The manes of the dead emperors haunt the ruins of Ancient Rome. From LearnThat.org.
"The gintleman manes he objects to the persadin's.". From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia coeli porta manes. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference
Strokes the rein'd dragons 'manes, and shakes the thongs. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Teeth are bared and spotted with the brown paint of their manes. From Wordnik.com. [Untitled] Reference
It was drawn by cream-colored horses with white manes and tails. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington] Reference
Mufasa and the adult Simba look too much like wrestlers with manes. From Wordnik.com. [King Of The Urban Jungle] Reference
Monte-Leone, by the revered manes of your father; and you, Marquis de. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
How she rode the horses to the spring, using their manes for a bridle!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
It manes the libereetion of Oireland, and perpitual inmity to England. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
The horses fairly flew, the wind of their speed tossing their manes back. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
They ride horses at night, and tangle their manes into inextricable knots. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Nearer and nearer the great herd came, like a sea of tossing manes and horns. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
Q, carpal and meta-carpal bones, and phalanges, of digits, of manes or fore-foot. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Everie manes werkis ar eyther good or evill: for all fructis ar either good or evill. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
"That manes you won't pay us, your reverence?" said the foreman, in a free translation. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Gradually, however, most of the afflicted stock picked up, got new hoofs, new manes and tails. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Models with stringy, matted manes were all over the runways during the recent spring shows in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Scary Hair] Reference
They would leap up at my approach, stare stupidly at me through their tangled manes, and then gallop heavily away. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The eager charioteers stand round and pat their chests with clapping hollowed hands, and comb their tressed manes. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Clouds gathered above, and on the incoming 'bore' Maxwell saw with dismay the 'white horses of Solway' shaking their manes. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
For there are actually ghosts of events, manes of past circumstances, shadows on the protoplasmic mirror, which can be evoked. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
There were four of them; little, shaggy, black ponies, with bunchy manes and fetlocks, not much larger than Newfoundland dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
But 'the white horses' were now upon them, their streaming manes enveloping the gunwale, and Maxwell gave himself up for lost. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Joey uprooted a handful of the shortest of the weeds, some not yet in full bloom, and rubbed their fiery manes across his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [s Vacation] Reference
The giraffes have a habit, in captivity at least, of plucking the hairs out of each other's manes and tails, and swallowing them. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The owner with great difficulty managed to rescue them, when it was found they had actually chawed each other's tails and manes off. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Their manes and tails hung in closely curled, glossy ringlets and their heavy harness was thickly studded with polished gold buttons. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Horse and foot followed as they could, some swimming, others with dying grasp clinging to the manes and tails of the struggling animals. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
And yet they look very fine, these same sensible-looking beasts, with their great eyes, and flowing manes and tails, and proud carriage. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
They had hardly passed the prison before three horses, sleekly curried, and with ribbons tied to their manes and tails, were led past them. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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