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  • My horoscope sign isSagittarius, the archer who is half-man and half-horse.

    Tom Matlack: Is It Safe to Come Out of the Cave? Tom Matlack 2011

  • Crockett's brags were legendary, but they were a comic art form practiced throughout the frontier, and so tongue-in-cheek as to be a form of modesty in themselves, as in the much-reported: "I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning."

    An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011

  • Instead, the 136th Preakness will probably be remembered for Kegasus, the half-man, half-horse mascot created to draw fans to Pimlico's boozy infield.

    An NBA Voyage to the Heart of Dirk-Ness Jason Gay 2011

  • Keen to keep the momentum going, organisers have unveiled a new mascot for the race, a half-man, half-horse centaur called Kegasus, reports NBC.

    Men in suits try to do a deal with the Boys of South Africa 2011

  • • According to a 2009 report in Us Weekly, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez kept of portrait of himself as a centaur half-man, half-horse above his bed.

    Deon Grant Has No Concept of Human Proportions 2012

  • My horoscope sign isSagittarius, the archer who is half-man and half-horse.

    Tom Matlack: Is It Safe to Come Out of the Cave? Tom Matlack 2011

  • Flight of the Hippogriff is described as a family coaster that simulates a Hippogriff the half-horse, half-eagle beast from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” training flight over Hogwarts castle.

    That Potter Park « educating alice 2009

  • Flight of the Hippogriff is described as a family coaster that simulates a Hippogriff the half-horse, half-eagle beast from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” training flight over Hogwarts castle.

    2009 September 16 « educating alice 2009

  • But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching half-horse halfman, with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.

    'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives' 2009

  • It's possible; a centaur is half-man, half-horse, and you can see what part of the horse they used to make it, and Mr. Cheney certainly has those qualities.

    Dick Cheney, the Unique Creature 2007

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