I sniffed a few unknown-to-me scents, and than walked until I reached Central Park and stopped to eat an apple and an orange, while the scent of carriage-horse manure permeated the air to no end; it was already dusk, and the ducks were floating in the pond in search for left over crumbs of salty pretzels. ❋ Ayala Sender (2006)
In 1903 #48, Clemens reunited with a hero of his younger days: John T. Lewis, who in 1877 had seized the bit of a runaway carriage-horse at Quarry Hill and saved the lives of three people. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
She was like a spirited carriage-horse that has long been idle, and suddenly finds itself without a bridle. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In a little while, he was back, leading a carriage-horse, one hand on the bridle, all self-importance. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
So I'd been misled, conned, deceived by the city, and was later to be fleeced again in the bargain (one of those carriage-horse drivers took me and a college date on a ride wrapped in a smelly flea-bitten blanket, during which he seemed to stop every few clip-clops to clip me for another $20, until I had nothing left and we had to escape the park on foot). ❋ Unknown (2002)
It was now the middle of June, and the weather fine; and Mr.. Elton was growing impatient to name the day, and settle with Mr. Weston as to pigeon-pies and cold lamb, when a lame carriage-horse threw every thing into sad uncertainty. ❋ Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 (2001)
When Zibeline's vehicle drove up to the entrance in its turn, the General conducted his charge to the door of a marvellously equipped brougham, to which was harnessed a carriage-horse of powerful frame, well suited to the kind of vehicle he drew. ❋ Various (N/A)
A handsome grey carriage-horse is being shod, one hoof doubled up between the farrier's legs, as that worthy, with quick taps, drives in a long nail, and makes the shoe fast. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was now the middle of June and the weather fine, and Mrs Elton was growing impatient to name the day, and settle with Mr Weston as to pigeon-pies and cold lamb, when a lame carriage-horse threw everything into {114} sad uncertainty. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
In the curve of the cove, dancing about with high, measured steps, like that of a trained carriage-horse, was the boy, his hands clutching a stout stick with which he was beating the air around him as though fighting some imaginary foe, in desperation for his life. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
A carriage-horse champed its bit, and the still watchers turned at once to that intrusive sound. ❋ Unknown (1915)
And one odd result of the scarcity of what the English are pleased to call "petrol," by which they mean gasoline, is the reappearance of that respectable, but almost obsolete animal, the family carriage-horse; of that equally obsolete vehicle, the victoria. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
To hire a carriage-horse or a riding-horse is easy enough, but a cart-horse as strong as a steam-engine is more difficult to find. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Equal loads given to a dray-horse and a carriage-horse impose quite unequal burdens. ❋ 1864-1923 (1902)
Jingled like a carriage-horse when he went abroad. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Three months back, the very day Mr. March came, he got playing with the carriage-horse, and it kicked him and broke his arm. ❋ Unknown (1897)
So I got upon the carriage-horse next; rode on to the Bootle ❋ Unknown (1893)
Well! with the long-legged boy on his small pony by my side, and the groom on his carriage-horse behind, I moved off, thinking in my own mind, decidedly I will not go far, - neither "far nor fast." ❋ Unknown (1893)
The moment after, I looked round for my incongruous stranger, and saw him engaged in a well-meant attempt to press a currant bun upon a carriage-horse tethered to one of the trees -- a feat of abstraction which, at such a time, was only surpassed by that of ❋ F. Anstey (1895)
