Quotes about hoof (12 Quotes)


    Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest-

    Sometimes the protein builds up and the hoof grows out if they do not have enough exercise. That can be terribly painful for the horse, but this was nowhere near the point where it would go to animal abuse. If anything, the four horses were overweight.

    There's a ton of gluing being done now. I don't think it should replace nailing, and the glue itself can be somewhat harmful to the hoof. But it is a terrific way to give the horse's hoof walls a break.

    It's SARS, right It can't be the fact that every cell phone in China comes with a camera built in. This is what it was like watching a buggy whip manufacturer go out of business. I'm sure there were buggy whip guys saying that it was hoof and mouth disease that was killing them.



    The war was policy-making on the hoof. Others who know the prime minister well have shared with me that he has a limited sense of history and poor attention to detail. He and Bush do not come across as international statesmen. Rather, they appear as teenagers, caught up in a childlike excitement about being at the centre of power. Blair might need to be careful where he travels when he steps down as prime minister. After the Pinochet precedent, he might face prosecution in some countries for waging an illegal war.


    Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

    While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

    FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective --brekekex-koax the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof --a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race.

    The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child it needs warding off.

    The back hooves are in the same position, the tail is flaring in the same way, the head is identical although the horns are slightly different. One hoof is going through the snow in both cases, while three hooves are visible. And the water scene is virtually identical.



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