[in] the looking after couple of geldings): and that he may not be sent from table, picking his teeth, and sighing with his hat under his arm; whilst the Knight and my Lady eat up the tarts and chickens!

My Stable has been rob'd to night; two geldings

That such a number of horses, mares, and geldings as the said skins will conveniently cover, be flayed (without fear of Mr. Martin!)

Not long afterwards, the king granted a special licence to William Smith and others, to import into this kingdom, horses, mares and geldings; further enjoining them to provide coach horses of the height of fourteen hands and above, and not less than three, nor exceeding seven years of age.

Sir ROGER shewed me one of them that for Distinction sake has a Brass Nail struck through it, which cost him about fifteen Hours riding, carried him through half a dozen Counties, killed him a Brace of Geldings, and lost above half his Dogs.

Sam Softly was bred a sugar-baker; but succeeding to a considerable estate on the death of his elder brother, he retired early from business, married a fortune, and settled in a country-house near Kentish-town, Sam, who formerly was a sportsman, and in his apprenticeship used to frequent Barnet races, keeps a high chaise, with a brace of seasoned geldings.

It was to provide for this difference of use that the practice of castrating horses was inaugurated, for horses that are altered are of a quieter disposition: they are called geldings, as hogs in the same state are called barrows and chickens are called capons.

In short, d'Aurevilly was like a stallion among the geldings of the ultramontaine stables.

Do they think that the geldings were bought in Holland, with charges for breaking in, shipment, insurance, freight, and risk of diseases, to have their flesh melted from their ribs like a cook's candle?" "Ere no'tin' done in all 'e island, but a color' man do him!

here have I been seven years trying to fatten the nags, and they still look more like weasels than a pair of solid geldings.

Mr. Alderman!" "My Lord?" "How fare the Flemish geldings?" "Bravely, and many thanks, my Lord; the rogues are fat as butter!

My back is no sooner turned, than the rascal's atop of one of his master's geldings.' "He'm werry young, master My'nert: no one get a wis'om fore a gray hair.

"Prudent men should manage them with soft words and rich gifts; with these, they become orderly as a pair of well-broke geldings.

Didst inquire the cost of geldings, when last in Holland?"

The preceding dialogue had been so rapid, and question and answer, no less than the ideas of the principal speaker, had got so confused, that, for a moment, he was actually at a loss to understand, whether the last great debt of nature had been paid by la belle Barbérie, or one of the Flemish geldings.