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But the dog ran over the drawbridge into the house, and Sir Lancelot gat from his horse and tethered it to the post beside the horseblock, and so went across the bridge, which was full sodden and worm-eaten, and bent beneath his weight.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

The wall was broken down in many places, and the path all overgrown and weedy, and as he came to the courtyard before the house, he saw the fishponds choked with weeds and the horseblock green with moss, and in the great doorway grew charnel and hellebore, and the spiked hemlock waved and spilt its seed in the wind.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act of mounting his steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the _protegée_ of

Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 Various

Upon dismounting, he tied the horse near the steps of the piazza instead of the horseblock, so that I found I was just upon the level with the stirrup, standing at a certain elevation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

And I will wait for thee on the horseblock yonder, and thou wilt be able to see me, though I cannot see thee.

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

He was then locked to a clog with an iron chain and horseblock until the Friday morning following, and finally abjured the town before the Mayor and Bailiffs, at the same time making restitution of 6_s.

The Customs of Old England

''Twould be but the grinding of a chain beside a horseblock.'

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert

"Reckon we're the only visitors to-day," whispered Hiram as he stopped at the horseblock in front of the meeting-house.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

I laid the pie on the horseblock and climbed the catalpa carefully, so as not to frighten my robins.

Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

Wasps were buzzing confusedly about the eaves again, marvelling at the balmy air, and the two Misses Russell, Puss and Emily, were seated within the wide doorway at needlework when Virginia dismounted at the horseblock.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909