hoof-print

Among the big stories this month is an EPA proposal to tax large livestock operations based on the greenhouse-effect methane emitted by their livestock (kind of like a carbon hoof-print).

The Flat Tax: Etymology and Practical Considerations 2009

The nest is a mere pad of grass and feathers placed on the ground in a tussock of grass, beside a clod of earth, or in a depression, such as a hoof-print.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The hoof-print of the Turanian "man on horseback" is stamped deep all over the palimpsest of history.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

Then we would have to kill all our cattle, for so big a space as a cow's hoof-print would breed a billion mosquitoes.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

He finished the trip with raw hocks, a hoof-print on his flank, and teeth-marks on neck and withers.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Penelope laughed aloud as she gazed upon the tangle of hoof-print.

Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 1902

Every blade, twig, bracken-frond, and hoof-print carried water, and the air was filled with the noise of rushing ditches and field-drains, all delivering to the brook below.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

The road by the gate was marked with hoof and wheel, but the macadam had not suffered very much, and already a roller was at work removing furrow and hoof-print.

Lorraine A romance 1899

Now and then the print of the hoof might show in the soft earth of some prairie-dog burrow; then perhaps for an hour Juan would walk on, his eye fixed apparently upon some far-off point of the horizon as upon the ground, until finally they would note the same hoof-print again and know again that the instinct of the wild guide had not failed.

The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

Glimmerglass, and as the seasons went by I often saw his broad, spreading hoof-print on the sandy beach where they two had so often walked in that first summer.

Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals William Davenport Hulbert 1890