The horses-a sturdy young sandy-grey mare and a raw, weedy, weather-worn bay-seemed as much part of it as its wooden frame, ironshod wheels, and awning of grimy sailcloth.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The inscription is barely legible, worn away by the ironshod heels of generations of ploughboys kicking against it in their rude play, and where they have not chipped it, filled with lichen.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The showers of bright sparks which flew from the stony road under the ironshod feet of our horses remained glowing in our wake like a fiery trail; and had any one at that hour of the night beheld us both-my guide and myself-he must have taken us for two spectres riding upon nightmares.
"Clarimonde"
Théophile Gautier