horse-flesh

Each horse averaged eighteen hundredweight; thus, to the eye of the onlooker, seven thousand two hundred pounds of straining horse-flesh seemed wrenching and dragging apart the slim-waisted, delicately bodied, hundred-and-forty pound woman in her fancy street costume.

CHAPTER XXV 2010

"But how much must they want for her?" was Saxon's next question, so impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.

CHAPTER XXI 2010

In the distance, very black against the starlit purple of the night sky, was the outline of the Jhansi fortress with the glow of the city beneath it; Ilderim was staring towards it bright-eyed - I remember that moment so clearly, with the warm gloom and the smell of Indian earth and horse-flesh, the creak of leather and the soft stamping of the beasts.

Fiancée 2010

This was a God send to the people of Sullo, who cut him up as if he had been a bullock, and had almost come to blows about the division of him; so much is horse-flesh esteemed at this place.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Had this been known to our cavalry when we first occupied Egypt in 1883 – 4 our losses in horse-flesh would have been far less; but official ignorance persisted in feeding the cattle upon heating oats and the riders upon beef, which is indigestible, instead of mutton, which is wholesome.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Tartars eat raw meat, and most commonly [1448] horse-flesh, drink milk and blood, as the nomades of old.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Mr. Leech has as fine an eye for tailory and millinery as for horse-flesh.

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

For though he is a wicked gambling prince, Lenoir, he is beloved in all these regions; his establishment gives life to the town, to the lodging-house and hotel-keepers, to the milliners and hackney-coachmen, to the letters of horse-flesh, to the huntsmen and gardes-de-chasse; to all these honest fiddlers and trumpeters who play so delectably.

The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

“I will spare neither care nor horse-flesh,” answered

Kenilworth 2004

Ah! Wayland, Wayland, many a time thy father said horse-flesh would be the death of thee.

Kenilworth 2004