Sentence examples for hoof off from inspiring English sources

There is a belief, particularly regarding Civil War monuments, that a rearing horse means the rider was killed in battle, and that one front hoof off the ground means he was wounded in battle.

We're fans of the RunKeeper application, but the dark blue background and accenting of the current design (see the screenshot at the base of this post for reference) depresses the hell out of us – not exactly a good thing, considering that the app is supposed to motivate you to go hoof off some poundage.

These types of boots open out fully, allowing you to wrap around the hoof without the need to lift the hoof off the floor.

In an appeal to skeptical readers, he adds: "Have you ever shot a cow in the head, slit her throat, cut her hooves off, skinned her, gutted her and quartered her so that you and others can eat?

It's like trying to catch the hoof of a pissed-off donkey.

As gangrene set in, the hoof fell off.

However the witless hoof bounces off Jarque, the deflection beating Iraizoz all ends up and going this far wide of the right-hand post.

In advanced stages, hooves fall off and mouths become so blistered that it is impossible for the animals to chew, Dr. Ahmad said.

"But we cut their whole hooves off.

Muybridge's series was an experiment intended to settle the question of whether horses ever lift all four hooves off the ground at the same time (they do).

In each stride horses lift all four hooves off the ground at once, something that George Stubbs, the most famous horse painter of the last 300 years, had guessed at but which, until Muybridge, had never been proved.