There are breeds of solid-hoofed swine in some parts of England. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Someday the genetic engineers will come up with a solid-hoofed pig: Kosher bacon!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Kosher-for-Passover Beer] Reference
For it is the largest animals that produce one, e.g. the elephant, camel, horse, and the other solid-hoofed ungulates; of these some are larger than all other animals, while the others are of a remarkable size. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
The pig alone produces both many and perfect young, and thus here alone we find any overlapping; it produces many as do the many-toed animals, but is cloven-footed or solid-hoofed (for there certainly are solid-hoofed swine). From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
The reason why it does not occur in some is that they produce only one young one, for it is not found in solid-hoofed animals and those larger than these, as owing to their size the secretion of the female is all used up for the one embryo. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
We have formerly given the reason why some animals are large, some smaller, and some between the two, and speaking generally, with regard to the number of young produced, the solid-hoofed produce one, the cloven-footed few, the many-toed many. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
But he points out that this scheme omits some types (snakes, sponges), and that below this level the natural subgroups cut across each other: for example, the classes solid-hoofed, hornless, ruminant are defeated by the “overlapping” types pig and camel. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Trojans themselves, and their solid-hoofed steeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
Thus then having said, she turned back the solid-hoofed steeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
Straightway she drove the solid-hoofed steeds against Mars first. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
"No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga.". From Wordnik.com. [Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer] Reference
Thus having said, he turned the solid-hoofed steeds to flight, back into the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
He spoke, and shouting amongst the front ranks, directed on his solid-hoofed steeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
O that now Ulysses and gallant Diomede would immediately drive some solid-hoofed steeds from the Trojans!. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
But Antilochus, deviating, guided his solid-hoofed horses out of the way, and turning aside, pursued him a little. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
More often we have unconscionable yarns about men without noses, or with only one eye, tailed men, solid-hoofed men. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Then indeed did Hector neglect the other Greeks, nor slew them; but directed his solid-hoofed horses against Patroclus. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
From the time of Aristotle to the present time solid-hoofed swine have occasionally been observed in various parts of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
But if thou pitiest him, and it be agreeable to thy mind, thou hast much gold and brass in thy tent, and cattle and maidens, and solid-hoofed steeds are thine. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
(for considered as a solid-hoofed animal the pig is not a large one), and also it is more often cloven-hoofed, striving as it were with the nature of the solid-hoofed animals. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
Ilium, you flying, and I slaughtering in the rear: nor shall the wide-flowing, silver-eddying river, profit you, to which ye have already sacrificed many bulls, and cast solid-hoofed steeds alive into its eddies. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
But Antilochus on his part smote the charioteer Mydon, his brave attendant, the son of Atymnias (now he was in the act of turning his solid-hoofed steeds), having struck him with a hand-stone on the elbow; immediately the reins, white with ivory, fell from his hands on the ground in the dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
"The best man drives his solid-hoofed steeds the last. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
"Son of Tydeus, come now, turn thy solid-hoofed steeds to flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
But straightway urge your solid-hoofed horses against the gallant Greeks, that ye may bear off higher glory. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
But come, direct thy solid-hoofed steeds against Patroclus, if perchance thou mayest slay him, and Apollo may give thee glory. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
But him Dolon then answered, and his limbs trembled under him: "Contrary to my wish, Hector hath brought me into great detriment, who promised that he would give me the solid-hoofed steeds of the illustrious son of. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
"Ye swift-horsed Myrmidons, comrades dear to me, let us not yet loose the solid-hoofed steeds from under our chariots, but with the very horses and chariots, going near, let us bewail Patroclus; for this is the honour of the dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
Ulysses was untying the solid-hoofed steeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
On solid-hoofed pigs, 357. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Laodocus, his blameless companion, who, near him, managed the solid-hoofed steeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
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