I was directed to keep close beside them, and accommodated for the purpose with a troop-horse. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Van and his rider flew easily along, bounding over the springy turf with long, elastic stride, horse and rider taking the rapid motion as an every-day matter, in a cool, imperturbable, this-is-the-way-we-always-do-it style, while my poor old troop-horse, in answer to pressing knee and pricking spur, strove with panting breath and jealously bursting heart to keep alongside. ❋ Various (N/A)
Losing the way, the troop-horse stumbled into a ravine and broke his neck. ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)
Frank was set on a troop-horse and placed immediately behind. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
The troop-horse, like all soldiers, has to learn his drill till he becomes as efficient as his rider. ❋ Mary Tourtel (N/A)
I cannot imagine John's conversation as anything but _ad hominem_, and his jokes as weighty as a kick from a troop-horse, and as pleasant. ❋ Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker (N/A)
Then he got his troop-horse to climb up and stand upon it, while this strong-armed constable took hold of the ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)
-- 'The animal was a Hungarian, a troop-horse in the 3rd ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)
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)
Van, though invoiced as a troop-horse sick, had attracted the attention of the colonel from the very start, and the colonel had speedily caused him to be transferred to his own stable, where, carefully tended, fed, groomed, and regularly exercised, he speedily gave evidence of the good there was in him. ❋ Various (N/A)
You ride the troop-horse, and Freake has provided a mare for Margaret. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
Beatson, that in the next village was a troop-horse, which had been captured in the fighting in the Swat Valley. ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)
What struck me more than anything was the admirable condition of the horses, and their serviceable appearance: I did not see a single troop-horse in the squadron which would not have sold in England for eighty guineas; the price paid for them here, that is, the government contract price, being from fifty to eighty dollars, or from ten to sixteen pounds. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Warrington rode into the rain at the same speed at which he had galloped to the police station, overhauled one of the mounted troopers whom he himself had sent in search of Ranjoor Singh, rated him soundly in Punjabi for loafing on the way, and galloped on with the troop-horse laboring in his wake. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)
For many good reasons, -- including dust and smoke, and that what attention he dared distract from his commanding officer was pretty well absorbed by keeping his hard-mouthed troop-horse in hand, under pain of execration by his neighbors in the mélée. ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)
"Fired at without the chance of running into the people who are firing!" said the troop-horse, thinking hard. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Nobody answered, and the troop-horse said, to change the conversation, ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"The man who walks at your head -- Or sits on your back -- Or holds the nose rope -- Or twists your tail," said Billy and the troop-horse and the camel and the bullocks one after the other. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Oh, my crupper and breastplate!" said the troop-horse under his breath. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Because we're told to," said the troop-horse, with a snort of contempt. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
