The word "Houyhnhnms" is the name given by Dean Swift to an imaginary race of horses endowed with reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9] Reference

Teh Houyhnhnms probly agrees cept tehy is teh vegetablearians.    From Wordnik.com.  [But what does it do? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

His difficulty probably occurred in the "Voyage to the Houyhnhnms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

The Houyhnhnms, we are told, were unanimous on almost all subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

Houyhnhnms at their best could not be either perfect horses or perfect men.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

The Houyhnhnms, Swift’s ideal beings, are backward even in a mechanical sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

Not with the Houyhnhnms, because at this time Gulliver has not seen a Houyhnhnm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

The Houyhnhnms are dreary beaststhis is so generally admitted that the point is not worth labouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

(YAH-hoohz) The crude, dirty “brutes” of the land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoos] Reference

The monstrosity of both the bestial Yahoos and the haughty Houyhnhnms unhinges Gulliver to the point of insanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Human Nature~ A Symposium on the Promises and Challenges of the Revolutions in Genomics and Computer Science (Conference)~ Session Six] Reference

By contrast, the wise and gentle Houyhnhnms, their masters, are rational horses and represent humanity at its best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoos] Reference

There is a subtler indication of Swift’s own attitude in the manner in which Gulliver leaves the land of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

The totalitarian Society of the Houyhnhnms, where there can be no freedom and no development, follows naturally from this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

Alas, not even the genius of Swift was equal to producing a specimen by which we could judge the poetry of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

Houyhnhnms too old to walk are described as being carried on “sledges” or in “a kind of vehicle, drawn like a sledge”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

The satire gathered strength and bitterness in its progress, until the limits of horror were reached in the voyage to the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

But it is still that first impression that persists, even among those who have read to the bitter end in the country of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sock Puppet, son of Sock Puppet] Reference

The “Reason” which he so admires in the Houyhnhnms does not primarily mean the power of drawing logical inferences from observed facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels] Reference

No one went near Books III and IV of Swift's epic, wherein Dr. Lemuel Gulliver visits the flying island of Laputa and the equine utopia of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted's Excellent Adventure] Reference

Then spread those morals which the Houyhnhnms taught.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference

Houyhnhnms a noble and not a disgusting piece of literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Letters] Reference

Houyhnhnms are your masters; I heartily wish our Yahoos would be so tractable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

The Houyhnhnms have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

For this refuge he was making, and from this our mutinous Houyhnhnms meant to keep us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference

Houyhnhnms, and these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if these were brutes, and those the rational creatures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

Turpin, at least, understood the appeal in that sense; he was skilled in the language of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

NICHOLAS: I find in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" that he speaks of a "voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9] Reference

'I think you must be,' said I. 'The only horses I ever heard of as possessing the gift of speech were the Houyhnhnms.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talking Horse And Other Tales] Reference

Gulliver, during his travels did not identify this country as 'Land of the Houyhnhnms' where Swiftian 'Yahoos' also roam!.    From Wordnik.com.  [arabnews - frontpage] Reference

His third voyage takes him to Laputa, where he sees the philosophers; and on the fourth he visits the land of the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference

He asked me who made the ship, and how it was possible that the Houyhnhnms of my country would leave it to the management of brutes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

Children read the voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, to the flying island of Laputa and the country of the Houyhnhnms, as they read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues, without any mixture of vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference

That the Houyhnhnms to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulliver's Travels] Reference