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Example sentences for "hoss"

Lexicographically close words:
hospitaller; hospitals; hospitium; hospodar; hospodars; hossback; hosses; host; hostage; hostages
  1. Mussen tiah de hoss clean out,” said the nig.

  2. Dat are stallion am jest a little bit too good a hoss for to be chasin’ me,” said the nig.

  3. You don't want to be always ridin' that high hoss of yours.

  4. This red hoss hasn't got the Circle brand, though he belongs to the outfit, so they won't ask no fool questions about him.

  5. But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay As fresh as on Lisbon-earthquake day!

  6. It was on the terrible Earthquake day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.

  7. Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.

  8. There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local, as one may say.

  9. He's allays put up his hoss here, sir, iver since before I hed the Donnithorne Arms.

  10. He comes here to preach of a Sunday afternoon, sir, an' puts up his hoss here.

  11. He lowered his voice and his eyes bulged with the terror of his tidings: "Feed him the leather; ride to beat hell; never stop while your hoss can raise a trot; and then slide off your hoss and get another.

  12. It ain't hoss nature to keep from goin' mad at the sight of a fire!

  13. This here," said Mac Strann, "is where that hoss must be.

  14. They wouldn't run a hoss like that with others.

  15. That hoss has had a long ride; and Barry has put him in one of them barns, they ain't no doubt.

  16. Maybe you figure to wait till Mac Strann gets to town before you leave; maybe you think your hoss can outrun anything on four feet.

  17. Would you know that black hoss agin if you seen him?

  18. But if Barry ever gets away agin on that hoss I ain't never goin' to catch him.

  19. Are you a human bein' and yet you think more of your hoss and your damned wolf-dog than you do of the life of a man?

  20. You hop on your hoss and ride out with me.

  21. Nothing but the coin I give you to hire someone at every stop to have that hoss you've left ready for me.

  22. Something that Whistling Dan had said long before came to her: "Even a hoss and a dog, Kate, can get terrible lonesome.

  23. The man ain't possible, the hoss ain't possible, the dog is a wolf.

  24. But there's a good hoss blanket in the barn.

  25. I ain't over pertikler in a hoss trade, like everybody else.

  26. This here hoss and trap belongs to my mother.

  27. I brought my own hoss into this country and when it gave out I didn't have time to barter an' trade for another one; so I just caught one, and when it grew weary, I turned it adrift.

  28. Tillte had got a fresh hoss at Meltner's and had started right back with the doctor; so they arrived a little after seven next mornin'.

  29. I like to see a hoss full o' fire, and I like to see a woman full of enticement; but I like to see both the fire an' the enticement kept under good control, and not made to show out unnecessary.

  30. One morning I was down at the Union Depot when a farmer drove up a big Norman hoss hitched to a surrey.

  31. The next fellow who rides that hoss will find it a little less trouble than if I hadn't used it, and there's no harm done at all.

  32. Olaf sat on his hoss and looked at us a moment, at Kit with her bruised face, holdin' the boy in her arms, at the prisoners and us; and then he asked the Friar what it all meant.

  33. The Friar slid his hoss down the bank o' the ravine, and disappeared just a few moments before we saw the woman comin' along the path from the clump of trees.

  34. The old gray was as forgivin' a hoss as I ever see; but he had his limits as well as the rest of us.

  35. I rode back an' left my hoss with theirs, an' then joined 'em.

  36. When a young hoss is mean, why, ya can reason it out of him; but when an old hoss turns bad, you might just as well put the outlaw label on him an' turn him adrift.

  37. When he lef' massa call me to bring his hoss to 'im.

  38. I wouldn't giv a shilling a pound for religion that yu kant take ennywhere out into the world with yu, even tew a hoss race, if yu hav a mind tew, without losing it.

  39. Their laws aint like our laws, made with a hole in them, so that a man kan steal a hoss and ride thru them on a walk.

  40. Oats are a phuny grain, 8 quarts of them will make even a stage hoss laff, and when a stage hoss laffs, you may know he is tickled somewhare.

  41. The gra mare's ears hang down the side ov her hed, like two wet rags, and the hoss rests his tale on the ground.

  42. Human knowledge iz not very komprehensiv after all, for i hav seen men who could kalkulate an eklips to a dot, who couldn't harness a hoss tew save their lives.

  43. This iz the natur ov oats as a beverage, they amuze the stummuck ov the hoss with their sharp ends, and then the hoss laffs.

  44. Before yu buy the hoss yu speak ov, look him over cluss, but don't examin him much afterward, for fear yu may cum across sumthing that yu are looking after.

  45. Genius iz always in advance ov the times, and makes sum magnificent hits, but the world owes most ov its tributes to good hoss sense.

  46. There is nothing that haz bin diskovered yet, that iz so skarse as good Hoss sense, about 28 hoss power.

  47. If a lekturer trys tew be phunny, he iz like a hoss trying to trot backwards, pretty apt tew trod on himself.

  48. It iz like turning an old hoss out tew grass, and gitting the oats all out ov him.

  49. My hoss stepped in a hole, and I wasn't looking for it.

  50. I knew that hoss down on the Musselshell; he's got a record that'd reach from here to Dry Lake and back.

  51. That festive bunch up in the reserve seats'll think it's awful, and that the HS sorrel is a lady's hoss alongside him, but a real rider can wear him out.

  52. He ain't a hoss I'd like to see Happy Jack go up against.

  53. About the only animal he ever failed to connect with for keeps, is that same cow-backed hoss yuh see over there.

  54. All right--but wait till I tame this hoss proper!

  55. What'll yuh bet I don't know that hoss from a yearling colt?

  56. I ain't never sure of what any hoss will do.

  57. When that hoss starts in pitching, I come alive and drop the glasses into their case and make a jump for my own hoss.

  58. Why, that hoss throwed Buckskin Jimmy clean out of a corral--Did yuh ever see Buckskin Jimmy ride?

  59. I'll drop the tanglefoot and the gun play, and won't play hoss no more.

  60. Pancho rode Ranse's hoss back yesterday; and Ranse is goin' to drive the wagon back himself.

  61. I've done some hoss tradin' with these Dutchmen around Fredericksburg, and I know the style of the varmints.

  62. And if I was a hoss thief, I'd surely take a long chance for that chestnut gelding.

  63. Look out for hoss thieves," advised McClellan.

  64. I don't know how they act; but you bet no hoss thief gets off with my hoss and me watchin'.

  65. Then there's the question of hoss thieves.

  66. A hoss threw her and stepped on her leg an' broke it ve'y badly neah the knee.

  67. I was rescood & as I was bein carrid to the tavern on a hemlock Bored I sed in a feeble voise, "Boys, playin hoss isn't my Fort.

  68. His hoss is about to run from under 'im, his dem legs is so long.

  69. I'd sorter be afeard of a mettlesome hoss like that'un.

  70. I'll bet a hoss you are thinkin' o' galavantin' 'er back home.

  71. He must 'a' had his hoss already hitched out in the thicket.

  72. I knew the track of the hoss I lent him by a loose shoe.

  73. Ez I was saying to the Don yer, when two high-toned gents like you and him come together in a delicate matter of this kind, it ain't no hoss trade nor sharp practice.

  74. The hoss got tangled in some ropes and stumbled, just as he was about to leap into the place where Mary Portman sat.

  75. The hoss started right for the seats where the school misses was setting.

  76. His father was a hoss trainer and trader there for a good many years afore he died--w'ich was about two years ago.

  77. It's over three years ago since you left that other time, an' you came back just as you said, ridin' on a black hoss with silver trimmed leather.

  78. I sure gave him a chase; I wanted the black hoss to show up well when I landed, but I sent him along pretty steady an' took extra care of him.

  79. As it was the hoss had smashed his leg something fierce.

  80. You could tell by the color of his skin that he was an indoor man; but he sat a hoss like a cow puncher, an' as soon as he got things runnin' to suit him on our place he got to makin' side trips to the other ranches.

  81. Yes, the' is a way to fight a hoss fair--that is, as fair as any fight is.

  82. Jim had a black Arabian stallion an' a couple o' high grade mares an' he was showin' up something fancy in the hoss line.

  83. We watered about noon at a little snow stream on the opposite side of old Savage; but we et our vittles on hoss back an' we didn't waste any time on the waterin'.

  84. I carried a spear with a little flag on it, an' rode a hoss built like a barrel.

  85. A hoss whose master tends him right And worters him with daily care, Will do your biddin' with delight, And act as docile as YOU air.

  86. Jest then Morris's hoss whinnied in the barn, and she glanced up quick and smilin' and says, 'Somebody come to see somebody?

  87. I bless the hoss from hoof to head-- From head to hoof, and tale to mane!

  88. Gus Tidwell will drive you home in his buggy in the cool of the evenin', an' you can leave your hoss at Clopton's for a day or two.

  89. I seed the stringer arterwards, but I never could make up my mind that my hoss walked it wi' me a-straddle of his back.

  90. Why, Fred Erby's hoss that he was fined for furious driving of was old Dexter alongside of him!

  91. Last hoss I had killed I swore was a trotter, and all I got was thirty pounds and interest.

  92. It is true I was made an offer for him the last time I was in town, and, for the man looked kinder simple, and you know how it is yourself with hoss trading, I asked the cuss mor'n the animal might have been worth.


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