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"We hope to run Imperial Monarch but when we were shoeing him he just had a slight little pulse in his foot, we hope that doesn't turn into anything," he said.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

The Dean confided to Phil and Patches, one day when he had escaped to the blacksmith shop where the men were shoeing their horses, that the professor was harmlessly insane.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

One or two lanthorns just kindled glimmered here and there in the semi-darkness; and in a corner two smiths were shoeing a horse.

From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Weyman, Stanley John

As a child I always thought that the Angels were shoeing the horses which drew the chariot of the sun, and that these were stray sparks from the Heavenly Anvil.

From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith

Three men were shoeing horses tied to snubbing posts at ten-yard intervals before the shop.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)