How To Use Horse In A Sentence

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
He said nothing as he took his horse's reins and mounted up, the pain causing sparks to flash behind his eyes and his vision to fuzz a little around the edges.
A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.

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These are worn on the hocks and protect the horse from injuries.
Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.
A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA
The cordonnet of Alençon is the only one which has horsehair for its foundation. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
He was eighty years old and in a coma when his horse won the Hambletonian Stakes, the supreme prize. Celebrities
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots. 1 Chronicles 18.
The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. Chapter 29
If a haven’t kecked mun right into river, and got on mun’s horse and rod away!” Westward Ho!
Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
a seahorse assurgent
Tom! "he called," yo 'take the gen'leman's horse to the stable, rub him down with a wisp, an' give him some hay. The Boy With the U.S. Census
The horse broke a leg in the fall and had to be put down.
Greg Wood is one of only 150 men and women in this country to devote themselves to the welfare of our horses' gnashers.
The jockey was said to have undergone lessons in etiquette; the horse had not, though it acquitted itself extremely well. Times, Sunday Times
His two motors, a used 7.5 horsepower and a 3.5 horsepower, cost just $25 apiece.
This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
On one of the horses was a slight figure, bound and blindfolded.
Paul Williams is a master of talking horseshit, but even a guffer like him finds it hard to fill pages every week with shite sensationalism about the Irish criminal underworld. Irish Blogs
Horses Wednesday mainly galloped, jogged, or walked, but the first official workouts are most likely to occur on Thursday.
The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look.
Some members in the audience bet on each horse to win, place, or show.
The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
Gippsland's Horse of the Year was announced recently which went to a top-notch racing horse in the region.
Did you know that the green part of the horseradish plant was one of the five bitter herbs served on the traditional Passover seder plate during the reading of the Haggadah?
While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
Similar to a paternity suit, the owners must prove they do not know which horse sired the foal.
Another badge appears on the front of his horsehide fire-cap.
There were horse traders, mule teamsters, and frequent drovers of cattle. 'David Ruggles'
I saw wheel tracks to the right, crossed by similar tracks back again to the road, and I guessed that the postilion had intended to drive his horses down the byroad, but having found it too rough or too narrow had been compelled to return, even at the cost of loss of time in backing. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback.
Others chose to stay in Horseshoe Bay overnight.
One example is bookmaking - punters can now both back and lay horses over the web.
She pulled back hard on the reins, and the horse reared back on its hind legs.
The low cell activity in equine species makes both in-vitro fertilization and cloning more difficult in horses than in cattle and even humans.
To characterize the effect of the sample preparation procedure on the keratin structure, WAXS patterns were recorded for three groups of four horsehair fibers.
Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at the king's will. Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850
Her unicorn hobby horse was a very special gift from Daddy.
Indeed, I know a Scottish businessman who co-owns a horse that is running on the all-weather tracks this winter.
The horses were belled and spancelled near by, feeding on the cane and wild grass, and Polly Ann was cooking journey-cakes on a stone. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
The horse should bend throughout his whole body and not just through his head and neck.
Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
the horse geed
A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
Traditional B-Western themes such as cattle and horse rustling continued, but they were war-related.
She stood in front of him with a horsewhip, wearing a smile and nothing else.
Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
He was not going to conduct his presidency through interest groups, by balancing one constituency against another and engaging in the customary horse-trading on the Hill. The Good Fight
That put the pressure firmly on Best Mate's shoulders with the tension in the crowd palpable as the horses cantered down to the start.
The horse cleared the fence with inches to spare.
So when Synova says "And if you think that the Bush administration has been successful *ever* at putting a story out that they want put out then..." the only rational response is a resounding horselaugh. "I hope this gets you fired, you're obviously stupid.... There's plenty of proof 9/11 was an inside job. Try reading, if you know how.....lololol."
Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt.
Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Yes | No | Report from steve182 wrote 22 hours 48 min ago looks like a skinny horsetail protruding from the center of the chest. QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
Thanks to a swift horse powered by a mysterious elixir, he intercepts Domenico, wounding him mortally.
Small boys waved their hands to us, the water-carrier carrying his tight goat-skin from the wells set his cups a-tinkling, as though by way of a God-speed, and then M'Barak touched his horse with the spur to induce the bravery of a caracole, and led us away from Djedida. Morocco
Most people assume the higher the horsepower rating on the box, the better the air compressor.
He a first - class horseman and musician.
Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
He and his companion presently went out to see after the horse.
I don't understand why a ballet company can't perform fresh new material instead of just bringing out the same old warhorses year after year.
Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The horse shied at the loud noise and threw its rider.
It was horses in the field next to the road. Travels with Rosinante
While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
These included balsam, musk, benzoin, aloeswood, ginger, muslin, thoroughbred Arabian horses, and Chinese porcelain.
He jogged his horse back over to the class as Zeya walked Feoi out of the ring and headed toward the other group.
There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
You can enjoy the Wild West Horse, Hound and Music Show, which will feature barrel racing, trick riding, comic horses, Appaloosa ponies and American Quarter Horses.
This place was afterwards enlarged, and converted into stables for horses; but the old name remained, and now most stables in London are called mews, although the word is derived from falconry, and the hawks have long since flown away. Old English Sports
Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
It had been a cold wet summer; he was 'feart' the owners would think he might have taken more care of some of the animals, especially of the young horses, and he mentioned certain ailments springing from damp and exposure for which he might be held responsible. The History of David Grieve
Ruddy-faced Frank, looking far younger than his 90 years, recalls how he worked with teams of Clydesdale horses, sometimes in pairs and threes for ploughing.
Our woodcut is taken from the improved model produced by Mr. Stokey; no doubt Mr. Rarey took the idea of his gag-bit from the wooden gag, which has been in use among country farriers from time immemorial, to keep a horse's mouth while they are performing the cruel and useless operation of firing for lampas. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
We'll still put bits in our horses' mouths, but they'll be made from temperature sensitive materials and will mould to the individual shape of the horse's inner mouth.
The winner was a horse called Last Town.
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns. Times, Sunday Times
The participants and production crew moved to Oxley Downs, six hours drive from Sydney to the property with 12 buildings, a dilapidated garden, horses, chickens, geese, a cow and 1.300 merino sheep.
The difference in horsepower per cylinder is the cause of rough running at lean mixtures.
I like the way they play by heart, the open polo they play, and the way they ride on horseback.
The horse fell behind in the race.
Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
The horse stood whisking its tail.
The restaurant is the best; an old-fashioned wood-and-leather affair with a horseshoe bar.
Mullan reported that they had several hundred horses with them, many of which were packhorses and ‘most of them were loaded with heavy bales of dried meat and furs.’
When you enter the public domain, you cede control to the horse. Times, Sunday Times
Horses trotted through the dirt streets, pulling buckboards and tally-hos past slower-moving electrified trolley cars.
Nagana and Surra, the trypanosome of horses in Gambia, a trypanosome of cattle in the Transvaal, the trypanosomiases of the Upper Niger, the trypanosomes of birds, Chelonians, Alphonse Laveran - Biography
The most telling signs were an incorrect horse harness and an error in the cuneiform inscription. Times, Sunday Times
The new technique will not be used by thoroughbred racehorse breeders.
We recommend the fun horse and cart ride. Times, Sunday Times
They were not very varied in design and the emphasis was on good luck charms such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes and wishbones, again set with tiny diamonds.
Another stable girl said: ‘The horse did a full double-barrelled kick.’
But according to this new paper, humans who consume horse meat (most often overseas and especially in France, Italy, Japan and Belgium) are at risk for being poisoned by Phenylbutazone or "bute.
Its inner horseshoe of tables remains the premier spot for early-morning dealmaking over smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Times, Sunday Times
This is especially useful for skittish horses and pregnant mares.
Put the cart before the horse.
The three riders rounded the bend, as Garon's front entrance came into view the trio slowed down the pace of their horses and rode alongside each other.
The holsters are hand-stitched using the finest leather, horsehide, cowhide, sharkskin and exotics like ostrich and stingray.
I don't think the scene with the horses really works, do you?
And though it looks attractive, it causes irreversible liver damage to horses and cattle which eat it.
They did not give balls, and Antonia never appeared at a ground-floor window, as some other young ladies used to do attended by elder women, to chat with the caballeros on horseback in the Calle.
One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
EXAMPLE: My brother is a skilled wrangler who can keep a dozen horses calm during a storm.
So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He is a very neat horse and a good mover. The Sun
The horse came to a dead stop and threw its rider over the gate.
But to Escondido resident Waller and others, horses are much more than mere livestock, they are members of the family.
In their homelands a horse would have been sacrificed to the old gods.
Lee had never ridden a horse before.
Less obvious, however, are the deaths from morbilli of wild seals and porpoises in several parts of the world and the equine morbilli in Australia that has not only killed the horses infected, but two of their trainers besides.
If your horse bites, put a drop noseband around his mouth.
Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream.
When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Last night we hitched the horse to the cart and moved here.
Also patron of beggars, hermits, horses, the physically disabled, and the woods.
Horses clattered through the whiteness, their backs and foreheads sporting melting ice dribbling over their dished faces.
He backed his little-known horses in fierce ante-post bets. The Sun
The true features of a man is shown in adversity;the strength of a horse is tested on a muddy road.
The Glen Lyon Millennium Event takes the form of a horseshoe route which follows an old peat track past a flowing burn, replete with deep pools, rockfalls and ancient trees.
What sets this rig apart from lesser designs is the rock-solid fit and precise boning that comes from Kramer's use of horsehide.
Nowhere is that more important than buying racehorses. Times, Sunday Times
The root causes of the horse shortage are year-round racing and a mass exodus of owners and breeders from racing.
The new owners will be able to visit trainers' yards and to watch the horses work on the gallops.
Manchester City football club's old warhorse, still fighting fit at 36, was sent off for fouling after half an hour.
It allows horses to work at varying speeds, from trot to canter on an all-weather track. Times, Sunday Times
Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring. Calder Born, Calder Bred
But people are taking steps beyond moving cows or horses out of harms way.
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
That diamond horseshoe is her lucky charm.
Oliver lashed the horses to go faster.
Monarda punctata, L. Dotted monarda; horsemint; origanum. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
Withal she bought them three good horses and another sumpter-horse; which last was loaded with sundry wares that she deemed that she needed, and with victual. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Boer never rides his horse at the trot, but at a quick walk or canter, and a step peculiar to the country and called ‘trippling’, or, as we should style it, ambling.
Then there was the case of George Godman, whose widowed mother went to the authorities when his master, a tailor by the name of Money, beat him with a horsewhip and knocked him down.
Holmes however was just seen in an exhibition fight, so it might be that the old warhorse will still step in the ring despite what the public would hope.
Agues come on horseback but go away on foot.
The boat was towed by 2 horses on the bank.
Mystra was flush with anticipation as they dismounted, leading their horses up the steady incline of the road.
A painted horse is a quarter horse with colour, not like piebald or a pinto.
There are farriers in the country who rely solely on shoeing hunt horses in the winter months to see them through the summer.
Malloy grabbed her wrist as she reached to place the bit in the horse's mouth.
We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains. Wildfire
Mike Battaglia, oddsmaker at Churchill Downs since 1975 and one of horse racing's most respected handicappers, will be an analyst for NBC at the Belmont Stakes.
When on horseback his legs hardly reached the lower body-line of his mount, and only his extreme agility enabled him to get on successfully. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
They reined their horses up next to the arch.
In addition, there would be a spectator app that tracks horses' positions and provides audio commentary and video content from the weighing room. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, this barely even felt like a movie about animals - it just happened to feature a horse prominently.
horses were clogged until they were tamed
These horses remained together for most of the race.
It is very difficult to control perennial weed field horsetail ( Equsetum arvense L . ).
However, there are some excellent 'old labour 'style policies I'd vote for, unfortunately allied to post-modern, psuedo-sciencey rubbish that reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse (halts to stem cell research, animal experimentation and a promotion of alternative therpaies etc). The murky politics of the Green Party
You don't look gift a horse in the mouth, especially when its nosebag is stuffed with gold. Times, Sunday Times
How do you know whether your horse needs new shoes? Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
Some breed horses for racing and polo. Times, Sunday Times
Nora tightly clutched the horse's reins as she galloped along the countryside.
A Munnings horse on the other hand has a lot of the stable about it - a lot of knowledge, no doubt, and a lot to attract others who know their hacks, hunters and ponies.
As inaccurate as the weapons were, especially on a galloping horse, he would only be hit by blind chance.
He unburdened a horse of its load.
Horsemen compete for a goat carcass during a game of Buzkashi to celebrate Nowruz in Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan on March 21.
Karen Waite, MS, equine specialist with MSU Extension added "If you have a horse and are unsure of its vaccination history, you should revaccinate them to be sure they are protected. TheHorse.com News
Thus it is possible to increase an engine 's horsepower or adjust the way a car handles by plugging it into a computer. Times, Sunday Times
The school consists of three buildings in a horseshoe layout with each building having three stories.
The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle. The Boy Knight
The virus is particularly virulent for humans, horses, and gamebirds.
The horseshoes are first pulled off, which are worth about 4s., the hoofs fetch 8s., the tail 2s.; the tallow is not worth much, the hide is worth something; the shinbones are sold to be converted into cane-heads, knife-handles, &c. A New York Paper States
There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
Jahdo urged the horses into this sliver of open ground and dropped their halter ropes to make them star; d. `Meer? A TIME OF WAR
They were kind enough to send me a box of handy, test-size virgin pieces of horsehide and cowhide, as they came from the tanner.
The haute école of classical equitation includes movements with direct military application, like the capriole which was originally intended to enable a horseman to use his steed to kick an attacker approaching from behind.
The horse plodded up the hill.
They say the tide in the bay comes in faster than a galloping horse. Times, Sunday Times
Horses need to satisfy their desire for space and freedom.
One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
Virtually every high-horsepower racing engine that is built at a professional shop is tested and tuned on a dyno before it is delivered.
To win a Festival race you need a strong galloping horse who can jump well. The Sun
Some animals are fairly resistant to this disease, others such as zebu cattle, asses and horses are not. Chapter 6
The donkeys and horses were gone, and a cluster of damaged buggies stood by the street corner, like unwashed dishes in a sink. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
It would seem as though the historical monopoly on information previously enjoyed by real estate brokerages is starting to disappear, and the profession will involve less horse trading, and there will be a fewer number of more highly qualified and scrupulous agents adding value as advocates to real estate deals, paid not out of the proceeds – which I consider a real conflict of interest – but for their time. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
Each evening the horses were bedded down, fed, watered, cosseted and crooned at.
Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
Ideally you want manure from horses bedded on straw, since the straw soaks up urine and rots down with the manure to produce a great conditioner.

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