Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Friday, July 14, 2017
Daily Dose
From Adam Bede, by George Eliot
HORSEBACK
"That is the great advantage of dialogue on horseback; it can be merged any minute into a trot or a canter, and one might have escaped from Socrates himself in the saddle."
From Chapter 9, Hetty's World
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Daily Dose
From Horse Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
WELL
"'Well, I got there!' he announced fiercely, his blue eyes still flaring, and his sturdy long legs straddling apart.
'Where did you get to?' asked his mother.
'Where I wanted to go,' he flared back at her."
From The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
WELL
"'Well, I got there!' he announced fiercely, his blue eyes still flaring, and his sturdy long legs straddling apart.
'Where did you get to?' asked his mother.
'Where I wanted to go,' he flared back at her."
From The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
Friday, January 4, 2013
Daily Dose
From Horse Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
I DO NOT
"I do not believe that the most enthusiastic lover of that 'useful and noble animal,' the horse, will claim for him the charm of geniality, humor, or expansive confidence."
From Chu Chu by Bret Harte
I DO NOT
"I do not believe that the most enthusiastic lover of that 'useful and noble animal,' the horse, will claim for him the charm of geniality, humor, or expansive confidence."
From Chu Chu by Bret Harte
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