He asked if I should like to ride a-cockhorse there with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume] Reference

'But "the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse": what does that mean?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

I take Heaven to witness, after all my jesting, my heart is innocent, and the sports of my pen just like those of my infancy when I rode cockhorse on a stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Edmond Scherer] Reference

"And so being shut out from Lathom, thou be'st a cockhorse for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Francis Baily, Esq. "P.S. Mr. Flamsteed has come in, and says he left S.r Isaac riding cockhorse upon the nebula, and poring over it as if it were a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference

A cockhorse to Banbury cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero and Leander and Other Poems] Reference

Let Stanley ride cockhorse behind thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

We set them a cockhorse, and made them play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

Ride a cockhorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference