So we tear off full speed, and other things get in the way, and I have to pull up suddenly, and the horrid curb-bit cuts my mouth till I could rear with the pain. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Chauvenet and Durand conferred in low tones while Zmai drew out a tether strap and snapped it to the curb-bit of the captive's horse. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)
"Well, of course you're right, Brother Brigham, but that boy certainly needs a check-rein and a curb-bit right now," said Snow. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
That came from the curb-bit and bridle hanging on the wall, or perhaps from the plastron, foils, and gauntlets over the mantle. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The cruel curb-bit and heavy stock-saddle, with its high horn and cantle, prove that we have adopted Spanish-American horse-gear; and the broad hat, huge blunt spurs, and leather chaperajos of the rider, as well as the corral in which the stock are penned, all alike show the same ancestry. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Duruy, 'I says,' your lively horse's taught me a lesson, 'I says,' 'n' hereafter I don't lend no money on so much 's a egg without I see a good curb-bit bought 'n' put in its mouth first, 'I says;' n 'then I walked off,' n 'the end o' it all is 't if Cousin Marion's poor I certainly ain't very wild to have her find out 's I'm rich. ❋ Anne Warner (1891)
He struggled to free his wrist from the curb-bit chain of the horse, through which he had plunged it in his attempt to seize the bridle. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
It was rapidly growing dark, and one man lit a lanthorn, while the other clapped the bit between the teeth of a handsome black horse, turned the docile creature in its stall, and then slipped on a heavy military saddle with its high-peak holsters and curb-bit. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
Perhaps she ought to have a curb-bit for you, though, Miss Clara. ' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Roger went and got what he called a curb-bit, and almost in ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
The boys halloo in derision; and some ostler, helpful, but not complimentary, extricates the rider, and says, 'I see you have never been on' ossback before; you should not have pulled the curb-bit that way! ' ❋ Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862)
Folks talk o 'bridlin' the tongue; let 'em git a blind halter, say I, and a curb-bit, and a martingale! ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)
A single snaffle and a sharp curb-bit were placed in the horse's mouth; the former to ride and guide by. ❋ Unknown (1846)
There are many horses with good mouths, so far that they can be stopped easily with a plain snaffle, and yet require a curb-bit, to make them carry their heads in the right place, and this they often seem to do from the mere hint of the curb-chain dangling against their chins, without the rider being obliged to pull at the reins with any perceptible force. ❋ Unknown (1846)
The curb-bit should be placed so low as only just to clear the tushes in a horse's mouth, and one inch above the corner teeth in a mare's. ❋ Unknown (1846)
They are preventive of evil; a curb-bit to check us from sin. ❋ Unknown (1692)
a Mexican saddle with wooden stirrups and a tremendous curb-bit bridle. ❋ William Osborn Stoddard (1880)
You don't know a curb-bit from a snaffle now, but you will learn many things when you are broken -- a very great many things. " ❋ Clara Dillingham Pierson (N/A)
So he had poor Whitey's coat clipped, bought a curb-bit for him, and cut off his long tail. " ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
"They do not see how helpless a horse is when his head is drawn back with an over-check or hurt by a curb-bit and when he has no chance to drive away the flies that torment him. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
