Only by the marvellous cleverness of our unshodhorses and almost miraculous good luck did we escape dire disaster, if not utter destruction, for a single stumble might have been fatal.
Thus does Vicente Castro pay his debts when a man tries to steal his girl,” and the faint footfalls of an unshod horse galloping far out upon the plain.
In a long string the others followed, the clattering of their unshod feet upon the wood sounding like distant thunder.
The naked foot necessitates a different kick than the one shod with a rigid leather shoe; the stroke from an unshod foot is more like a blow from the fist shot out from the shoulder.
Such an instrument is of genuine service in the rough, stony mountain lands, but is not so serviceable as the unshod stick in the irrigated sementeras, because it cuts and bruises the vegetables.
I am in hopes of getting through this glen to-day, for however wild and picturesque the scenery, it is very difficult and bad travelling for the unshod horses; consequently it is difficult to get them along.
The country here being soft and sandy, we unshod all the horses and carried the shoes.
There is abduction of the stifle in some cases, or the toe may be worn in unshodhorses so that it presents a straight line at the surface.
Where spavin develops in unshod colts at three and four years of age, shoeing is not an influencing agency when animals are not worked on pavements.
A little practice in this mode of closing benign puncture wounds will enable the practitioner to successfully protect the sensitive parts in the treatment of such cases in unshod country horses.
Concussion, such as attends hard driving, especially inunshod horses or on rough and hard roads, is often succeeded by this affection.
I reckon you have never seen the track of anunshod horse before, Tom.
If the horses had been shod there would have been scratches on the rock that would have been enough for the dullest Indian to follow, but an unshod horse leaves no mark on ground like this.
The effect of the divine presence must ever be to make nature hide itself; and when we stand before God with unshod feet and covered head--i.
The place of God's presence is holy, and can only be trodden with unshod feet.
May we all learn to tread Jehovah's courts with unshod feet!
If we lose that hallowed tone of spirit which is expressed in "the unshod foot," our service will very speedily become vapid and unprofitable.
Our animals were suffering from want of food, and we left them to scramble up by themselves; the unshod mules, although they made many halts, easily distanced the horse, whose iron shoes clattered in uneasy jerks over the loose stones.
Her feet were unshod and her power of holding on to slippery rocks was positively astounding.
Nothing is gained by keeping the foot flat while starting a load, and to prove this, we ask the reader to observe unshod horses when starting a load.
The gentleman with a fad who occasionally appears in England with unshod horses at work is an unconscious impostor.
This adjusted shoe is designed to imitate the shape of the worn surface of an old shoe or to some extent the worn surface of an unshod foot.
If we examine the unshod foot which has been worn down to proper proportions we find the bearing surface is not level--it is worn more at the toe and heels than elsewhere.
It is not a normal action, and in an unshodfoot cannot occur on a level surface.
In the unshod horse roaming about there is a natural automatic return to proper relative position whenever it has been temporarily upset.
His unshod feet sensed the faint vibration in the metal floor.
Happily, with the noiselessness of unshod creatures, she ran and skipped back to the school room.
Thus, without a sound except for the muffled shuffle of the old mare's unshod hoofs, he rode.
Nothing harder than unshod horses, than goats and sheep, and the soft pads of camels had ever worn these gleaming ways.
He could not endure the suspense, and just as he began to crawfish stealthily along the fence, a riderless, unshod horse stepped leisurely from the gloom and walked noiselessly through the thick dust.
The animal being unshod and the dust being dense, his chances of escape looked favorable, while the men were in Eversole's yard.
Since these movements are complete and spontaneous only in unshod feet, shoeing must be regarded as an evil, albeit a necessary one, and indispensable if we wish to keep horses continuously serviceable on hard, artificial roads.
Hind hoofs grow faster than fore hoofs and unshod ones faster than shod ones.
All these changes of form are most marked in sound unshod hoofs, because in them ground pressure on the frog and sole is pronounced; they are more marked in fore hoofs than in hind hoofs.
I examined the sand narrowly for hoof- marks, and every now and then found one, but always had the disappointment of finding that it was made by an unshod horse, therefore not a ridden one.
Deborah's horse I knew was strong, and shod, but my unshod and untried mare, what of her?
It was not possible to creep along its margin, the forest was so dense and tangled, so we waded the whole way, and wherever the water ran fiercely my unshod guide helped me.
By this time I wished myself safely at home, partly because my unshod horse was not fit for galloping over lava and rough ground, and I asked the men where I should stay to be out of danger.
He had often seen the unshod and unbranded ponies of the high country run along a trail for a mile or so and then dash off across the open.
To ride anunshod horse in the southern desert is to invite disaster.
He was about to return to the shade of the portal when he noticed the tracks of unshod horses in the dust.
The buckskin bored into the night, his unshod hoofs pattering softly on the desert trail.
No unshod hoof prints mingled with the Quahada trail, but there were many distinct marks of shod horses.
When the sun rose, the hoof prints of unshod ponies could be seen distinctly, though in some places the wind had stirred dry sand over them.
Briefly described, a Charlier is a shoe that allows the sole and the frog to come to the ground exactly as in the unshod foot.
If, however, there is a dependent orifice, or one is expected, then it will be necessary either to leave the animal unshod or to provide him with a shoe that admits of dressing the lesion.
Then I remembered the unshod roan of the night before.
The marks proved another thing, moreover, and that is, that here was the same miscreant who had killed the shepherd and carried off the cattle elsewhere, for 'twas an unshod horse that had galloped over Eston Nab top that night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unshod" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
