146 Metaphors for horses

Their carriage was the finest on the island and their horses were the best.

Now, according to my author (of whose veracity I entreat the reader to use his own discretion) it seems this Mr. Pounce was an exceedingly good kind of man, and that his horse, Prance, was also an exceedingly good kind of horse; moreover, when the postmaster travelled, he usually put up at the George, where there is exceeding good entertainment for both man and horse.

Their horses are their canoes.

As soon as my horse was a little rested, I set out, alone, on a journey of between four and five hundred miles, part of the way through an awfully mountainous region, and much of it an uninhabited wilderness.

The horses were no trouble, finding plenty of coarse grass among the rocks, and only requiring watering night and morning.

The treaty of 1778 between the United States and France declared: "Horses with their furnishings are contraband of war," In the treaty of December 1, 1774, between Holland and Great Britain it was understood that "Horses and other warlike instruments are contraband of war."

Horses that are used for hauling cars in this manner are generally fed morning, noon, and night; and are able to get out of the way of a swingle-tree, should it be let down so low as to work on the brakes, as it did too frequently in the army.

I think with Sir Francis Head, that all horses are handsomer with their heads held as Nature pleases.

Were I to proceed in the same tenour of interpretation, by which I explained the moon and the lilies, I might observe, that a horse is the arms of H. But how, then, does the horse suck the lion's blood!

Those two horses have been mates ever since I can remember, and I believe if they were separated, they'd pine away and die.

The horses are beauties and we went at a splendid pace.

But though he was so plainly dressed himself, the horse he rode was a noble barb, and its trappings were rich with silk and silver bells.

So that we, who would learn something of this region, must make the journey on foot; for a bicycle would be an encumbrance when crossing the heather, and there are many places where a horse would be a source of danger.

Still as marble sit those splendid riders, the horses are neck and neck; now the bay by a nose, now again the black.

" The next horses Mr. Wood groomed were the black ones, Cleve and Pacer.

As horses were an absolute necessity for the armies of that time, it is easy to imagine that a horse-dealer might gain great political influence.

"HOW MANY HORSES ARE HERE, PICKET?" Picket (a little fed-up).

Odin's horse is the swift, gray, eight-footed Sleipner.

His poor horse, quivering under a blow, is not the worst sufferer.

The horse himself became the shield between him and the white man.

Horses are a good deal like men, you know, Dorseythere's always one that's a little bit better!"

The horse was no flyer, and Marble and I had plenty of leisure to arrange preliminaries before reaching the door to which we were bound.

If horses and dogs were intelligent beings, and still held as property, their opposition to the wishes of their owners, would exasperate them immeasurably more than it would be possible for them to do, with the minds of brutes.

The White Horse was now the leading hostelry of Saxonholme.

The Cossack does not want his horse to be a slave, and recognizes perfectly that horses, like children, have their whims and humors and must be coaxed and reasoned with, but rarely punished.

146 Metaphors for  horses