual phalanges of the digits are commonly specially modified to support nails, claws, or hoofs. |
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Breaths come to him in song of the distant Cheviots and the ring of foraying hoofs. |
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On his way back to town from this wild-goose chase, he heard the sound of hoofs. |
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Their heads were exactly like those of the grey rabbit, and instead of hoofs they were toed and clawed. |
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Suddenly the clip-clop, clip-clop of hoofs caused Duane to raise his head and listen. |
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But it was late in the afternoon when the clip-clop of horses' hoofs rang out over the crater of the ranch. |
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The creak of saddle leather and the clop clop of her horses hoofs were all the sounds that disturbed the stillness. |
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They lurched to the highroad and awoke from their sun-soaked drowse at the sound of the clopping hoofs. |
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The stride was about eight feet, the marks as of the cloven hoofs of an ox. |
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He gave you three the127 head, and the hoofs, and the innards, and the tail. |
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Where the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves kicked up by the horses' hoofs fills my soul with delight. |
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I can hear them stamping their hoofs and cropping the rich pasture. |
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And through it all the scuttling of rushing hoofs and champing bits. |
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There was a clatter and rattle of speeding hoofs, which rapidly died out. |
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She liked the rapid gait at which they spun along, and the quick, sharp sound of the horses' hoofs on the hard road. |
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At the sound of horse hoofs the creature grunted, raised its head, and put a great black cat to flight. |
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With this he yoked his fleet horses, with hoofs of bronze and manes of glittering gold. |
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Pride held me there, for I heard the sound of galloping hoofs. |
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The sounding thumps of his hoofs on the ground awoke the sleeper. |
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Clips and empty cartridges, tarnished with verdigris, lay on the ground, which, while wet, had been torn up by the hoofs of horses. |
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Pound, pound, pound, the hard road rang with the thunder of hoofs. |
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It was wide enough for a horse, and showed the track of marcher's hoofs. |
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The rider's horse was blown, and both horse and rider were covered with mud, from the hoofs of the horse to the hat of the man. |
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Then came a rush of catlike footfalls and a clatter of hoofs. |
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The clatter of hoofs was growing louder with each passing second. |
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There came a clattering of hoofs on the road and the sound of male voices. |
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Trained for the fight of his life from muzzle to clean-cut hoofs. |
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From outside came a clatter of hoofs on the cobbled roadway. |
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Splay hoofs and palmated antlers they knew, and they flung their customary patience and caution to the wind. |
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My corselet was torn open under the iron hoofs of the horses. |
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The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of donkeys' hoofs up the paved road below. |
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They bellowed and pawed up the soft earth with their hoofs, rolling their eyes and tossing their heads. |
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He trimmed my fetlocks and legs, passed the tarbrush over my hoofs, and parted my forelock. |
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In another minute we were skulking in the shadow of the kitchen-garden wall while the high-road rang with the dying tattoo of galloping hoofs. |
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We heard the thump of hoofs and wheels booming in the covered bridge. |
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After my swim, while I was playing about indolently in the water, I heard the sound of hoofs and wheels on the bridge. |
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Then there was the clatter of hoofs down the road, and Valdez appeared. |
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That is my welt-knife, like a razor, and he pares his hoofs with it! |
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The winds, however, which swept the valley, had drifted the light snow into the prints made by the horses' hoofs. |
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There was a regular beat of hoofs in the darkness, and a big troop-horse cantered up as steadily as though he were on parade, jumped a gun tail, and landed close to the mule. |
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The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs. |
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Jim accepted it as a mere detail, and at his command the attendants gave his coat a good rubbing, combed his mane and tail, and washed his hoofs and fetlocks. |
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The only reply that he could hear for a little while was the smack of the horse's hoofs on the moistening road, and the cluck of the milk in the cans behind them. |
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