Word: hoofed
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...difficulty to a startling success. Already at hand are Bill's "tense" scenes with his parents,--difficult ones for all concerned, including the audience,--his impassioned outcry, "Why anything? I didn't make myself!" There is the conventional arrival of the baronet off stage to the thrilling accompaniment of hoof-beats. There are those eternal broken sentences which may mean anything. "If I could--", "Perhaps it would be better--", "Then you mean...
...finding large sale for his "Daily Dozen" among the sedentary thousands who crowd offices in the morning, ball fields after lunch, and theatres in the evening; all because science has made life too easy and it is no longer necessary to spend hours stalking one's food on the hoof...
...from the fact that Shylock takes a mortgage on Antonio's fattest calf instead of the conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the claim that the calf cannot be moved without a permit from the board of health, on account of the prevalence of the hoof and mouth disease. While Shylock is debating this phase of the case the frantic manager comes rushing down the aisle declaring that the train leaves in 10 minutes. The whole company leaves the stage and hastens up the aisle singing the farewell chorus from the back of the theatre...
...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...