How To Use Percher In A Sentence
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More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
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They bring out the calandrias and the Percheron horses, which are only used in parades, never in charreadas.
Dia del Charro 2007
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First, he is arrested for the murder of the actress, the percheron having been found tethered outside her apartment building.
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Men in black pants and suspenders with white shirts guide plows through the earth by the power of four dark grey Percheron horses.
Mark Cassello: Can America Return to an Indigenous Economy?
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Then, there is the little brown creeper which never perches and is forever creeping, creeping, upward, upward -- save, of course, when it takes to wing -- and yet its toes are arranged in the normal percher style, the hind digit having an especially long, curved claw.
Our Bird Comrades
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The other was a big, coarse-headed horse, much larger than any modern wild horse, and kin to the then existing giant horse of Texas, which was the size of a percheron.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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Crovax crushed the percher to a bloody pulp in his hand and threw the remains on the dying Tharvello.
Nemesis
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Snotty young otter told us we'd find you here, " the other Percheron declared gruffly.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Your true specimen of manuscript reader is the faithful old percheron who is content to go on, year after year, sorting over the literary pemmican that comes before him, inexhaustible in his love for the delicacies of good writing, happy if once or twice a twelve-month he chance upon some winged thing.
Shandygaff
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In the same way he looked on when Jerry fought fearful comic battles with Norman Chief, the great Percheron stallion.
CHAPTER XXXV
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La dsertification, l'amincissement de la couche d'ozone, la destruction de la fores tropicale, les effets pernicieux des pluies acides, autant de problmes criants sur lesquels l'humanit doit se percher avant d'arriver a un stade de dtrioration environnementale de non retour.
Chapter 1
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For city kids to get that close to a belgium or percheron and or see a real pig (the size alone amazed me) is an experience not to be missed.
The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
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All the rest of the year we are the plodding percheron of commerce, patiently tugging our wain; but on that morning there wambles back, for the nonce, the pang of Eden.
Mince Pie
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Them's not legs! them's slips of gutta-percher an 'steel!
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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Having been bidden enter, a burly knight mounted upon a giant percheron rode into the lists, all cased in sable armour and carrying a shield which displayed
Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
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The Percheron 's head is almost as long as Marcel who shrank over the years.
WHITE LIES
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May 7th, 2006 at 11:08 pm rw – perchery for the stool pigeon!
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FM: Well, my third series has a working title of Percheron and this will have a far more exotic setting than my previous two which I don't doubt will be a challenge.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Belle: gray percheron mare (16. 4hh) the one i just brought home is a large black shire gelding and i'm not sure what to name him.
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The same year, the percher was poached again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crovax gave the percher a little shake, and it spoke again.
Nemesis
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Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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Captured by slave traders in the inhospitable desert, Lazar fought his way to freedom, earning the coveted position of Spur of Percheron.
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Draght horses; carriege horses; riding horses; racing horses; ponyies; percheron from france; Belgain from Beljium; shire clyesdale and saffold punch from great Britain; french coach and German coach; contucky saddle horses; through-breads; Shetland ponies; mushstand ponies; pacers and pintoes.
The Prairie Child
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Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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He put on a wonderful demonstration with his four-horse hitch of Belgians and another competitor showed how it's done when he hitched his pair of gray Percherons tandem.
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They introduced further Arab blood into the Percheron breed by covering selected mares with two Arab sires.
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Eos Blog has Fiona McIntosh talking about creating fantasy worlds, specifically for her latest book Odalisque, the first book in The Percheron Saga.
SF Tidbits for 4/3/08
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Tharvello opened his hauberk and pulled out the percher he'd hidden underneath.
Nemesis
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After much shouting and dashing about, a percher appeared, flapping its narrow wings and blaring the message given to it.
Nemesis
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It would sometimes take refuge in a bush, when the lark, not being a percher, would alight upon the ground beneath it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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As soon as the Percheron rocked into a huge gallop, Berndt realized that he would kill his horse if he continued.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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We experimented with teams of Percheron and Belgian workhorses.
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Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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As soon as the Percheron rocked into a huge gallop, Berndt realized that he would kill his horse if he continued.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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However, she soon gave over these attempts at intimidation, perched beside the percher, and again put something into his maw.
The Foot-path Way
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Now all contemporary Percherons share this common heritage descending from the foundation stock that originated in La Perche.
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Loren brought him his percheron, which blew out its lips at the prospect of battle.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Out came a percher, its legs and wings tied with strips of ribbon.
Nemesis
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His son, in his early twenties, had a colt in the crossties, a Percheron, well-built and fit with a black hide that shone like a pair of new boots.
The Dirty Life
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I've also always loved those gigantic draft horses, like percherons and clydesdales and whatnot.
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a registered Percheron
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I’d say one perchery- one obstruction- and one makin a general nuisance.
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The Percheron 's head is almost as long as Marcel who shrank over the years.
WHITE LIES
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i've always loved big draft horses, and i own a few. i have two belgian geldings, a clydesdale mare, a percheron mare and i just purchased an 18. 2hh black shire gelding. my horses names are as followed:
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His percherons competed beautifully in all their classes and took home a handful of ribbons.
