If the workman's piano was a jews-harp and his Pullman car a spavined cayuse, his employer was not erecting palaces in which to stable his blood stock, nor purchasing dissolute princes for his daughters to play at marriage and divorce with.
In walking I am like a spavined horse, and heat as I get on.
To take a less conceited simile: I am like a spavined horse, who sets out lame and stiff, but when he warms in his gear makes a pretty good trot of it, so that it is better to take a good stage of him while you can get it.
The time of all others when a spavined horse will be apt to show his lameness will be the day following a hard day's work, and when he makes his first move from the stable in the morning is the proper moment for examination.
Now Jasper Starbuck, is it possible that you put off that spavined hoss on Brother Fetterson?
They went out to the stable, and when Jasper attempted to lead forth the horse, the animal cringed and held back, and in his eye there was an expression of pain, for in truth he was so badly spavined that he had to hobble on three legs.
Unfortunately for Cunningham's theory, but fortunately for mankind in general, spavined horses and mares do not beget spavined offspring.
When made to step aside in the stall, a spavinedhorse will flex the affected member abruptly and when weight is taken on the diseased leg, symptoms are evinced of pain, and weight is immediately shifted to the sound limb.
The position assumed by the spavinedhorse is often characteristic.
Goby tipped him freely and frequently, and Bob sold him a spavined pony, aged fifteen years.
As to Backbiter, the rat-tailed andspavined bone-setter, curse me if I would have him as a gift: a noble beast!
You were always a heavy-headed devil," said Adair; "and take as much spurring as a spavined horse.
And the little broken-knee'd and spavined pony you were compelled to borrow--do pray tell us how he carried you?
Why does nobody," said our Doctor, "begin the fashion of driving six spavined horses, all spavined of the same leg?
Right there is where my lode of information turns to an old spavined crowbait [87], and folds its wings, for I've pumped it dry.
A minister is no more sacred when riding behind a spavined and ringboned nag than when whirling along after a horse that can swallow a mile in 2.
Spavined wusser'n a carpenter's saw-hoss, and with heaves like a gasoline dory!
And they're all tryin' to borry money off'm me and sell me spavined hosses.
If he bought a horse, it was sure to prove spavined or wind-broken.
Even the old grizzled man left his seat by the chimney-corner, and took his place on the spring-cart drawn by the spavined mare.
He brought me home from Strabane on the old cart drawn by the spavined horse, and though it was well past midnight when we returned I had to wash the vehicle before I turned into bed.
The sweat was wet on his steaming loins and shoulders bent and scarred, And he dropped to earth like a spavined mule that's struck in the knacker's yard.
He could not see, he said, why he should buy spavined horses simply because he was half a millionaire.
After a world of tugging and struggling a miserable spavined nag was pulled from a corral to the patio, and secured to a post.
So with that understanding I will go with you, provided you will also feed figs to a spavined ass if we find one on the way.
Mine is but a spavined beast, and it would be a disgrace for the holy man of God to bestride him.
He rode on a bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse, from his neck to his heel.
He got down off the bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse, and came in.
He rode on a bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse.
I feel as if I had spraint one leg and spavined t'other.
A man who likes a good joke will never drive a spavined hoss,' he answered merrily.
