In a damp, dark back-room, on a wretched bedstead covered with a horsecloth, with a rough felt cloak for a pillow, lay Tchertop-hanov.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference

A board was found, fixed on two saddles and covered with a horsecloth, a small samovar was produced and a cellaret and half a bottle of rum, and having asked Mary Hendrikhovna to preside, they all crowded round her.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

The strongest of the lads was selected for the horse; he stooped, and made as long a back as he could, supporting himself by the stick carrying the head; then he was covered with a horsecloth, and one of his companions mounted his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference

Huntingdon on the moral courage exhibited by Colonel Gardiner, he was rather glad of an opportunity that presented itself of exhibiting his brother in an unamiable light, and "trotting him out with his shabby old horsecloth on," as he expressed it, for the amusement of himself and friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market – place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly – driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

In the first cabin he entered he found six famished, ghastly skeletons, to all appearance dead, huddled in a corner on a little filthy straw, their sole covering being what seemed a piece of ragged horsecloth; their miserable shriveled limbs were hanging about as if they did not belong to their bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

He fell from exhaustion, and we made a litter with two poles and a horsecloth to carry him home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon]

"He fell from exhaustion, and we made a litter with two poles and a horsecloth to carry him home.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon] Reference

I was tempted at last to take the horsecloth off my shoulders, and to wrap my feet up in it, but all was of no use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory] Reference

I will write something on a card, which you will fasten to one of the pommels, throwing over all this horsecloth. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference

A board was found, fixed on two saddles and covered with a horsecloth, a small samovar was produced and a cellaret and half a bottle of rum, and having asked Mary.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

The stranger waited, though rather impatiently, till Bennet reappeared, leading a rough Dunsmoor pony, with a horsecloth tied round it, on which he mounted without saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference

After drowning poor Mumu, he had run back to his garret, hurriedly packed a few things together in an old horsecloth, tied it up in a bundle, tossed it on his shoulder, and so was ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torrents of Spring] Reference

Going towards the stable, he met the white-legged chestnut, Mahotin's Gladiator, being led to the race-course in a blue forage horsecloth, with what looked like huge ears edged with blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Going towards the stable, he met the white-legged chestnut, Mahotin’s Gladiator, being led to the racecourse in a blue forage horsecloth, with what looked like huge ears edged with blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XXIV. Part II] Reference

The best to which I could gain admission was a long barn-like edifice, with bunks or berths like those on board a ship, arranged along on either side with straw, hay, or leaves as a mattress, and a horsecloth as a coverlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia] Reference

The horsecloth should now be put on by taking the cloth in both hands, with the outside next you, and, with your right hand to the off side, throw it over his back, placing it no farther back than will leave it straight and level, which will be about a foot from the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street-corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a flydriver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [XIII. The Sequel of My Resolution] Reference

The sight of this strange cavalier in his splendid armour, covered with foam and dust, borne to the earth like a log by the weight of his armour, appalled the simple people, who dragged him inside the mill and covered him where he lay with some rough horsecloth, not knowing what to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference

The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield]

A few things together in an old horsecloth, tied it up in a bundle, tossed it on his shoulder, and so was ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian] Reference

He would go to the market place in a remote Spanish village and display his Testaments on the outspread horsecloth, crying: "Peasants, peasants, I bring you the.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference

Going towards the stable, he met the white-legged chestnut, Mahotin’s Gladiator, being led to the race-course in a blue forage horsecloth, with what looked like huge ears edged with blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

He then discoursed to some of his own companions regarding the merits of the horses; and the parson, a learned man, explained to the villagers, that one of the travellers must be a count, or at least had a count's horsecloth; pronounced that the stirrups were of real silver, and checked the impetuosity of his son, William Nassau Dobbs, who was for mounting the animals, and who expressed a longing to fire off one of the pistols in the holsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a Story] Reference

Pall used as horsecloth, 295.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parish Clerk] Reference

He then discoursed to some of his own companions regarding the merits of the horses; and the parson, a learned man, explained to the villagers, that one of the travellers must be a count, or at least had a count’s horsecloth; pronounced that the stirrups were of real silver, and checked the impetuosity of his son, William Nassau Dobbs, who was for mounting the animals, and who expressed a longing to fire off one of the pistols in the holsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a story] Reference