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  • During the rest of the afternoon they walked along the beach, picked up shells, inspected "horse-foot" crabs, jelly fish and

    Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • My foot-is a horse-foot; therewith do I trample and trot over stick and stone, in the fields up and down, and am bedevilled with delight in all fast racing.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • My foot -- is a horse-foot; therewith do I trample and trot over stick and stone, in the fields up and down, and am bedevilled with delight in all fast racing.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • It is vulgarly known as the king-crab, or horse-foot; to the latter it bears a striking similarity.

    Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 Samuel de Champlain 1601

  • Europe, such as the horse-foot crab, [49] the black skimmer, and the wild turkey, the latter two of which have long since ceased to visit this region.

    Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

  • We don't give a clod of dung for you, horse-foot, or your flighty mare, but we don't want the Simurgh down on us, so we're leaving all winged man-faced horse-rears alone. "

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

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