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hoofed
1. none, I ventured out and hoofed it to Wal-Mart
2. As the demon roared in excruciating pain for the last time, it fell on its back with its hoofed feet wildly flailing in the air
3. Behind her was a disturbance; the rustling of leaves, the pounding of hoofed feet, and the dragging of branches could be heard
4. hoofed legs, a few heads, and the recurring arcs of rib cages
5. I left the lawyer’s office, hoofed it to my car and then drove to work, where there were little to no interruptions or complaints for the majority of the day—that is until I got a phone call from Bill Franconi from City Papers
6. The body fed and watered, it was time to provide some food for the mind and spirit, so we hoofed it to the magnificent basilica we had seen earlier
7. A thought came to him: The Govicide Agents traveled this way all the time during the Hamilton investigation while he hoofed around on trains, buses, and ships
8. Africa was dominated by hoofed animals, and primates
9. As I hoofed it up the street, our house in view, the gate a blessed sign that I would be safe in a matter of moments, Sebastian burst out of the bushes, breathing hard and eyes wild
10. He then parked a half mile away from the Holiday Inn and hoofed it the rest of the way through both woods and residential areas
11. He hoofed it hard to a metro station and was about to enter the building and hop on a train when a car screeched to a stop directly next to him
12. I HOOFED it back to the car and started scribbling notes against the steering wheel, trying to capture all the different threads running through my head
13. It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths
14. By this process long-continued, which exactly corresponds with what I have called unconscious selection by man, combined, no doubt, in a most important manner with the inherited effects of the increased use of parts, it seems to me almost certain that an ordinary hoofed quadruped might be converted into a giraffe
15. Assuredly the being able to reach, at each stage of increased size, to a supply of food, left untouched by the other hoofed quadrupeds of the country, would have been of some advantage to the nascent giraffe
16. To reach the foliage at a considerable height (without climbing, for which hoofed animals are singularly ill-constructed) implies greatly increased bulk of body; and we know that some areas support singularly few large quadrupeds, for instance South America, though it is so luxuriant, while South Africa abounds with them to an unparalleled degree
17. Except by assigning such general and vague reasons, we cannot explain why, in many quarters of the world, hoofed quadrupeds have not acquired much elongated necks or other means for browsing on the higher branches of trees
18. The Ungulata or hoofed quadrupeds are now divided into the even-toed or odd-toed divisions; but the Macrauchenia of South America connects to a certain extent these two grand divisions
19. The Sirenia form a very distinct group of the mammals, and one of the most remarkable peculiarities in existing dugong and lamentin is the entire absence of hind limbs, without even a rudiment being left; but the extinct Halitherium had, according to Professor Flower, an ossified thigh-bone "articulated to a well-defined acetabulum in the pelvis," and it thus makes some approach to ordinary hoofed quadrupeds, to which the Sirenia are in other respects allied
20. A priest told me, the devil's the biggest bragger! "As soon," says he, "as you begin to brag, you get frightened; and as soon as you fear men then the hoofed one just collars you and pushes you where he likes!" But as I don't fear men, I'm easy! I can spit in the devil's beard, and at the sow his mother! He can't do me no harm! There, put that in your pipe!
21. A priest told me, the devil's the biggest bragger! “As soon,” says he, “as you begin to brag, you get frightened; and as soon as you fear men, then the hoofed one just collars you and pushes you where he likes!” But as I don't fear men, I'm easy! I can spit in the devil's beard, and at the sow his mother! He can't do me no harm! There, put that in your pipe!
