In this case, too, for a few days the submaxillary space may so swell as to resemble the edematous, inflamed glands of strangles, equine variola, or laryngitis.
Again, as a mere matter of beauty, a sound, full, clear, intelligent eye is something which must always add a high value to our equine friends and servants.
He named her daughter's pony 'Chiquita,' after theequine heroine of his poem.
She bucked like a fiend of revolt one instant and cantered like an angel of grace the next; in fact she was more or less of an equinecounterpart of her rider.
His ancestor is the Barb or the Arab which the Spaniards brought with them to Mexico and the descendants of that finest of equine bloods made up the wild herds which soon roamed the mountain-desert to the north.
With equine instinct, she reared upon her hind legs, for some seconds balancing her body in an erect position.
No longer a horse, but an animal of equine shape, with the towering height and huge massive bulk of a mastodon!
You will find, I think, that high breeding and training are conditions of superiority in the human as well as in the equine and canine races; pedigree being, of course, the primary desideratum.
Bob Clarke and his steed were natives of Tasmania; the cool climate and insular position of which have been thought to be favourable to human and equine development.
Animals of the cervine and equine groups were, if possible, yet more numerous.
That equine would never lose his pride until he died.
These malformations are often cited as instances of reversion to the condition of some of the earlier forms of equine animals previously mentioned.
Marsh, "Notice of New Equine Mammals from the Tertiary Formation," Am.
Now he is going to a good home for the rest of his lazy life where all the work, privations, et cetera of circus life will be but a memory in his equine mind.
His investigations, while inconspicuous were thorough, and soon brought him in contact with the name of an equine stranger.
The maidens are the horses which have never won a race, and every jungle circuit is well supplied with these equine misfits.
By that one trial I had become free, as I may say, of the whole equine species.
The reader is already aware that I had long since conceived a passion for the equine race, a passion in which circumstances had of late not permitted me to indulge.
It was thus that the passion for the equine race was first awakened within me--a passion which, up to the present time, has been rather on the increase than diminishing.
An answering neigh, and a final equine duet still failed to draw his attention.
The horse hobbled about in that eager equine fashion when in the midst of a generous feed of sweet grass.
The true sportsman's interest in the improvement of the equine race was by no means sufficiently widely diffused to maintain the hippodromes of the Sociétés de Course.
The leader was a perfect beauty, black as ink, with glossy hide and long mane and tail--the equine king of the herd.
You must know that by this time the horse that had once pulled the stone-boat on Uncle Enoch's farm, and had later learned the hard lesson of obedience under Broncho Bill's lash had now become an equine personage.
In addition to the main stem of equine descent, briefly considered in the foregoing paragraphs, several side-branches were given off at successive levels of the stem.
In spite of the manifold differences in all parts of the skeleton between Eohippus and the recent horses, the former has stamped upon it an equine character which is unmistakable, though it can hardly be expressed in words.
But he knew that he could not lie there and watch the Pinto cut down Shiloh in one of those vicious, deadly, equine duels.
Those who prate about the marvellous intelligence of the equine race, are still under the magic of the story-books of their youth.
And accordingly I was introduced to a little fat, round, jolly-looking cob, about fourteen hands high, who appeared to me an equine counterpart of Coleman himself.
But equine education is usually conducted on a very different system to that of Monsieur Baucher, or either of the above-named gentlemen.
At a word from the inventor, spoken in his own language to his assistants below, this artificial charger committed every kind of wickedness that could be devised by a fiend in equine shape.
And yet, when punishment is absolutely necessary to extort obedience from the equine rebel, no man can administer it more severely, either from the saddle or the box.
Not one hunter in a hundred can jump in good form when going at speed; it is the perfection of equine prowess, resulting from great quickness and the confidence of much experience.
Juvenal, hurling his scathing satire against the patricians of his time, drew from the equine race a metaphor to illustrate the superiority of merit over birth.
