Quotes About Horse

The late arrival of the horse in India is not surprising since the horse is not an animal indigenous to India. Even on the west Asian scene, its presence is not registered until the second millennium BC. The horse was unimportant, ritually and functionally, to the Indus civilization.

So along with the whiskey and perfume and smoke, she often exuded faint undertones of hay, dust, and the fragrance of horse, which once you smell it you always miss it. Humans were meant to live with the horse.

The sky was packed which by appearing endless seems inevitable. The flag droops straight down. The horse in dry sand walks with a chirping noise from friction of the particles and counterarguments like pack ice puff in the waves there, blowing fountains of pearl. The ground.

He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.

This is thrice I have been forced to retrieve my horse from your vile clutches. And why is it, mistress, you feel the need to snatch my poor beast each time?" Damn the woman if she didn't pat Horse in a most proprietary manner and look at the beast with a great amount of unwarranted affection. "Because he likes me," she said, looking back at Richard coolly.

What?" Richard demanded. John merely shook his head and smiled. "She rides very well." "What?" Richard turned to see his horse's rump now far in the distance. "Damn that woman!

like the horse in the old ballads, which Romanticism found in the medieval castle and left in the streets of our own century. The Romanticists rode the poor best until he was so nearly dead that he finally lay down in the gutter, where the realists found him, his flesh eaten away by sores and worms, and, out of pity, carried him away to their books.

A man's lip is not like the paw of Attila's horse, which sterilized the ground which it struck; it is just the opposite. ?Chapter

Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings

The unexpected makings of a smile tugged at her lips. Here he was, hurt and wounded, and he was concerned about his horse. How very like a man.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

To ABATE [only in 1755 edition] (ABATE)   [in horsemanship.] A horse is said to abate or take down his curvets; when working upon curvets, he puts his two hind-legs to the ground both at once, and observes the same exactness in all the times.Dict.   

AMBURY  (A'MBURY)   n.s.A bloody wart on any part of a horse's body.

She named her horse Basil? That's the worst name for a horse I ever heard.

Si je voyais du sang, je serais plus tranquille. Ah! J'ai déjà cent fois saisi un couteau pour faire cesser l'oppression de mon cœur. L'on parle d'une noble race de chevaux qui, quand ils sont échauffés et surmenés, s'ouvrent eux-mêmes, par instinct, une vaine avec les dents pour se faciliter la respiration. Je me trouve souvent dans le même cas : je voudrais m'ouvrir une veine qui me procurât la liberté éternelle.

The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood.

It has nothing to do with rank. Men like them never have power. They're riders. Much later the Americans turned the rider into a cowboy, but he's much older than America. He's the man in folktales who comes to take you away on his horse. Not to his palace; he doesn't have one. He lives in a tent in the forest. He's never learnt to count— If he sells clothes in a street market, I'd have thought he could count! Prices, yes, consequences, no.

Anyway, so he bounces in on his white horse like a big perfumed tea cozy, getting involved in affairs that are none of his business, and next thing you know she wakes up and—ooooh!—was she in a bad mood.

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect.

Een paard,' mompelt Sylvie. 'Een paardenmeisje. Ook dat nog. Ons blijft niets bespaard.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.