Not far from Hickling, and connected with it by Heigham Sounds and a narrow dyke, is Horsey Mere, so near the sea that the sea-water at times wells into it in the shape of salt springs.
Upon this particular occasion Mr. Sheldon had pledged himself to dine with a horsey publican lately retired from business, and big with all the pride and glory of a "place" at Hornsey.
He was a young man of horsey propensities, gifted with a sublime contempt for any kind of business requiring application or industry, and with a supreme belief in his own merits.
A week later this horsey husband of hers brought her on to Brighton for the races there, and hither John Lefolle flew.
Admiral Horsey sent an officer on board the Huascar to demand her surrender.
As this was an act of piracy on the high sea, Admiral de Horsey determined to engage her whenever he met her.
But thehorsey person turns round and says, "If you want a head put on you, just keep on talking; so that folks can't hear the brothers turn a somersault.
But the horsey person does not see my joke,--thus proving that he shares a dulness of perception that I have too often noticed, even among my friends.
But I am overheard by a horsey person in the neighborhood, who replies, "That horse hain't got a symptom of foundering.
Thorny stood up, won by his sister's sweet earnestness, but very doubtful of his own success with the "horsey fellow.
The doggy buttons and the horsey whip were treasures, indeed, for Miss Celia had not given them when they first planned to do so, because Sancho's return seemed to be joy and reward enough for that occasion.
He looked to me to have a horsey look, as though were a groom or coachman.
As I rushed at the gangway, with some wild notion of stopping the pedlar, the horsey man caught me by the collar.
The horsey man, he said, was evidently a trusted secret agent, who must have made friends with the carpenter on some earlier visit of the schooner.
I believed that the sharp-faced horsey man had somehow driven her to it against her will.
Both had bolted off in pursuit of the horseyman at the moment of alarm, leaving their chests behind them.
When we got back aboard the schooner, we found, as we had expected, that the men in league with the horsey man had deserted.
I dare say, too, that the horsey man, who was evidently well known to them both, had given them orders to desert in the confusion, so that he might suck their brains at leisure elsewhere.
While he was speaking, the mate came down to tell us how sorry he was that it was through him that the horseyman was shown over the ship.
When he entered into that conspiracy, he had counted on the horsey man diverting suspicion from him.
Probably his "good friends" at court were Nikita Romanof, grandfather of the first elected Tsar, and Boris Godunov with whom Horsey was always on excellent terms.
A great crowd of needy people assembled, and seven hundred were promptly knocked on the head by the opritchniks and their bodies thrown into the lake; a death so merciful, Horsey terms it "a deed of charity.
Horsey was the man chosen by Ivan to take a private message to Queen Elizabeth in answer to the important communication she had sent him by Anthony Jenkinson.
Jerom Horsey thus describes Ivan's invasion of Novgorod:-- "O the lamentable outcries and cruel slaughters!
Horsey returned the ducats, as he says, "not without afterwards repenting of this," but kept the bowl to remind him of their good will.
Horsey gave the messenger the small vial of sallet oil the Queen (Elizabeth) had given him as a specific against all poisons and ills.
She was among those whom Horsey had helped to settle in the Sloboda, and he gave so good an account of her, that the grateful jailer liberated him and helped him forward on his long journey.
Horsey had engaged upon a daring undertaking, and had an adventurous journey.
Horsey was instrumental in getting the lives of many spared, and they were settled in a suburb of Moscow where they lived at peace with the citizens but were still subject to attacks from the oepritchniks.
Observing which, the horsey person sighed plaintively and shook his head, alternately chewing upon and looking at his straw the while Barnabas read the following: Oh, Barnabas dear, when shall I see you again?
The horsey person coughed, took out his straw, looked at it, shook his head at it, and put it back again.
On the 8th a fine male specimen was shot on Yarmouth Denes, near the old battery; and on the 9th and 10th a flock of about forty of the birds appeared upon Horsey beach.
At Cromer a portion of the jetty was washed away, and at Horsey serious breaches were made in the sea wall and thousands of acres of salt marshes submerged.
His clothes, no doubt, were decent, but they were made by some tailor who must surely work for horsey men and no others.
But the horsey man is generally on the alert to take care that no secret of his trade escapes from him unawares.
The object of the De Horsey rig was to give a sail equipment with as little gear as possible.
The Service rig has one mast, with mainsail and staysail, called the De Horsey rig.
On they went, the horsey man leading on his thoroughbred screw, the huntsman second, and Frank third.
The horseyman with the well-bred screw was first over the brook.
At that moment Lucinda was very full of wrath against the horsey man with the screw who had been in her way.
The pace had already been too good for the other horsey man.
Carstairs was the horsey man,--and one with whom Morgan very often quarrelled.
What the brute lacked in jumping he could make up in pace, and the horsey man was along the wall and over a broken bank at the head of it, with the loss of not more than a minute.
No more he don't," said the horsey man, turning aside to one of his friends.
The horseyman had all but regained his place, and was immediately behind Lucinda, within hearing--as Lucinda knew.
Moreover, like other persons of equine tastes, he has the pleasant fancy of affecting a tight and horsey "cut" in clothes never intended for the saddle.
Miss Maddison," says Lord Saint Sinnes, rising and jerking his knees back after the manner of horsey persons, "you can go back into that room and take your Bible oath that I never asked you to marry me.
When you don't want to walk with it, it comes into play for the children to ride horsey on; or you kin take it off and stir the fire with it in a way that would depress the spirits of a man with a real leg.
The tough-looking man had a horsey look and a horsey smell about him, and as soon as I saw him I knew that he followed 'em in some kind of a hanger-on capacity.
I like when I drive To be brought home alive-- So a fine wooden horsey for me!
After this settlement, some of the friends of the late Mr. Horsey separated from the Church and congregation, and commenced the Unitarian interest in the town.
Mr. Horseypreached in the evening, from Acts xiii.
Illustration: "Endeavours to assume a knowing and horsey expression.
The Mild Man accepts the reins, and endeavours to assume a knowing and horsey expression.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horsey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
