She, I suppose, will think it a genteeler business to tinker up a lady's watch than to forge a
horseshoe or make a gridiron."
We shall not try to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedral nose, that
horseshoe mouth; that little left eye obstructed with a red, bushy, bristling eyebrow, while the right eye disappeared entirely beneath an enormous wart; of those teeth in disarray, broken here and there, like the embattled parapet of a fortress; of that callous lip, upon which one of these teeth encroached, like the tusk of an elephant; of that forked chin; and above all, of the expression spread over the whole; of that mixture of malice, amazement, and sadness.
The valley ran from the
horseshoe, land- locked bay to the tops of the dizzy, cloud-capped peaks and contained perhaps ten thousand acres.
He unwound the string, opened the parcel, and took out a bit of metal shaped like a
horseshoe. It was dull and brown, and not very pretty.
"None," says I to him, "except that as one
horseshoe resembles another so are ye the picture of good luck as predicted by the hand of me friend.
"In this bag I have one of the boots which Straker wore, one of Fitzroy Simpson's shoes, and a cast horseshoe of Silver Blaze."
But I should like to take a little walk over the moor before it grows dark, that I may know my ground to-morrow, and I think that I shall put this horseshoe into my pocket for luck."
Barkis must have purchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwards found himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half, in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, in perfectly clean Bank notes; certain receipts for Bank of England stock; an old
horseshoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and an oyster-shell.
It was like striking out a
horseshoe complete, in a single blow.
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the
horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.
In the various smaller holes he carried such things as empty rifle cartridges,
horseshoe nails, copper screws, pieces of string, braids of sennit, strips of green leaf, and, in the cool of the day, scarlet hibiscus flowers.
Various theories have been put forward regarding the purpose of hipposandals, including: | Temporary
horseshoes.
Bush's favorite pastimes was pitching
horseshoes. An AFS Corporate Member helped the 41st president enjoy his hobby, and Bush appreciated the assistance.
From Henry Burden, who invented a horseshoe- making machine that could craft a
horseshoe every second and supplied the Union army with 70 million
horseshoes over the course of four years, to John Deere's plows that aided the Union's harvests, to Jay Cooke's skillful marketing of government bonds, these visionaries and businessmen helped shape history with their masterful mental mettle.
"Nice shoe, Gene-o," a player calls out, as he examines the four steel
horseshoes his opponents just pitched in a pit at the Moose Lodge in Batavia.
