horseshoe

• Now, I never go by a horseshoe--it means good luck So I picked up the horseshoe, and instantly my psychic sky seemed to brighten. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
• I picked up the second horseshoe, and then I had one in each hand I had gone about a quarter of a mile when I saw two more horseshoes right together in the road. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
• The arches of the nave are horseshoe, the transepts very narrow. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
• An old horseshoe, and in the dust beside it a new silver quarter. —  Children of the Tenements
• All the arches display some approximation to the "horseshoe," in a slight inward inclination on either side towards the capitals on which they rest; but the shape is very definitely assumed in each of those immediately contiguous to the transverse curve. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less

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