They stared at thehoofprints in the road, but there were too many of them to make anything of the marks.
Swinton followed the large hoofprints of the grey.
A little later, as Finnerty went to the spot where Moti and Raj Bahadar were feeding upon limbs the men had brought, he heard Mahadua say to Gothya: "Does a spirit leave hoofprints in the earth as big as my cap, believer in ghosts?
Swinton, who knew the stallion's hoofprints from a former study of them, raised his eyes to Finnerty's, there reading that the major also knew who the rider was.
All the while the fresh hoofprints of the horse and the fresh footprints of the man preceded us.
In doing so he made an alarming discovery; the path showed the distinct hoofprints of two horses that had travelled in the opposite direction.
Almost on the edge of the clearing, in sight of the ravine, the hoofprints showed that the horses had turned off from the trail, and with the evident intention of coming back to it at some point farther on.
Blazing Arrow pointed down to the ground several times, and it looked as if he were discussing the hoofprints which showed so plainly at their very feet.
They asked themselves that, if the hoofprints in the trail had been made by the horses of Mr. Edwards and his wife, how was it that they had got by Blazing Arrow and his companions without detection?
They had not marched five miles before they came upon the hoof-prints of a single horse, and just beyond the point where these hoofprints crossed their trail, the tracks of half a dozen Indian ponies met their eager eyes.
Mr. Park said nothing more, but for the life of him he could not help thinking of those lone hoofprints and of that solitary rider.
But Lorraine and the telltale hoofprints by the rock compelled him to believe that it was not an accident.
They did not really need the dog, for the hoofprints were easily followed for the greater part of the way.
Now and then he was balked when the hoofprints led him to the bank of Granite Creek, but not for long.
But the road showed no sign of a struggle, though there were, here and there, hoofprints half washed out with the rain.
Deep hoof marks closely overlapping, an over-turned stone here and there gave proof enough, and the rain-beaten soil that blurred the hoofprints farthest from the rock told him more.
Beside him Lite Avery, tall and lean to the point of being skinny, followed his movements with quiet attention and himself took to studying more closely the hoofprints in the sandy soil.
Applehead grinned and pointed to the now familiar hoofprintswhich they had followed so far.
Andy and Miguel, riding an ever-widening circle around the machine while Luck was looking for evidence of a breakdown, ran across a lot of hoofprints that seemed to head straight away past the rim-rock and on to the hills.
They picked up the trail of the hoofprints and followed it.
Stacy did so, going over the hoofprints carefully, pointing to them with his index finger as he did so, the guide making mental calculations at the same time.
They came at last to hoofprints in the soft bank of the river, indicating that horses--undoubtedly with men on their backs--had crossed here.
Joe swung out of the saddle and scanned the hoofprints of the horses which had driven the cattle into the Double O territory.
Slim looked down at the trail ahead and something in one of the hoofprints made him pull Lightning to a sudden halt.
There's the same kind of a nick in one of the hoofprints here.
I was the fellow who found out our cattle had been rustled and I got a good look at the hoofprints left by the rustlers' horses.
Hoofprints of three horses were still plainly visible for the men who had stolen Lightning had ridden down the trail at a fast pace.
Where a faint, little-used trail went obliquely down the bluff to the creek bottom, Lance saw again the hoofprints which the rocky ground had failed to reveal.
He urged Coaley up the trail, his eyes somber with resentment whenever he saw the fresh hoofprints of Lance's horse in the sandy places.
Too often had he trailed stray horses in the past to be puzzled now, whether he could see the hoofprints or not.
Deep hoof marks closely overlapping, an overturned stone here and there gave proof enough, and the rain-beaten soil that blurred the hoofprintsfarthest from the rock told him more.
Occasionally he swung his long leg across the rump of the horse and dismounted to stoop down for a closer examination of the hoofprints he was following.
Though this was the immediate destination of Mr. Dingwell, since the hoofprints he was following plunged straight down toward the grove, yet he took certain precautions before venturing nearer.
He was careful to keep where the grass was thickest and would hold no hoofprints to betray them, but the Kid never noticed.
If there had been hoofprints to show which way the boys had gone, the rain had washed them so that they looked dim and old and gave him little help.
There were reports of peculiar hoofprints found where the invaders had been.
They were not the hoofprints of any earthly animal.
Here are horse tracks, too, only most of the hoofprints are made by cattle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoofprints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
