Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...
...find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper had a sulphurous smell, but for what reason...