| They heard hoofbeats and turned to see several armed men riding at a gallop towards them. |
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| He woke suddenly to shouted commands, drumming horses' hoofbeats, gunfire and screaming. |
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| Those we can hear sound like a ticking clock, or in the case of the sperm whale, like horse hoofbeats. |
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| The flinty soil that accounts for those tinny hoofbeats in old Westerns crumbles under the weight of anything heavier than a soft-footed coyote. |
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| It is, after all, a rousing call to action: In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoofbeats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere. |
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| Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede. |
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| You first hear gurgling water, presumably from Ainadamar's springs, then furious galloping patterns, which evoke the violent hoofbeats that the poet heard in his nightmares. |
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