| 单词 | plough horse |
| 例句 | While a prisoner on the road from Harper's Ferry to Charlestown, he and his guards came up to a squad of farmers who, on their plough horses, were learning the cavalry drill. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z "Very true; but a contract that stipulates for strong cattle, able to carry twelve stone men with full cavalry equipments, does not read like an engagement to furnish plough horses." The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Yesterday, when the plough horses pulled his express-train off the rails, he descended and pushed it back, and, in consequence, was splashed, not by the mud of the race-track but of the trenches. With the French in France and Salonika It is because I think that there should be more mixing between what you call plough horses and animals used simply for play, that I have been so proud to make you welcome here. Marion Fay And horses—yes, Jonker, even the plough horses, before they go out into the field in the morning, she talks to them. Major Frank He had an engagement to preach somewhere beyond the Clyde on a Sabbath evening, and his excellent and attached friend and elder, Mr. Kello of Lindsay-lands, accompanied him on his big plough horse. Spare Hours As they reached the gate, a team of plough horses was passing in led by a peasant lad, while a lay brother, with his gown tucked up, rode sideways on one, whistling. The Armourer's Prentices It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles—buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons—with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb. The Henchman The major bowed till his ostrich feather touched the mane of his wall-eyed plough horse, then turned bridle, and regained his ranks at a gait something between a stumble and a rack. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales There was something glaringly incongruous between his glistening silk hat and the long-haired "plough horse" and rickety buggy he was driving. Westerfelt As they reached the gate, a team of plough horses was passing in led by a peasant lad, while a lay brother, with his gown tucked up, rode sideways on one, whistling. The Armourer's Prentices Spring is a lean old plough horse with its ribs showing—it's a pile of refuse in a field, parched by the sun and the rain to an ominous cleanliness. The Beautiful and Damned The drive over the prairie in the democrat wagon behind our smartest pair of plough horses was a pleasure that never grew tame from repetition. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day "The little Zanthe could walk away from her like a racer from a plough horse." The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The chase was up; and Gilbert Potter, on his "plough horse," was the only huntsman in at the death. The Story of Kennett "Didn't you say one of the Captain's plough horses was ailing yesterday?" Wanderers With the settler and his wife it was, "If we only had a few pounds to get the farm cleared and fenced, and another good plough horse, and a few more cows." The Rising of the Court "Mine's not exactly a plough horse," said Harry, as he stroked the mane of his own splendid bay, one especially detailed for him on this errand. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign They remind one of plough horses, that have filled their bellies, and stand snoring softly, because there's no work today. The Great Hunger Mounted on a peaceful, unwieldy plough horse, he was nevertheless accoutred and armed after his most extravagant fashion. Susy, a story of the Plains |
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