De Niese hoofed her way through as if she had been practicing for weeks.

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The exceptions, such as hoofed animals and birds have all descended from five-fingered ancestors.

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Anthrax is a rare bacterial infection most commonly found in hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.

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In recent years, chicken has shown up on the menu boards, mainly to provide beginners with a non-hoofed barnyard option.

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Bath had been pushing for their first try of the afternoon only for the ball to be hoofed clear and David Bory to send Mignoni on his way.

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Isaksson quickly gathered and hoofed the ball up the park as Rangers players complained in vain to the multitude of match officials who had failed to spot the infringement.

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Among the four digestive chambers hoofed creatures possess, it is the cow's reticulum lining that is getting all the culinary play, particularly its protein-rich "honeycomb" lining (shaped and textured like the bee variety).

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Miralem Pjanic's weak free-kick was easily blocked by the wall but the ball was hoofed back into the box where Ciani completely misjudged his clearance, with Mathieu Bodmer thumping the ball across goal for Lopez to divert home.

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Later, in one tidal wave of a night, he comes on to a woman in a bar, gets hoofed in the face by her boyfriend, swings by a gay club for a brief encounter (any port in a storm), and then rounds off the evening with a nice warm threesome.

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