ungula

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Stare adeo miserum est, pereunt vestigia mille Ante fugam, absentemque ferit gravis ungula campum.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

Onomatopœia is the suiting of sound to sense; as,— quadrupedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum, 'And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground.'

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the possible borrowing from Ennius Ann 439 Vahlen3 'it eques et plausu caua concutit ungula terram'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

In another famous onomatopoeic line— "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum" —Virgil imitates the sound of a galloping horse, and the shaking of the ground beneath its hoofs.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.

The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum."

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór