Horse-shoe

He led a series of strikes on hostile Creek Indians that culminated in the Battle of Horse-shoe Bend, which resulted in the deaths of some eight hundred Indians.

'Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson' 2008

Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse-shoe Fall was thundering and tumbling in my eyes and ears, and the very rainbows that I left upon the spray when I really did last look upon it, were beautiful to see.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Horse-shoe Fall pours its torrent of waters into the dark and ever invisible abyss.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The Horse-shoe Fall at some distance to my right was partially hidden, but directly in front of me were the American and Crescent

The Englishwoman in America 2007

I never could make out how, but somehow or other, from my earliest infancy, I had been familiar with the name of Niagara, and, from the numerous pictures I had seen of it, I could, I suppose, have sketched a very accurate likeness of the Horse-shoe

The Englishwoman in America 2007

I went down another steep path, and, after crossing a shaky foot-bridge over part of the Grand Rapids, ascended Prospect Tower, a stone erection 45 feet high, built on the very verge of the Horse-shoe

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Horse-shoe Fall, with all its accompaniments of majesty, sublimity, and terror.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Horse-shoe Fall — so here we have to cross over to

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Horse-shoe Falls, because they curve inward like the iron shoe.

The Master of the World 2003

QUOTATION: For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) 1989