Once every four years it sweeps into a new country, drains it of cash and then hoofs it, leaving behind several hilariously oversized stadiums and a selection of embarrassed-looking politicians in its wake.
Crace brings his signature combination of atmosphere and exactitude to every aspect of this far‑off world, from landscape and ploughing to domestic interiors and the taste of magic mushrooms (a "reasty mix of horse's hoofs, burnt hair and candle wax").
Camels do not walk on their hoofs.
All four toes of each foot of hippopotamuses touch the ground, and the terminal phalanges have nail-like hoofs.
Also coming into use were animal horns and hoofs, which could be made malleable by heating and then could be cut, dyed, and molded.
The toe bones of camels are completely enclosed in hardened, horny hoofs, and lateral toes spread across the broad pad which aids in walking on desert sands.
Reindeer have deeply cloven hoofs so the feet can spread on snow or soft ground; they are also good swimmers.
Keratin, the structural protein of epithelial cells in the outermost layers of the skin, has been isolated from hair, nails, hoofs, and feathers.
A nearly complete wooden table, found in Egypt and now in the Palais du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, is decorated with swans' heads with graceful necks rising out of a band of acanthus foliage, below which are very realistic antelope legs, with hoofs instead of claw feet.
In fact, the Council of Toledo in 447 ce compared the Devil to a bull: a large, black, monstrous apparition with horns on his head, cloven hoofs, hair, ass's ears, claws, fiery eyes, gnashing teeth, and huge phallus, and sulphurous smell.
a large, black, monstrous apparition with horns on his head, cloven hoofs, hair, ass's ears, claws, fiery eyes, gnashing teeth, and huge phallus, and sulphurous smell.
