The man came riding, on a beautiful, slow-pacing dapple-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
His raw-boned dapple-grey favourite was tethered at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
They brought him his boots, and his dapple-grey steed along with them. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
I claim of you the twelve minae, which you borrowed from me to buy the dapple-grey horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
"Dandy," a sturdy dapple-grey Canadian roadster, that in appearance was quite the reverse of what his name would imply. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
On Sunday Erin got me riding Seth, the huge dapple-grey Warmblood gelding, in a firm but kind contact with lots of leg. From Wordnik.com. [Yatima » 2009 » August] Reference
The amazon Amalia rides in fact a magnificent dapple-grey horse, with glossy hair, which flatters like a parade horse. From Wordnik.com. [Three Guineas] Reference
A white horse, or a pale dapple-grey or very light roan, for his hide brought with it into the clearing its own lambent gleam. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
A scrawny dapple-grey mare wearing a battered saddle stood there, reins trailing, lathered with sweat and blowing clouds of vapor. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Everything has its value: the same Edward had spent fifty pounds over a horse called Bayard, and seventy for another called Labryt, which was dapple-grey. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
He did, however, spare the few minutes necessary to amble through the stables, and was not surprised to note that neither the dapple-grey nor its companion, the broad-backed brown cob, was in its stall. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
On the left wing of the horse Virgil appeared, in shining armour, completely fitted to his body; he was mounted on a dapple-grey steed, the slowness of whose pace was an effect of the highest mettle and vigour. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
The dapple-grey palfrey tethered to a tree to one side jerked against her rope when she smelled Blind Seer, but her relief at human company — even that of so dubious a human as Firekeeper — outweighed her fear. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
The sight of a dapple-grey rocking-horse with silken mane and flowing tail was too much, and the next moment you were in the room with your arms around his arched neck, while peals of unrestrained joy brought the whole family to the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Ago] Reference
I would I could tell you the moving story of our cart and cart-horses; the latter are dapple-grey, about sixteen hands, and of enormous substance; the former was a kind of red and green shandry-dan with a driving bench; plainly unfit to carry lumber or to face our road. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
The red and the roan together, and the dapple-grey and the black. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Her palfrey was dapple-grey and she herself shone as the summer sun. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children] Reference
And they ride on the roan and the grey, and the dapple-grey and the red. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
Tell me, seest thou not that knight which comes riding towards us on a dapple-grey horse, with a helmet of gold on his head?. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Book. VII. Of the High Adventure and Rich Winning of the Helmet of Mambrino, with Other Successes Which Befel the Invincible Knight] Reference
Her hair, like the tail of a dapple-grey horse, covers her heels; her face looks like a plaited collar, with the folds stiffened by the starch of years. From Wordnik.com. [Pentamerone. English] Reference
When he got up there and found them, each mare had her foal, and by the side of one of them was a big dapple-grey foal as well. which was so sleek that it shone again. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fairy Book] Reference
He had an old acquaintance in the Park, a dapple-grey, who, probably from some early disappointment was a confirmed cynic, and whose society he thought would be congenial just then. From Wordnik.com. [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference
She then went to the mousetrap, where she found six live mice, and bidding Cinderella let them out one by one, she changed each mouse into a fine dapple-grey horse by a stroke of her wand. From Wordnik.com. [Bo-Peep Story Books] Reference
The tassel of the hearth-rug has flung down the bass-drum, and he and his dapple-grey horse lie overtripped, slipped out of line, with the little lead drumsticks glistening to the fire's shine. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference
None of us dared move our heads, but every eye in the regiment whisked round, and there we saw an officer with the cockade of a general's aide-de-camp thundering down the road as hard as a great dapple-grey horse could carry him. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales] Reference
He bought likewise four dapple-grey horses, which would be enough, as nobody had more than two horses to a carriage in town, and for which he paid 312 crowns -- a very low price, he thought, at a season when every one was purchasing. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
His face was flushed, but his speech calm, as he spake so that the other knights might hear him: Now will we straight to the castle, lady, and we will ask thee which of us three thou wilt honour by riding his horse there; shall it be Baudoin's bright bay, or Hugh's dapple-grey, or my red roan?. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Then proud Grey Glory, the dapple-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Right Royal] Reference
At the dapple-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
He's dapple-grey, "Hansen said. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
"O swiftly can speed my dapple-grey steed. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
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