cast a shoe

On the morning of the third day the mare cast a shoe.

Half an hour out of Mull, the horse cast a shoe.

King Fergus was leading as they past the stands, but cast a shoe.

Or had his horse gone lame, cast a shoe?

Early in the day Dakon's horse had cast a shoe.

I have had to come out of my way because, as you see, my mare has cast a shoe."

Moonlight had cast a shoe; Alanna couldn't ride her.

If poor Troubadour had not cast a shoe, we should not have had this trouble.

And Thomas-"Pigeon has cast a shoe and cracked his hoof.

A shilling of it is in case of accidents--the mare casting a shoe, or the like of that.

Sihtric's horse had cast a shoe and we waited while he saddled one of the spare horses, then we kept going northwest for another hour.

Near Combwich, Covenant cast a shoe, and two hours were wasted before I found a smithy in the town and had the matter set right.

Only once, three miles beyond Villeneuve, was there the slightest delay, when a horse cast a shoe; otherwise they rolled across Picardy, rolled across Artois with never an unforeseen pause.

What was more remarkable was that on each of these occasions it cast a shoe about the middle of the afternoon, and always when we were within a short league of the village of Aubergenville.

To return to this particular day of sulking; Rex had cast a shoe, and lamed himself just enough to prevent her riding, and so Beatrice was having a dull day of it in the house.

They would have gone today, before noon, but one of the horses cast a shoe and by the time the smith had done with her work, it was threatening rain; so they put off their departure till tomorrow. "

In January 1893, prospectors Patrick (Paddy) Hannan, Tom Flanagan, and Dan O'Shea were travelling to Mount Youle when one of their horses cast a shoe.

So they journeyed, full of this good fortune, until opposite the town of Le Mas, where John's horse cast a shoe, and they were glad to find a wayside smith who might set the matter to rights.

In Roxburgh Street is the outline of a horseshoe petrosomatoglyph where the horse of Charles Edward Stuart cast a shoe as he was riding it through the town on his way to Carlisle in 1745.

The horse cast a shoe; night overtook us halfway home; and it was well on for three in the morning when the driver and I, alone in a light waggon, came to that part of the road which ran below the doctor's house.

"The roads since your lordship became surveyor-general are so good that not one horse in a hundred casts a shoe; and then there are so few highwaymen now that not one robber's plates do I replace in a twelvemonth.

They then speculated that if this were true it might have a folklore meaning and pointed to the connection between shoes and fertility, perhaps exemplified by casting a shoe after a bride as she leaves for her honeymoon, or tying shoes to the departing couple's car.

There is a long-standing connection between shoes and fertility, perhaps exemplified by the nursery rhyme, "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", and the custom of casting a shoe after a bride as she leaves for her honeymoon or attaching shoes to the departing couple's car.