"Not sparin 'horseflesh, Captain," he muttered in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
There's nothing too good in horseflesh you don't deserve, a woman who can ride like that. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIII] Reference
Now, some of the poorer folk cannot afford to pay for butchers 'meat, they are contented with horseflesh, which is not yet rationed, and are willing to sell their ration cards. From Wordnik.com. [My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71] Reference
It's mighty risky to trust horseflesh to a female. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
A Leviathan of horseflesh, the Behemoth of his race. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference
Catsmeat in London is dearer than live horseflesh in. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Like all Mexicans, they had little sympathy for horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
Time passed, and our antipathy to horseflesh abated not a jot. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
I do not refer to the bets upon horseflesh at Ascot, Epsom, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
"And out again as fast as horseflesh could carry us," muttered Hippy. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
Dawson and his experience with horseflesh was an exceptionally wide one. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
They must save what they had, both in the way of horseflesh and rations. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference
I am not wise in horseflesh, but at least I try to be merciful to my beasts. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
In all his years of dealing in horseflesh, this trade interested him deeply. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
Peggy's care and training, as fine a bunch of horseflesh as could be found in the land. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
The firing was redoubled, and then there came a break in the steady stream of horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
Everything was simplified; the Authorities had developed into wholehoggers in horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"There are few keener judges of horseflesh than Edouard, monsieur; and now let us to bed.". From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
Not the old doctor's from The Forge, for he never used up horseflesh in that reckless fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
On they urged their weary ponies, and the trail was as hard on horseflesh as it was on man and youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference
Well, all but one, perhaps -- who told an interviewer in London that "horseflesh made excellent soup!". From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"Has the de'il run away wi 'the excise-man, Mirren, that you're risking horseflesh among the peat-bogs?". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
And if I hadn't struck on a pretty fat thing in the way of a contract for forage and horseflesh for these. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
You won't find many rising young men economising in the matter of horseflesh as I do, or in anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Then "Fatalité" was called to the rescue as being the only one among them capable of managing horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
All these things, however, were now of secondary interest; it was the horseflesh peril that held the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
The Kangarooists really do not value life as we in the Old Country do -- they certainly do not value horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
All supplies of unripe fruit, horseflesh and artificial butter have to carry labels disclosing their real nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Terminal Market System New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets] Reference
In effect it caused a serious secession from the ranks of the party who had abstained altogether from horseflesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
The tribulations of Lucknow were comparatively short and sweet; for our troubles, horseflesh made us feel, were only about to begin. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
And certainly, it was worth looking upon, for no finer specimens of faultlessly groomed horseflesh could have been found in the land. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
Mr. George Wingfield is a great connoisseur of horseflesh and has spared neither pains nor expense in order to add the best thoroughbreds to his stock. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
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