Shod

Examples

• The hoof is split and although it might not get worse soon if shod properly, she could break down if she travels over much hard ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A few days of rest were necessary to recuperate the animals and also to have them shod and put in condition for moving. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark, and as he couched his great forty-foot metal-shod lance we saw his warriors do likewise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. Plato. The Republic.
• Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her clothes were always rather odd, and as a rule slip-shod, yet she wore them with a perfect ease and satisfaction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Old shoes, but newly shod--old shoes, but new nails. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• From world to world His couriers fly, Thought-winged and shod with fire; The angel of His stormy sky Rides down the sunken wire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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