All fawn-coloured stallions, sleek--their manesto their knees, their tails to their hoofs.
On the road I was met by a little cart, drawn by a pair of spirited ponies, splashed with mud up to their ears, with plaited tails, and red ribbons in their manes and forelocks.
The pagans, not unnaturally, regarded the latter, like their own funeral banquets, as designed to appease the manes of the dead.
The manes of polo ponies and cobs it is the fashion to "hog," or cut off close to the neck.
And here, for the first time in my life, I saw horses wearing the over-draw check, and going about with tails and manescut off.
Every one admired them, and they were proud themselves, especially proud of their flowing manes and tails.
Mares kept for the purpose of breeding have their manes and tails shorn by the Spaniards, that they may fatten sooner, for I know of no other reason.
The same may be said with regard to the darker bays, which have manes and tails of a blackish colour.
We have, however, frequently found white horses sprinkled with black, with black manes and tails, to possess a great deal of strength.
Old Manes bore the bloodless sacrifice, but Hermione said in her heart there came two too many.
Some of the mares were quietly browsing upon the grass, while others were frisking and playing about, now rearing up as if in combat, now rushing in wild gallop, their tossed manes and full tails flung loosely upon the wind.
Muzzles and nostrils, manes and horns, wave wildly about above the river, which is now a swarm of heads.
Five horses walked uneasily around inside the corral, manes and tails whipping in the gale that blew cold from out the north.
Few of them showed saddle marks, all of them snorted and tossed untrimmed manes and tails as they clattered against the stout poles, circling the big corral in a cloud of dust and a thunder of hoof beats.
But will thy manes such a gift bestow As to make violets from thy ashes grow?
But will thy manes such a gift bestow As to make violets from thy ashes grow?
Such was Montaigne's affection for Charron, that he requested him by his will to bear the arms of the Montaignes; and Charrot evinced his gratitude to the manes of his departed friend, by leaving his fortune to the sister of Montaigne.
When we says at home a person is going to Paris and Salamanca, it manes that he is going abroad to study to be a saggart, whether he goes to them places or not.
I manes my lord--you are not going to ruin a poor boy!
Laddie had braided their manes and tails, and they waved like silken floss in the sunshine, and the carriage was freshly washed and the patent leather and brass shone, and we rode flower-covered.
They were lean and slender and yet round too, matched dapple gray on flank and side, with long snow-white manes and tails.
This is particularly so with those that take after the mare, and have manes and tails of the same color.
Those that take after the jack generally have black stripes round their legs, black manes and tails, and black stripes down their backs and across their shoulders, and are more hardy and better animals.
These no sooner beheld the cavalcade of white men than, uttering a wild neigh, they tossed their flowing manes in the breeze and dashed away like a whirlwind.
Their beautiful manes hung at great length down their arched necks, and their thick tails swept the ground.
They are sometimes referred to as the Manes of the dead.
Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits, Per Styga, per manes vehor.
Cerdo and Marcion stood in the same relation toManes that Paul stood in to them.
Out of Philo's doctrine grew a Manichaeanism in the Christian community before Manes was born.
Thus in Lilly's Tragicall Comedie of Alexander and Campaspe, where Manes complains that he serves a master whose house is a tub, Granichus remarks 'That Diogenes that dog should have Manes that dogbolt it grieveth nature and spiteth art.
Dr Livingstone saw two as tall as common donkeys, their manes making their bodies appear of still greater size.
It was customary among the ancients to offer Poppies as a propitiation to the manes of the dead.
Sesame, with Rice and honey, enters into the composition of certain funeral cakes offered to the Manes in the ceremonies, but eaten by the persons present.
Next day he was Lord Mayor no longer; but Alderman O'Connell in his state-coach, with the handsome greys whose manes were tied up with green ribbon, following the new Lord Mayor to the right honourable inauguration.
