How To Use One-horse In A Sentence

  • One used to see, on the one-horsed omnibus which in old times represented the locomotion of Madrid, _Serbicio de omnibus_ quite as often as _Servicio_. Spanish Life in Town and Country
  • Then, we had five two-horse wagon loads of goods and furniture, and seven in family; now, our possessions were only a few articles, in _a one-horse wagon_, with an addition of two members to our household! Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
  • It's a one-horse town and it's time to diversify, perhaps," Shirley Tapley, the town administrator, said as she gazed out of her office window at the idle mill. Mill Towns Now Look to Saving Trees
  • It was too big for itself somehow, fourteen storeys high on the edge of a one-horse town. MR STARLIGHT
  • Only odd remnants of the meet, straggling foot-passengers, terriers straining at a strap held by drunken runners -- some in old Beaufort coats, others in corduroy -- one-horse shays of every description by the sides of the road and sloppy girls with stick and tammies standing in gaps of the fences, straining their eyes across the fields to see the hounds. Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
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  • The 40-year-old conditioner started training in 1991 with a one-horse stable.
  • One pair of heavy draught animals with a heavy truck could pull as much as four one-horse drays.
  • Not for some godforsaken one-horse town in the middle of nowhere. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • In 1848 American Agriculturist praised new wagons light enough to be pulled by only two horses. By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available.
  • A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
  • We subrent tracts of this total of 1,580 acres to thirty tenants, charging one and one-half bales of cotton for each one-horse farm. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements
  • These required only a man and a horse to operate, but brought about an overall increase in the amount of rolling stock. By 1890 nearly half of the Metropolitan Street Railway's cars were one-horse open cars, suitable only for summer.
  • The 40-year-old conditioner started training in 1991 with a one-horse stable.
  • The brougham, a one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, is named after him.
  • Somewhat like the wonderful, one-horse shay, I guess … None of us are here forever. All is quiet in 2C. Until the open house.
  • Because the Knicks have been a one-horse team for much of this season, Stoudemire has put up unreasonable amounts of minutes on knees that have both been surgically repaired. 'Melo Mania, but Will He Fit?
  • Not for some godforsaken one-horse town in the middle of nowhere. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • However, when I visited my older brothers in the cities, it was exciting to hear the vegetable and fruit man calling out his wares as his one-horse drawn cart rambled through the streets. Tianguis: itinerant traders in a traveling Mexican market
  • passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
  • Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
  • I like the winter carriages immensely; the open carriole is a kind of one-horse chaise, the covered one a chariot, set on a sledge to run on the ice; we have not yet had snow enough to use them, but The History of Emily Montague
  • This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter. A warped, frustrated old man
  • Grandma Abbey needed a doctor again, and after an anxious wait, he arrived, hitched his one-horse shay to the front-yard post and entered the house where he put his travel-worn black bag on the kitchen table.
  • “So tell me Bart,” she cajoled, “What's a guy like you doing in a one-horse town like Taos?” Bacon and Eggs, 1977
  • With the royal stables under siege near the Château d' Eau, the royal family escaped the Tuileries in three one-horse carriages.
  • Suddenly a one-horse sleigh came running toward Mitsuko and Hideo.
  • Even ‘one-horse, whistle-stop’ towns such as Tadcaster have a proper off-the-road coach park.
  • On the inside, it looked as if the shed was used for a one-horse pen.
  • So it was done and they were on their way back to the little cottage in the one-horse cart.
  • Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
  • Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie D, injured Friday in a one-horse spill at Del Mar, will be out of action for the remainder of the Del Mar meeting.
  • Henry Phillips possesses a sharp wit that is both endearing and crude, a somewhat cynical wit he has honed by performing for too many years in front of too many bored drunks in too many one-horse towns. Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Punching the Clown
  • Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
  • One pair of heavy draught animals with a heavy truck could pull as much as four one-horse drays.
  • It looks like a lovely one-horse open ice sleigh, dashing through the snow.
  • You have any problems with your one-horse bank, let me know. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
  • Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
  • The game has been called the king of one-horse sports and is described as a mix of polo and lacrosse.
  • When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day. Travels through France and Italy
  • There was a little one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The French colony had managed, by sharing the expense, to purchase a cabriolet, a hooded one-horse chaise which held two people inside, and had a "dicky" behind for a servant. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
  • A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
  • In those postwar years, vehicles evolved from plantation wagons drawn by oxen or mules to what Ball called ‘Northern horse wagons,’ then to one-horse and two-horse buggies.
  • Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
  • Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
  • One-horse carts or carriages pulled by four or five horses went back and forth in clouds of yellow dust.
  • Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
  • Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
  • The brougham, a one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, is named after him.
  • Just now a _palkee-gharree_, cheapest of one-horse vehicles, with but one half-naked syce running at the pony's head, and never a footman near, passes the spanking Arabs; the plain turban of a respectable accountant in the Honorable Company's coal office at The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858

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