"Horse's foot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twelve o'clock I missed my partner's voice and looking about saw only two of the packhorses following. Hitching those beside the trail, I returned to find Burton seated beside the lame horse, which could not cross the slough. I examined the horse's foot and found a thin stream of arterial blood ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... Cayuse” because his ears could catch the sound of an approaching horse's foot long ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... minute," said David, handing them to his companion after stopping the horses. "The nigh one's picked up a stone, I guess," and he got out to investigate. "The river road," he remarked as he climbed back into the buggy after removing the stone from the horse's foot, "is about the puttiest road 'round here, but I don't drive it oftener jest on account of them dum'd loose stuns." He sucked the air through his pursed-up lips, producing a little squeaking sound, and the horses started forward. Presently ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... a sudden, as the vehicle came close to me, Sam, perhaps frightened by the noise and wishing to join me, jumped in front of it. A horse's foot knocked him down. I saw him rolling over, turning round, falling back again on all fours, and then the entire coach gave two big shakes, and behind it I saw something quivering in the dust on the road. He was nearly cut in two; all his intestines were hanging through his stomach, ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant |
