Single Foot

Personally I intend to stay with gaited horses (foxtrotters are my preference but walkers or single-foot horses are just as good) for all kinds of reasons. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All she was able to plant was a little garden that she worked by hand with a single-foot plow and a hoe. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

Jack nudged his horse to a single-foot and headed back toward Deadwood. ❋ STEF ANN HOLM (1992)

Spanish horse should; he trotted, he loped, he paced, and went single-foot, greatly to the admiration of the three spectators. ❋ Various (N/A)

Women will cease to single-foot and learn to undulate when they walk. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

They were gaited animals, with a fast jog-walk and a fine single-foot, small and well-proportioned, with tapering legs and small feet. ❋ Unknown (1923)

When he changed to a single-foot, which, fortunately for me, he often did, I was much less uncomfortable. ❋ Unknown (1923)

I have sternly refused to allow mother to ride Wyoming, on the ground that I would not have her make a martyr of herself in the shape of riding a horse with a single-foot gait, which she so openly detests. ❋ Unknown (1919)

And mixed up in it all we discussed the merits of the fox-trot versus the single-foot. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)

I'm behind you so much on these single-foot trails. ❋ Unknown (1915)

"Perhaps," I ventured, "perhaps you know how to make a horse single-foot?" ❋ Julian Street (1913)

He carries such a quantity of dunnage below in the shape of high boots, spurs, chaps, and cartridge-belts that his gait is a waddling single-foot. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

"It is single-foot" (he meant that there was only one man), "and the weight of the thing has pressed his heel far into the ground." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

To gallop in such weather insures freezing; so the ponies shambled along at a single-foot trot, their dark bodies white with hoar-frost, and the long icicles hanging from their lips. ❋ Unknown (1896)

After a while I heard another horse, and I knew his gait -- single-foot. ❋ Opie Percival Read (1895)