Under the illumination of four dim floodlights, all that could be seen was a flurry of dust, hooves and flailing whips.
A herd, almost invisible from the dust their hooves have kicked up, begins to cross.
The hills ahead — stratified mounds of ash, swirling mud, clay and lignite coal, all reds and browns and tans — baked in an unrelenting summer sun, still harsh and hot at 6 p.m. Innumerable hoof prints, stamped in the dust, appeared as the Maah Daah Hey swooped into the open range.
We hear them before we see them, a whispering wind through the trees: a 100-strong herd of reindeer dash across a clearing in front of us, their hooves kicking up snow like dust.
Morning light spills through grass thick with dew, small whorls of dust rise from hooves stamping their lives into this ground.
Dust off the hooves, and re-apply the enhancer.
Nearby, his opponent, an equally massive bull, scraped up clouds of dust with a front hoof and snorted.
Dust rises from the horses' hooves when they run across the pasture.
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He has hauled weed killers, paint thinners, defoaming agents that form a broth in the making of explosives, latex for sandwiching plywood, and dust suppressants that are "kind to horses' hooves".
