| 单词 | spavined |
| 例句 | But it’s hardly as if Hirschfeld were content to sit in that spavined old barber’s chair up in his East Side aerie, sealed off from the wider world. Always Leave Them Smiling: The Art of Al Hirschfeld 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z I was already feeling like a spavined, misshapen old gnome. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He was searching for a column idea. He found a third nipple. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Kodak, once a powerhouse in the photography and specialty chemicals businesses, was a spavined shadow of its former self by 2019. Column: How a botched COVID 'loan' to Kodak made the company and government look like fools 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Avenue V’s contribution was 300 million gallons a year dumped into Coney Island Creek, nowadays a forlorn backwater known mostly for its collection of spavined ships and a rotting yellow submarine. Benefits of Renewed Brooklyn Sewage Station Include a Creek Less Foul 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Long rows of stables were filled with broken-down horses, spavined and ring-boned, with ribs sticking out of their sides, or huge sores on their flanks, dripping with blood. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z If you are going to sell me a spavined horse, don't! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Did you ever ride a spavined horse down a hill? The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z They are blind, spavined, ring-boned, with the heaves, with the glanders, and with every disease that horseflesh is heir to. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Some of them are spavined in their minds, I fear. Three Little Women A Story for Girls 2011-11-17T03:00:30.707Z Then again, a pretty honest Alderman would allow a friend to sell a spavined horse to the city. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z "Walks like a pair of spavined sugar tongs," was Waddles' comment. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z I've got a spavined, ring-boned cayuse over in the range that I'm going to put you up against when you join us. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z I should think that such hosses as he furnished would be a vain thing for safety, for nigh about the hull of 'em was spavined, or ring-boned, or foundered, or had the blind staggers. Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia 2011-05-22T02:00:13.943Z I have seen enough of it in the working to know that it is not such a spavined animal as some of our political jockeys would have us believe. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Never before had the spavined old mare fled over the ground with the velocity she did that night, and Doctor Wiseman did not breathe freely until he was double-locked in his own room. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z The horse you had left him, and whose performance he had encomiumized, if put up to auction, would be found spavined, or windgalled, or broken-down. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z I have seen spavined work-horses turned out to die that moved precisely as these men did. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z "And we without a spavined cayuse to follow 'em!" raged one of the cow-punchers. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z Say, wouldst thou rise with a lantern jaw and a spavined knee? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z It cannot be said that the plow affords a cure for spavin, but the spavined horse often materially improves while working at it. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. A spavined snail could beat Breck making the circuit of the sacks, and cross the pan pulled up. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager I can understand, too, why the Quaker City pilgrims—ambling into Damascus on those old, blind, halt and spavined Beirut nags—made their entry by night. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise As to Backbiter, the rat-tailed and spavined bone-setter, curse me if I would have him as a gift: a noble beast! ha, ha, ha! Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency There are people like spavined horses, and one must always get them warm in their work, and they never show the blemish. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Also, we passed a small forge where the blacksmith paused in the shoeing of a sleepy and spavined steed, the better to gaze at us. A Top-Floor Idyl Their horses, being borrowed by the committee of arrangements, with the understanding that if killed they were to be paid for, were spavined, foundered, one-eyed, wretched beasts. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Such a marching of Intellect is distinctly of the spavined kind; what the Jockeys call "all action and no go." A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time After a world of tugging and struggling a miserable spavined nag was pulled from a corral to the patio, and secured to a post. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Mrs. Alving, the leading lady, who keeps her chin high in the air, has married a moral monstrosity in the shape of a spavined rake, and hides it from the world. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 "I am stiff as any old spavined hoss!" whined the poor fellow, straightening his legs, and attempting to walk. Cudjo's Cave With four starved and perhaps spavined hacks, he slowly sets forth under a mountain of bandboxes. Old Roads and New Roads "And the little broken-knee'd and spavined pony you were compelled to borrow—do pray tell us how he carried you?" interposed Frank, looking as demure and innocent as possible. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 The fiddle was wofully out of tune, and it rasped and screeched and limped like a spavined colt, but the voice of Peppers went ahead with the bellow. Dwellers in the Hills “Ye look little enough like a runaway horse, ye wind-broken, spavined old crow-bait, you!” she criticized Rab as he stood half asleep in the sun. Rim o' the World Harry had retired his tandem after Tom, with a stiff-backed idiot by his side, had clattered after him through the village behind the two spavined nags to the amusement of many people. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry Of the two, his taxi was far worse—rickety, spavined, with every evidence of decrepitude. Juggernaut So we mane to squall till they think in Douglas we've got spavined wind or population of the heart, or something. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Who would think of trying to get into the good graces of any one by sending a spavined horse, or a cow with foot-and-mouth-disease, as a present? Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet On the edge of the encampment horses grazed—sorry beasts for the most part, galled, broken-kneed and spavined, weary and heart-sick as the captive lion. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance No old spavined creatures, but young, strong, sound ones. The U-boat hunters But the hock may be "spavined," while to all outward observation it still retains its perfect form. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Yes, I look after the spavined roan on which he rides about the Park, but he’s no master of mine—he doesn’t pay me. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest I never take any liberties with even a blind and spavined derelict. The Paternoster Ruby The load was drawn by four broken down, spavined animals, the crippled man riding one of the horses of the rear span, the boy one of the leaders. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 Those were the days of 'shoddy' cloth and spavined horses. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Alfred was provided with a rickety buggy and a spavined horse. Watch Yourself Go By The spavined hock caused one hind quarter to sag somewhat, but aside from that his pose was strictly according to the regulations. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle "Looks like that car is spavined, or something," commented Bill. The Border Boys Across the Frontier He said he'd been fired once, because they thought he was spavined; but there was no more spavin to him than there was to a fresh-laid egg—he was as sound as a dollar. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Michael: Better a sound tup than a spavined nag. Krindlesyke Thomas Carlyle's sentences are knee-sprung in front and his phrases are spavined behind, and, therefore, Carlyle has "a style" but not "style." The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict It was Marengo Todd, most obnoxious of all that hateful crowd of the Cap'n's "wife's relations"—the man who had misused the Cap'n's honeymoon guilelessness in order to borrow money and sell him spavined horses. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The position assumed by the spavined horse is often characteristic. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 It's sprained and spavined and Lord knows what. Kenny My aged and spavined horse was called by father "Rosinante" for Don Quixote's bony steed, also "Blind Guide" and "Heathen Philosopher." Memories and Anecdotes Then "Pompey," a venerable nag, took his place; and though he had nothing to say, he held out his spavined leg, which dramatic posture excited the utmost enthusiasm of the audience. Around The Tea-Table They went very slowly, though, for Lars had harnessed the old spavined bay to the sledge. The Emperor of Portugalia We gave the balance and ten bushels of wheat to Mr. Grimshaw for a spavined horse, after which he agreed to give us at least a year's extension on the principal. The Light in the Clearing An old Indian jogging by on a spavined horse and wrapped in a dirty blanket was the only person they saw all day. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Your aunt has a lot of old spavined furniture which would bring about tu'pence at public sale. Walking-Stick Papers A minister is no more sacred when riding behind a spavined and ringboned nag than when whirling along after a horse that can swallow a mile in 2.30. Around The Tea-Table No … A broken sword is better than none … One spavined white horse cannot be expected to carry two men a four days' journey. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The sight of their gaunt ribs and spavined legs gave me more delight than the whole two hundred and twenty hunters of the Emperor which I have seen in their stalls at Fontainebleau. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Some there are who dub hard riders worthless and a draghunt crew-- Tailors who do all the damage, mounted on a spavined screw. A Cotswold Village These were the lines: "Pranced there in, on the arena of the great debate, like a trick mule in a circus or a spavined nightmare on the track of a beautiful dream, Logan of Illinois." Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 The furniture consisted of two wooden chairs and a spavined horsehair sofa. Tracks of a Rolling Stone "You see, boys, it's this way," Ryder explained to the three as they sat around the spavined table in the grimy back room of Ryder's "office." A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West We had scarcely journeyed another mile when, near Essonnes, noted for its paper-mills, one of our carts broke down, which was scarcely surprising, the country being hilly, the roads heavy, and the horses spavined. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 This gallant rode a very sprightly steed, which struggled under the double calamity of being slightly spavined and quite blind in the left eye. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Now between Neil and Sandy lay a feud which had its beginnings what time the latter doctored a spavined mare and sold her for a price to the former's cousin Rab. Quaint Courtships Their poor, broken down, spavined horses, could not stand any additional load. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. My friend, Sir Philip, declares you never hinted that the pony was spavined. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Even Old Methusaleh could trot there in twelve, and he was spavined and a little wind-broke, while Teddy and Hal, who were young and frisky, could get there as quick as a wink. Half-Past Seven Stories It is not fine music, that of the hand-organ and the street bands; it is indeed too oft a cracked and spavined pleasure. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 I have, singular as it may seem, known mules that have been spavined, curbed, and ringboned, and yet have been worked for years without exhibiting lameness. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put I collected a regular hospital of spavined, knock-kneed beasts, and he took them from me without a word at thirty pounds apiece. Hyacinth He was mounted on his own old, spavined grey mare, that had performed this honorable office many times in her youth. The Black Creek Stopping-House "If my policy is carried out, my town lot'll be worth a pocketful of gold-plated watches or a stud of spavined mares." The World for Sale, Complete "If my policy is carried out, my town lot'll be worth a pocketful of gold- plated watches or a stud of spavined mares." The World for Sale, Volume 2. Each should do his part, or else one soon becomes strained, sprained, and spavined, or broken-winded, and that one is about the best in a general way that suffers the most. Nature and Human Nature A nice trick this is, Sergeant," he said, "to start out on a trip to dodge Indians with a spavined horse. Short Stories for English Courses To men of Pasquale's type, a woman ill is of no more use than a spavined horse or a broken-down motor-car. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel He sees equally well out of both eyes and is neither lame nor spavined. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School That is a jaded, spavined hobby of his, and he is too shrewd a logician to involve himself in the inconsistency of 'extended suffrage' which excludes women. St. Elmo You see she was just naturally hungry for somethin' to pet an' care for; luck offered a spavined Englishman, an' she was tryin' to make the best of it. Happy Hawkins The tale will remind old Anglo-Indians of the two Bengal officers who were great at such "sells" and who "swopped" a spavined horse for a broken-down "buggy." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] I want a man who can look over a bond issue, or whatever it is, and tell me at a glance whether it's spavined or wind-broken. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day This was Mr. Thumble, who had ridden over to Hogglestock on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable, and which had once been the bishop's cob. The Last Chronicle of Barset At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own. To Have and to Hold He was glad to talk to the gentleman, especially because while they were talking his broken-winded white horse and the emaciated spavined one could go at a foot-pace, which they always liked to do. Resurrection One spavined white horse cannot be expected to carry two men a four days' journey. Twelve Stories and a Dream "Right there is where my lode of information turns to an old spavined crowbait, and folds its wings, for I've pumped it dry." Heart of the West Even the doctor's spavined mare was pressed into service, though she halts on one leg and stops to get her breath half a dozen times in going up one short hill. A Strange Disappearance |
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