Sentence examples for on hooves from inspiring English sources

"You can get as many credits for learning to put shoes on hooves as for making iPhone apps".

This can include ear tags with name of farm and/or phone numbers, brands, paint markings on hooves or coat or clipped initials in the hair.

His stride shortens and then lengthens until something almost magical happens: Fredi seems to grow and then begins to float, hovering over the ground with each step like Mikhail Baryshnikov on hooves.

This is a writer of real power and aplomb: "A pig, and particularly a sow, and particularly one watched from behind as it walks, is burlesque in the way of a zaftig and very naked lady, because of the rump, of course, and also because of the way the thighs touch, mincing on hooves that are not unlike small, fancy shoes.

Cloven hooves, in anatomical terms, refers to animals that show even-toed foot symmetry, where the digits of the foot are arranged symmetrically across an axis between the third and fourth toes, and walk on hooves on the last phalanx of the toes (on tip-toes), a posture known as unguligrade (Figs. 3, 4).

They call mature males blue bulls, as their gunmetal hides make them shine like fish on hooves.

Horse always land on one hoof, placing all their weight here.

That particular Irishman had fallen out with Ferguson over the ownership of the cashpoint-on-hooves that is the retired racehorse and stallion Rock Of Gibraltar.

There was no effect of DHA on hoof health.

There were no significant effects of housing system on hoof dimensions, locomotion score or clinical lameness.

But off on hoof the 6-foot, 148-pound Willis would go -- generally alone, embarking on his training regimen of running 40 miles or so each week.