Yet I was vexed, and rubbed myself, when John Fry spread all over the farm, and even at the shoeing forge, that a mad dog had come and bitten me, from the other side of Mallond.
And being left an orphan (with all these cares upon him) he began to work right early, and made such a fame at the shoeing of horses, that the farriers of Barum were like to lose their custom.
The mare mule, at shoeing time, literally went wild.
Shoeing the horses for the year and repairs to machinery cost $157.
These are instances that anyone can see; but heavy losses due to bad shoeing are constant from other or less evident evils--from the adoption of wrong methods and the practice of erroneous theories.
There are feet which from disease or accident or badshoeing have become, more or less, permanently damaged.
Few persons, however, are aware of the terrible consequences which have more than once attended neglect in the shoeing of horses.
No man of business would pay for shoeing if he could do without it.
Most amateurs judge shoeing by the way a shoe follows the outline of the hoof, but the practical man knows that it is equally difficult and important to fit the surface.
The cost for shoeing alone fell very considerably, but the cost of horse-flesh rose in one year more than £100.
Leaving the sole strong and thick, whilst fitting the shoe to avoid uneven pressure, is the principle of shoeing to be adopted with flat feet.
Many years ago I knew a firm who changed their farrier and system of shoeing for a cheaper plan.
Shoeing makes a difference, and in some cases at once stops it.
It was said to mark the house in which the blacksmith lived, in memory of the shoeing of the woman there.
The blacks led the mule away when the shoeing was finished; and, as they went off into the night with her, they fell to beating her so cruelly with heavy sticks that the blacksmith talked to them with great severity.
But when one hears of horse-shoeing and Homer-- you know one thinks of young men.
The Chinese farriers at Chan-kia-kow are very expert at shoeing cattle and horses.
We had some difficulty in finding shoes to fit, and I warn any future traveller against the nails which they keep for shoeing purposes in the settlement.
At least six weeks more of fair snow-shoeing would be needed to "blaze" out the limit, even if the unknown country before them should turn out to be less broken by cedar swamps and high precipices than they feared.
The snow-shoeing was heavy, and I feared I should not get in before dark.
Ump held that bad shoeing was the root of all evil.
A third was shoeing a horse near the blacksmith shop.
Three men were shoeing horses tied to snubbing posts at ten-yard intervals before the shop.
Cal Harris finished shoeing the colt he was working.
It must be counted as a second shoeing horn, and you will forfeit for the last a bottle of Markbrunnen.
The Mouse-ear is called Herba clavorum because it prevents the blacksmith from hurting horses when he is shoeing them.
It is called Herba Clavorum, because, according to tradition, it hinders the smith from hurting horses when he is shoeing them.
We all knew this to be a mode of shoeing practised by the horse-Indians of the plains, and only by them.
Wild mustangs would have had the hoof naked; while the tracks of Texan or American horses could have been easily told, either from the peculiar shoeing or the superior size of their hoofs.
Mexican horses, if shod at all, would have had a shoeing of iron--at least on their fore-feet.
That there had been Indians upon the ground was now an ascertained fact; the peculiar shoeing of the horses rendered it indubitable.
Indeed, marechal is the French word for a "shoeing smith.
Shoeing two horses in 1784 cost Marshall eight shillings; and a hat for his wife cost three pounds.
The horse was for ever after subdued, and yet his viciousness and his repugnance to shoeing were such that he could only be shod previously by confining his legs with a kicking-strap.
Shoeing restive horses by the aid of electricity is not new, experiments thereon having been performed as long ago as 1879 by Mr. Defoy, who operated with a small magneto machine.
My wit was not fashioned any more for thy amusement than for the shoeing o' thy horse," quoth she.
I, a-shoeing of King Edward with all my might, "by cock and pye!
The trotter is steadily improving not only in speed, but in beauty, and it is only a matter ofshoeing and education to make him step high for heavy harness use.
The care of the foot and the shoeing thereof should leave as much to nature and as little to the blacksmith as possible.
It must not be forgotten in this matter ofshoeing that there are no muscles below the knee and the hock, and the muscles used to move the legs are high up.
Where a horse interferes or forges, certain changes in his shoeing may help matters.
Hard roads, heavy weights to carry and to pull, and confinement in stables developed shoeing as a necessity.
The bloodhound shows no little curiosity as to the shoeing process, as if it were something new to her.
Betty is a sensible horse and enjoys the shoeing process.
Vespasian seems to have suspected that his driver had been bribed to stop by the way, and that he had done so on pretence of shoeing his horses.
Iron shoes are less necessary in places where the ground is soft and free from stones; and it appears to me very probable, that the practice of shoeing became more common as the paving of streets was increased.
The practice of shoeing appears to have been introduced into England by William the Conqueror.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
