The sound of barking cows and thundering hoofs is the last thing you want to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Tactics for Hunting Elk] Reference

There was a patter of hoofs; the sheep were coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Slone strained his ears for the thud of hoofs on sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Suddenly the clatter of hoofs was heard from the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

"You've shown them what a pair of hind hoofs look like.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

He crashed down over the stone steps, both front hoofs at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Just then there was a sound of galloping hoofs on the pike, and loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference

We can imagine the clattering of the hoofs on the hard stones of the Via.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Boomerang, feeling the slats under his hoofs moving away, started forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

Their horses 'hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah] Reference

Tom listened and heard a faint clatter of hoofs, growing louder and louder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

The bits of snow that were flung off by their hoofs were like pieces of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

Even the noise of the horses 'hoofs was deadened by the deep mud of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

Nagger neighed a blast in reply and pounded the rock with his iron-shod hoofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

We stood unmoving there at the bridle path as the muffled thud of hoofs receded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moving Day] Reference

Sand-cracks commonly occur in hoofs that are dry and brittle and have thin walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The sound of wheels and horse-hoofs died away in the lanes, and all was very still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

I heard the sound of the horses 'hoofs on the paving as the carriage drew out of the court.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The money would go to the Taliban, who in turn would storm in on horse-hoofs and balkanize India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunil Sharan: Enemy in Need can be Friend Indeed] Reference

Where the track had been well packed by former sleighs, the ponies 'hoofs rang as though on iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

It develops seldom-used horns or natural armour just as readily as constantly-used hoofs or teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

The sound of hoofs and the rattle of a dog-cart beyond the wall sent us hurrying to the courtyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

The hoofs of the horses were broken whilst the stoutest of the enemies fled amain, and fell headlong down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference

Before she had decided what to do they all three heard horses 'hoofs trampling down bush-wood and dry twigs not far away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Immigrant] Reference

Presently a clattering of hoofs was heard, and looking toward the sound, I perceived the Chancellor cantering down the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

At last there was a stamping of horses 'hoofs on the cold, frozen ground outside, followed by a violent ringing of the door-bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

No; at the sound of your horse's hoofs, the smiling face of a young girl peeps out from the ivy, whitened with the dust from the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In the clouds of dust raised by the wheels of the wagons and the hoofs of the horses Jean beheld, not the second mounted battery of the 9th.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference