See the curious provision made by the mayor of London at the request of the farriers to get their bills paid.
Now one of them fell sick of a jaundice and there came a whiteness over his eyes;[FN#553] whereupon the King gathered together all the farriers in the city to treat him; but they all failed of his cure.
By the virtue of the Messiah and the Faith which is no liar, thou makest me with wonder to admire, for all the farriers of our land have failed to heal this horse!
Animals are only shod when the nature of the service requires it; the farriers do not attempt to make shoes to order, but they keep a stock of iron plates on hand, and select the nearest size they can find.
With an eye to business, a few traveling farriers hang about this pass, and find occasional employment in setting shoes.
The farriers said that she had been quite strained in the fillets beyond cure before you had bought her; and that the poor devil, though she might keep a little flesh, had been jaded and quite worn out with fatigue and oppression.
Farriers use it for curing proud flesh in the sores of animals, and when applied to the human skin, the leaves will serve the purpose of a mustard poultice.
In this country farriers give it to horses for bot-worms, and in Germany it is employed as a vermifuge for children.
This liquid is used on very rare occasions as an outward application by medical men; farriers sometimes employ it in the foot-rot of sheep.
Farriers and grooms are in the habit of giving as much as l.
Farmers and farriers use the ointment (blue ointment) to a dangerous extent, as a dressing for the fly, and wholesale poisoning of sheep has been in several instances the consequence.
I had been a short time at my father’s in the country, I found that the farriersand old women performed, either on man or beast, twenty cures for one achieved by the doctors and apothecaries.
We had plenty of charms in those days, Master Jonah, till the farriers came, bad luck to the race!
The result was, as usual on similar occasions, that the horse was led limping and looking foolish to the first stable, and committed to all the farriers and grooms in the neighbourhood.
Not one of these oldest writers mentions them as coppersmiths or farriers or musicians.
The nomadic Gipsies carry on the ancient craft of coppersmiths, or workers in metal; they also make sieves and traps, but in the East they are seldom farriers or horse-dealers.
Many of the ancient historians also, when they speak of armies, give an account of all those persons who were most necessary in them, and of the duties which they performed; but farriers are not even mentioned.
Agricultural Societies have also taken the matter up, and fostered a healthy emulation amongst farriers by instituting practical competitions at their shows.
Economy, of course, is on the side of the article produced by machinery, and all large firms keeping their own farriers find a great saving by buying the ready-made shoes.
There are farriers who travel from show to show and generally appear in the prize list.
Some farriers are partial to a three-quarter-shoe--one from which a couple of inches of the inside heel has been removed.
By treating these accidents as unpardonable, horse-owners rather encourage farriers to disguise them or to not acknowledge them.
In the days when farriers were driven by theoretical teachers to pare out the soles and otherwise rob the foot of its natural covering of horn, artificial protection had frequently to be given to the foot.
School Boards have made the present generation of farriers able and willing to supplement their practice by a study of principles.
This little book is written for three classes of readers--for horse-owners who may interest themselves in the subject, for farriers who are open to conviction, and for veterinary students who have to be examined.
Some of the men pleaded hard for those that were condemned, in the hopes that they might recover, but the farriers knew well that they would never again be fit to carry their riders in the fight.
The farriers went round to examine those which had been rendered unserviceable by their hurts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farriers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
