Perhaps a jennet was a horse kept solely for pleasure, whose mane was suffered to grow to a considerable length, and was then ornamented with platting, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
And yet she had left her jennet behind and gone afoot. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
King James is represented on the identical roan jennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
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A pretty little lady's jennet out of Spanish stock, I should say by the glimpse I got of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
And she signed a little cross on the air between them before she wheeled her jennet into the lefthand track. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
She rode upon a richly caparisoned jennet, her escort consisting of two hundred mounted nobles, men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Ober-Amtmann's daughter, ride past upon her ambling jennet, or mount the church-steps, her missal in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
One matchless Spanish jennet I despatched to my promised bride; its caparisons flamed with jewels and cloth of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
A pretty little white jennet, such as a lady would ride, and such elabourate and decorative accoutrements as would be provided for a lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
She was mounted on a white jennet caparisoned with gold, and she wore a riding habit of red silk and ermine, and a hat trimmed with feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Their only attendant was a page, who, riding a Spanish jennet, which seemed to bear a heavy cloak-bag, followed them at a respectful distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
The foremost of these was a young female, most elegantly attired, and mounted upon a Spanish jennet, which she reined with singular grace and dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
But the vicar was too honest to drive so good a bargain, and the matter ended, in Amyas buying her a jennet, which she learned in a fortnight to ride like. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Of such outlandish horses as are daily brought over unto us I speak not, as the jennet of Spain, the courser of Naples, the hobby of Ireland, the Flemish roile and the. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
The jennet jogged slowly on as Patrick soliloquised. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911] Reference
He is the most beautiful creature, a Spanish jennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Merryweathers] Reference
A jennet with silver trappings came running to meet him. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Pomegranates] Reference
On bounded the Spanish jennet, on rattled the boy rider. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
I offered her my chestnut courser, but she preferred a jennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
I had not an English horse there, so I bought that Andalusian jennet. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Pouchskin, riding his great French jennet, had started in the advance. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
In this picture King James is represented on the identical roan jennet. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
She was to ride a jennet, a small Spanish horse known in the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
He clapped spurs to the jennet he was riding, and took flight headlong. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
Before them rode a boy on a jennet, and by him a clerk, as he seemed, upon a mule. From Wordnik.com. [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference
The beggar hath the prior's own mule and his son a jennet, and here we go to Santa Fe!. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
"Right noble lady," said he, "behold here a goodly, fair jennet to thy gracious acceptance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
Instead of falling, the cursed jennet was irritated, and carried him on more furiously than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Iron Mask] Reference
Genebaud sallying forth along the bank of a river on two beautiful horses of the best jennet-race. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
Next came Charles, mounted on a bay jennet, armed at all points, and holding in his hand the scepter. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
It is a Spanish jennet of the true Moorish blood, which, hundreds of years ago, that people brought with them from the. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Margaret] Reference
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