Now they walked beside the air-ship into the balloon house, as its trainer or the stable-boys grasp the bridle of their racehorse after the course and lead him back in honour to the stable with his jockey in the saddle.
All the efforts of breeders, then, have failed appreciably to improve the form of the British racehorse in the course of over a century and a quarter.
At this time Lord Godolphin, who had the happiness to have a great racehorse named after him, occupied the chief place in the Ministry.
He talked like a racehorse approaching the winning-post, every muscle in action.
Will a racehorseever be reared fleeter than Eclipse?
Man can create not only anomalous breeds, but others having their whole structure admirably co- ordinated for certain purposes, such as the racehorse and dray-horse, or the greyhound and bulldog.
The English racehorsemay have reached this limit; but it already surpasses in fleetness its own wild progenitor and all other equine species.
Neither sheep, goats, European cattle, nor pigs are valued for their fleetness or strength; and we do not possess breeds differing in these respects like the racehorse and dray-horse.
He talked like a racehorseapproaching the winning-post.
The immense powers of conversation of which we read so much in his early days, when he "talked like a racehorse approaching the winning post," and held the whole company spellbound by his tropical eloquence, had utterly vanished.
He talked like a racehorse approaching the winning-post--every muscle in action, and the utmost energy of expression flung out into every burst.
The accompanying portrait of Grey Diomed, a son of Diomed, the winner of the first Derby, in 1780, gives a good idea of the racehorse of this period.
His packhorse showed surprising pace And won hands down -- he was The Ace, A well-known racehorse in disguise.
Our flashest shearer then had gone To train a racehorse for a race, And while his sporting fit was on He couldn't be relied upon, So 'Gundagai' shore in his place.
After his return from the West Indies, his love of adventure was excited by the news that two ships--the Racehorse and the Carcass--were being fitted out for a voyage of discovery to the North Pole.
All went well with the Racehorse and the Carcass until they neared the Polar regions.
The position of the following is uncertain, "greyhound and racehorse have an analogy to each other.
The English racehorse may have reached this limit; but it already surpasses in fleetness its own wild progenitor, and all other equine species.
Edwards, that with the English racehorse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal.
The resemblance of the greyhound and racehorse is hardly more fanciful than the analogies which have been drawn by some authors between very distinct animals.
You can see in their eyes the same hard glitter that shows in the bulldog's eyes as he limps across the ring, or in the eye of the racehorse as he lies down to it when his opponent is outpacing him.
A mob will crawl along a road slowly enough to exasperate a snail, but let a lamb get away in a bit of rough country, and a racehorse can't head him back again.
Everybody who could procure anything upon which to ride, from a racehorse to a donkey, was there that day, and vehicles of all descriptions blocked up every available inch of the lordly avenues and well-kept carriage-drives.
Sometimes a racehorse is hitched double with a trotter.
He knows a racehorse from a cow; But that is all he knows of stock: His chiefest care is how to dock Expenses, and he sends from town To cut the shearers' wages down On Kiley's Run.
I read: 'The racehorse Strife And jockey William Fife Disqualified for life -- Suspicious running.
He'll put the stuns on all them nobs, too, that think a racehorse must always come out of one of their training stables.
Bring up the racehorse you find there, and any one in charge.
They picked up any good-looking nag or second-class racehorse that they fell across, and took them to a certain place.
The Racehorse and Carcass bombs, being selected as the strongest, and therefore the properest, vessels to be employed in this voyage, were taken into dock, and fitted in the most complete manner for the service.
In October 1773, the Racehorse and Carcass were both paid off; and these friends and companions, fully sensible of each other's worth, separated with sentiments of a sincere mutual esteem.
Each morning and afternoon Jimmy put him through a stiff run along Willing's trial track, and Mr. Willing, after examining the racehorse carefully, announced that he was in fine condition.
But to the experts and racehorse men who pleaded to look at the great black horse, Mr. Willing turned a deaf ear.
A year after I retired from Maxim & Gay, Attorney-General Knox decided that racehorse tipping is an offense against the old lottery law, and those who now advertise tips instruct that no money be sent by mail.
Even the honest and brave pugilist was found to draw villainy round him, just as the pure and noble racehorse does.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "racehorse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
