horsebreaker

“The Shrew Tamed”--a high-bred horse of soft silken coat, dappled with play of light and shade as on velvet--subdued by a “pretty horsebreaker,” is certainly unfortunate as a subject. ...

The tailors and the Lady 2009

“The Shrew Tamed”--a high-bred horse of soft silken coat, dappled with play of light and shade as on velvet--subdued by a “pretty horsebreaker,” is certainly unfortunate as a subject. ...

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier, and horsebreaker.

Hard Times 2002

I can't remember all she called me: barbarian horsebreaker, son of cattle thieves, northern lout, a savage not fit to live indoors.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

The eyes of the unfortunate animal are covered with a bandage, and a tremendous bit, a pound weight or more, clapped into his mouth; the horsebreaker puts on a pair of spurs six inches long, and with rowels like penknives, and jumping on his back, urges him to his very utmost speed.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

He had been bred amongst horses from his boyhood, for his father had been a horsebreaker, and when he had run away from home and enlisted, he had satisfied ambition by becoming a driver of artillery.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

He was accustomed to say 'twas a mercy it didn't hinder his profession -- which, being that of a horsebreaker, freed him, as a rule, from the necessity of much walking.

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

She described the chivalrous sundowner who had on one occasion helped her through a week's washing; and Zack Duppo the horsebreaker, whose Christmas pudding had been a culinary triumph, and the loyalty of faithful Wombo, who had done violence to all his savage instincts in acting as house-servant until the advent of the Malay boy Kuppi.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

"Well, I've seen a few, but he beats 'em all," said the horsebreaker.

Mates at Billabong 1911

As one whose mode of livelihood was trick and device outside the law it had behooved him ever to restrain himself from violent outbreaks, to school and curb and tame his natural tendencies as a horsebreaker might gentle a spirited colt.

From Place to Place 1910