hoof-marks

Only remained the hoof-marks in the meadow and the torn hillside to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on.

All Gold Canon 2010

Only remained the hoof-marks in the meadow and the torn hillside to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on.

All Gold Cañon 2010

He buries the stranger in the hole, loads his gold on his horses, and departs with a clash of steel-shod hoofs on stone and the echo of his triumphant voice singing a hymn until "Only remained the hoof-marks in the meadow and the torn hillside to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on."

“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008

  Wide scattered hoof-marks dint the wounded ground;

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

He put one foot down so that his toe touched the front of one of the unburied hoof-marks.

Kaz the Minotaur Knaak, Richard A. 2004

I examined the sand narrowly for hoof-marks, and every now and then found one, but always had the disappointment of finding that it was made by an unshod horse, therefore not a ridden one.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Horses cross the sand and hummocks as nearly as possible on a bee line; but the lava rarely indicates that anything has passed over it, and this morning a strong breeze had rippled the sand, completely obliterating the hoof-marks of the last traveller, and at times I feared that losing myself, as many others have done, I should go mad with thirst.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The more knowing of the party had observed hoof-marks in the track by which they approached the tower, which seemed to indicate that several persons had very lately passed in that direction.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Some twenty yards east of the pool, on the opposite side from which we had approached, there were the remains of a still-warm fire and the fresh tracks of camels and many hoof-marks, telling of the recent halt of a big caravan.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Lieutenant Knowles with three men took them on, further westward, and Sharpe hoped the continuing hoof-marks would delay the pursuit while the Company, astonished at the weight of the coins, struggled into the northern wasteland, up rocks and slopes that no horse could have climbed.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981