She wrote of women wearing “distressed leather or roughed-up shearling … jodhpurs and a blanket cape closed with a snaffle-bit buckle.” ❋ William Safire (2004)
The snaffle-bit is universally used, even by the officers, although the average Russian troop-horse is noted for his hard mouth. ❋ Theo. F. Rodenbough (N/A)
Ruhmkorff coil, whose armature was connected with a snaffle-bit placed in the horse's mouth. ❋ Various (N/A)
Farrel saddled him and carefully fitted the bridle with the snaffle-bit. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Money makes the mare go, and it makes her cut up, too, unless she's used to it and you drive her with a snaffle-bit. ❋ George Horace Lorimer (1902)
Even when a jackal, or it might have been a honey-badger, slipped across the road in front, a drifting shadow, the Turcoman only rattled the snaffle-bit in his teeth, cocked his ears, and then blew a breath of disdain from his big nostrils. ❋ William Alexander Fraser (1896)
He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope. ❋ John McElroy (1887)
"I would ride her with the lightest snaffle-bit that ever was made," protested Lord Mallow. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Just as we came out of the hut in a great bustle, our evil destiny induced F---'s horse to rub its nose against the top wire of the fence; and in this process it caught the bar of its snaffle-bit, and immediately pulled back: this made all the wires jingle. ❋ Unknown (1871)
"No," was the reply, almost in a whisper, and with the darkness coming on fast now Chris turned away his head and leaned to the farther side of his pony, to catch hold of the long hide-rope attached to the mule's snaffle-bit. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
There was a sternness about the lower part of his face, -- the old Heavystone look, -- a sternness heightened, perhaps, by the snaffle-bit which, in one of his strange freaks, he wore in his mouth to curb his occasional ferocity. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
There was a sternness about the lower part of his face, -- the old Heavystone look, -- a sternness, heightened, perhaps, by the snaffle-bit which, in one of his strange freaks, he wore in his mouth to curb his occasional ferocity. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Their bridle has but a simple snaffle-bit, and no martingale. ❋ Randolph Barnes Marcy (1849)
The snaffle-bit is attached to the halter head-stall by a chain and T; the curb has a separate head-stall, which on a march is occasionally taken off and hung on the carbine stock. ❋ Randolph Barnes Marcy (1849)
The Pelham-bit (see cut), which is a sort of snaffle-bit with cheeks and ❋ Unknown (1846)
When he is subjected to the cord, take a snaffle-bit with a piece of string to each eye (what is called a = T = is best), tie it to the off side, D, hold the nose-band with the right hand, take the snaffle with the left, induce him to open his mouth by passing the thumb between his lips on to the ❋ George Greenwood (1837)
This is useful information for Washington pundits: when I see a lobbyist on K Street’s “Gucci Gulch,” I’ll look down at his shoes and say, “Nice snaffle-bit buckle.” ❋ William Safire (2004)
Drunk #1: That chick has a [hot body]. Too bad about the face though.
Drunk #2: I'm just worried about the potential [scraping] issues. She make think it's a piece of [celery].
Drunk #1: Right on bra, let's leave this snaffle bits be. ❋ The Taste Of Lemonade (2009)
