Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horses. Show all posts

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

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

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