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Page 249
From Bentley's Miscellany . ANECDOTES OF HORSES . Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible . He paweth in the ...
From Bentley's Miscellany . ANECDOTES OF HORSES . Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible . He paweth in the ...
Page 250
... horses of great speed ,. The Anglo - Saxons are supposed to have first used the horse in ploughing about the latter part of the tenth century ; on the border of the Bayeux tapestry , representing the landing of William the Conqueror and ...
... horses of great speed ,. The Anglo - Saxons are supposed to have first used the horse in ploughing about the latter part of the tenth century ; on the border of the Bayeux tapestry , representing the landing of William the Conqueror and ...
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... horse being alarmed at the great strain , if not well broken , will not readIily turn like the pivot of a wheel . In consequence many men have been killed ; for if a lasso once takes a twist round a man's body , it will instantly , from ...
... horse being alarmed at the great strain , if not well broken , will not readIily turn like the pivot of a wheel . In consequence many men have been killed ; for if a lasso once takes a twist round a man's body , it will instantly , from ...
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