The crack of the dry stick under a cloven hoof and the warm scent of the she-bear and her cubs roused none of the old instincts in her.

Golden hoofs, the true story of an amazing mare.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

It will, therefore, include all conformations varying from the so-called 'upright hoof,' in which the toe forms an angle of more than 60 degrees with the ground, to the badly 'clubbed' foot, in which the horn at the toe forms a right angle with the ground, or is even directed obliquely backwards and downwards, so that the coronary margin overhangs the solar edge of the wall.

And here he presently beheld a great grey horse tethered to a tree hard by, a mettled steed that tossed its noble head and snuffed the fragrant air of morning, pawing at the earth with impatient hoof.

Directly above her, as though half-formed and coming down out of the shadows, was the shape of a single enormous hoof.

The sinking of the horny sole is most marked in flat hoofs.

This is the impoverishment that threatens our posterity:a new Famine, a meagre fiend with lewd grin and clumsy hoof, is breathing a moral mildew over the harvest of our human sentiments.

You know there is an old proverb, 'The sheep has a golden hoof.'

The struggles of the furious animal had become dreadful, and every moment I could feel his sharp hoofs cutting deep into my flesh; my grasp upon his antlers was growing less and less firm,

First the five toes, though clubbed together, have each a separate hoof, as in the elephant; then the hippopotamus follows with four toes, and the rhinoceros with practically three.

The trail became paralleled by other trails, narrow and rutted by countless hoofs.

He is not content to answer (though, being a muddle-headed horse, he does use this answer also) that having an undivided hoof is more than pearls or oceans or all ascension or song.

The freezing terror relaxed; the sand crunched away under the drive of his rear hoofs as he flung himself forwardwith firm footing to aid he would have slid from beneath the flying danger, but as it was he heard the live rope whisper in the air above his head.

And immediately afterward the clungk, clunkclungk, clunk of mighty hoofs coming down the passage toward us.

The dull tread of the Horse went past him, and left him unharmed and I heard the monstrous hoof falls going away and away through the quiet house and after that a dead silence.

[Illustration: TENTS AND REINDEER OF THE WANDERING KORAKS] Surrounding the tent in every direction were the deer belonging to the band, some pawing up the snow with their sharp hoofs in search of moss, others clashing their antlers together and barking hoarsely in fight, or chasing one another in a mad gallop over the steppe.

While the footing was soft he urged the wearied horse up the slope; at the first rocky space he abandoned the poor beast lest the floundering of shod hoofs should betray him.

In the badly laminitic hoof, however, this deformity is largely increased, until in some cases the shapeless mass can hardly be likened to a foot at all (see Fig. 122).

It was Alcatraz plodding towards the line of starters, his languid hoofs rousing a wisp of dust at every step.

I heard the patter of light, hard hoofs on the scaly sides of the hollow.

Thou shalt not hear the horsemen With loud hoof rushing by.

O Muse, be near me now, and make A strange song for Ilion's sake, Till a tone of tears be about mine ears And out of my lips a music break For Troy, Troy, and the end of the years: When the wheels of the Greek above me pressed, And the mighty horse-hoofs beat my breast; And all around were the Argive spears A towering Steed of golden rein O gold without, dark steel within!

There had been a runawaya woman on a big, white-eyed bay, that had taken fright at an automobile; a swift rush up the Driveway, a lunge over the neck of the pursuing horse, then a man wrenched from his saddle and dragged beneath cruel, murderous hoofs.

They were still so far distant that their bellowing, and the trampling of their myriad hoofs, only reached the hunters like a faint murmur on the breeze.