Listen for the clicking of kicked-up hooves. A white unicorn was kicking up its hooves in the middle of a green-and-red field. -- Joy Fielding, See Jane Run (1991) Clang. Clank. Clink. Clatter. From a distance, the kicked-up hooves of unicorns sounds like the clinking of doubloons or flutes of champagne. Note, however, that depending upon environmental conditions, the clicking of hooves can be quite subtle or even imperceptible. Bruce Coville records that "The unicorns' silver hooves made no sound at all (A Glory of Unicorns, 2000). Similarly, we have this report from Mercedes Lackey and John Mallory: Shalkan's hooves made no sound at all as the unicorn trotted over the surface of the snow. (When Darkness Falls, 2006) Accounts of unicorns clicking their kicked-up hooves in literature include: