In the silence between the muffled beat of hooves the Maccabee heard at his ears the quick lively throb of a busy pump.
The next instant the muffled beat of the padded hooves drummed the solid bed of the Roman road, and the shapes of camels and fugitive were lost in blue darkness beyond the town.
Along the level highway came the rapid beat of hoovesand the musical jingle of harness.
Why, these hands beside hers were as satyrs' hooves to anemones!
Over the stunned silence came the sound of the infinite trotting of tiny hooves and a high, wild, youthful yell.
Over the gate he could see the toss of canopies and the heads of camels passing; he could hear the ring of mule-hooves on the stones and the tramp of wayfarers.
He went forward, limping, trying to hurry to find his knife while the drumming ofhooves raced toward him.
It towered above them as it whirled, the tip of its horn fifteen feet above the ground and its hooves swinging around like great clubs.
The unicorns were coming in sight, converging in from the north and east and south, the rumble of their hoovesswelling to a thunder that filled the night.
Unicorn hooves pounded behind him and twenty of them swept past, their riders leaping from their backs to the ramp.
It was a lonely place, the stockade walls fallen and scattered and the graves of Humbolt's mother and all the others long since obliterated by the hooves of the unicorn legions.
Not even a wolf will stay in the midst of the herds; there would be nothing left of him by the time the hooves had passed over.
Here great mountain-heads had run together like bucks in autumn, digging with shining granite hooves deep into the floor of the Cañon.
Hour after hour elapsed, and the day began to wane; but no tracks, not even the print of their hooves on the muddy banks of the small lakes that abounded everywhere, pointed the path the deer had taken.
A trained pig, trotting cheerfully round in search of tidbits, is retrieved from under the hooves of Mrs. Curtis's horse, which is about to go out and dance.
A gentle clop-clop of hooves came trotting down the way: here was a man driving a white horse in a neat rubber-tired buggy without a top.
Horses, too--as could be told by the stamping of hooves upon the gravelled esplanade.
A clatter of hooves answered her before Mark could open his mouth.
Almond drink is refreshing as the tips of cloven hooves to the dried earth.
At war with himself but trying to reassure that same self the plodding sound of approaching hooves was only dried, bullrush stems hitting against his head.
Smoke cold as blue fungus over outside buildings follows horses with hooves to split cobblestones stuck in the city's eye, more than mountains around the stone filled ravines of the rich man's heart.
They struggled on for some time longer, nothing being heard but the clatter of hooves striving on the loose stones.
The dusk fell as suddenly as the natives had warned them, the hollows of the mountain on either side filling up with darkness and the path becoming so dim that it was surprising to hear the donkeys' hooves still striking on hard rock.
The hooves were drumming and the sticks were rattling all up and down the ground, and yells of applause from the English troops told that the Archangels were pressing the Skidars hard.
It was a broiling hot day, and we could not find the horses anywhere till we let Tedda Gabler, the bobtailed mare who throws up the dirt with her big hooves exactly as a tedder throws hay, have her head.
Kittiwynk and the others came back, the sweat dripping over their hooves and their tails telling sad stories.
When five deer came slowly into the meadow, Frosty's built-in ear antenna immediately picked up the thudding of their hooves and a moment later he heard their noisy chewing as they ate grass.
Metal-shod hooves rang on rocks and boulders and the air was cleaner.
Their hooves penetrated grass-roofed runways and now and then plowed into a nest.
When the shuffling hooves of one disturbed a meadow mouse that leaped in wild panic toward the stump, Frosty had only to move aside in order to catch it.
Backing away from the blessedly stationary horse, which still neighed and stamped his hooves at the distant hyenas, Si'Wren began to uncoil the rope as she descended the broad, gently sloping shoulder of the ravine again.
Si'Wren inspected her horse's hooves one by one, cleaning and caring for them as she had been taught, while several men took down her tent and camp gear for her and stowed it away on a pack animal.
He stamped his hooves and neighed, for the thunder of hooves from the invader's horses was shaking the very earth itself.
His hooves clomp-clopped the ground in a heavy rhythm as she caught up to her proper position in the royal procession and slowed to rejoin them again.
Across the camp, Si'Wren gasped at the sight of Borla's crumpled black form being trampled under the hooves of the enemy's rampaging horse soldiers.
The black continued stamping his hooves and neighing loudly, rearing animatedly several times to show his readiness to defend himself from all comers.
Suddenly she was up and riding, with the black stallion's hooves pounding the earth in a thundering tempo as he carried her swiftly away and left all behind.
The secret lies in the specially adapted hooves with bottoms that cling to smooth surfaces like crepe rubber and edges that cut into snow and ice or gain a purchase on the smallest projections of the rocks.
Should the calf be molested it emits a shrill squeal and the cow charges in with sharp hooves flashing.
The condition of teeth and hooves is a more accurate indication of age even though this method lacks prestige of the time-honored system of points.
A band of them in deep snow will stay together and their hooves will soon tramp down the snow over a small area.
Hooves black, horns also black except for the light tips on those of older males.
Instantly it struck fire out of its hooves and sprang down the side of a hill.
And no sooner had the Slight Red Steed put his hooves on the Island than he galloped straight to the middle of it.
Lend me your goat, and when I come back from the Hill of Horns I will plate his horns with gold and shoe his hooves with silver.
Daoud even saw one fall under the hooves of the cardinal's horse.
As he felt his galloping horse's hooves leave the ground, Daoud released the string.
He crashed to the ground and disappeared under the hooves of the horses behind his.
The hooves came down, and the charger leapt forward.
Simon listened to the drumming hooves behind him on the dirt road and thought, I will be hearing this sound all day long every day for months.
From the street she heard swords clanging, men screaming and cursing, and hooves pounding.
With a clattering of hooves on cobblestones, three mounted men rode down the street, looking up at buildings.
The drum was still beating a rapid tattoo in the near distance, joined now by horses' hooves clattering on the cobblestones.
The cardinal's war-horse reared up over Manfred, hooves flailing.
He rocked to the jolting as the horse's hooves hit the ground.
Footmen kept slaying footmen and horsemen kept slaying horsemen with the sword, and the dust of the plain rose up, stirred by the thundering hooves of the horses.
With its high horse-hair crest it rolled beneath thehooves of the horses.
At this season of the year his forehead wore no antlers, indeed, but in his great knife-edged fore-hooves he possessed terrible weapons which he could wield with deadly dexterity.
The bull stopped so abruptly that his hooves ploughed up the sand.
Auguste heard the soft clip-clop of a horse's hooves and the creak of carriage wheels and raised a hand to alert the others.
He heard the creaking of wagon wheels and the soft clip-clop of horses' hooves as the cart carrying Guichard and Elysée rolled past the funeral procession and drew up alongside him.
He was about to step out on the prairie when he heard the rumble of hooves coming toward him.
In the fenced-off corral dozens of horses stamped their hooves and blew steamy breath into the gray sky.
The beat of hooves sounded hollow among the trees.
Numbly, Auguste felt himself being led toward the great lodge, his pony's hooves falling softly on white petals.
Then said she:--I have heard, O auspicious King, that the Princess after farewelling the Fakir straightway bestrode her steed and threw the ball in front of his hooves as she had been bidden do.
Now Kasim had heard from within the cave the horse hooves drawing nigh and yet nigher; and he fell down to the ground in a fit of fear never doubting that it was the clatter of the banditti who would slaughter him without fail.
But the night was keenly edged with frost and as the plodding mount splashed across shallow fords its hooves broke through a thin rime of ice.
Having arrived, he lay belly-down on a titanic bowlder in time to hear the cuppy thud of unshodhooves on the soft road and, a little later, to see Black Tom dismount and hitch.
With an acquiescent nod, Henderson relapsed into silence and they rode in the starlight without sound save the thud of cuppy hooves on muddy byways, the straining creak of stirrup straps and a clinking of bit-rings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hooves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
