ewe-necked

The ewe-necked gelding stopped in front of the shanty where a small light glowed in the window.

Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

The ewe-necked gelding stopped in front of the shanty where a small light glowed in the window.

Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

Moorish horses are wiry little beasts, but you seldom see a handsome one: either they are ewe-necked or they fall away in the hindquarters; their feet are allowed to grow too long, and their legs are ruined through tight hobbling.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

The animal should be fine in the bone, with clean muzzle, a tail like a rat's, and not ewe-necked; short on the legs.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

Such a courser; all blood and bone, short-backed, broad-chested, and -- but that he was a little ewe-necked -- faultless in form and figure.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

Neither was there any mistaking the bug-hunter on his ewe-necked sorrel, which, displaying unexpected bursts of speed, was keeping in the lead and heading straight for the ranch-house.

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

With a startled snort, the ewe-necked pony plunged and backed around, clear of his motionless mistress.

Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 1912

The animal he rode was a hammer-headed, ewe-necked beast with a disconsolate eye and a half-shed winter coat.

The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909

Page the rear of that rattling dust trail, with a stiff seat and impassive face, rising and falling rhythmically on an ewe-necked silver-bitted black brute with a hammer head.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

“Squadron talk; and you’re full of it, ” retorted Fleetwood -- “‘I said to the major, ’ and ‘The captain told the chief trumpeter’ -- all that sort of thing -- and those Porto Rico spurs of yours, and the ewe-necked glyptosaurus you block the bridle-path with every morning.

The Fighting Chance 1899