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  • Fitzsimmons soon established himself as the most successful condi-tioner of Thoroughbreds in the nation.†   (source)
  • This is not a day at the races, Miss Doyle, and you are not a Thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • The leaders of his expedition, Dan Mazur and Jonathan Pratt, along with French climber Etienne Fine, were thoroughbreds.†   (source)
  • He had nothing in common with the stray dogs in the street, much less with the thoroughbred racers that assorted families of the aristocracy were raising.†   (source)
  • Her nostrils flared with each inhalation, like a thoroughbred after the quarter mile.†   (source)
  • He'd done eleven colts already and this now was the twelfth, a beautiful black thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • They were getting rowdy, laughing at the spasmodic progress of the insect, urging it on as though it were a thoroughbred pounding across turf toward a finish line.†   (source)
  • Kentucky was sleek, glossy Thoroughbreds grazing on rich grass.†   (source)
  • Have they eyes to gauge your worth, have they the heart to love you, will they know what thoroughbred prances towards them in caparisons of honour?†   (source)
  • Raises Thoroughbred racehosses.†   (source)
  • Otherwise he possessed the markings of the military thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • He lifted her nightgown, rolled it up over her belly, coaxed her Thoroughbred legs apart.†   (source)
  • The horse was the best hunt horse, young but not inexperienced, the color of an expensive gun-stock and built almost like a racing thoroughbred, except that his legs were thicker and stronger.†   (source)
  • He half rose from his seat, like a jockey on a thoroughbred, and pointed his gavel at Johnny Wayne.†   (source)
  • It sounded as smooth and rhythmic as a thoroughbred trotting around the back stretch in a harness race.†   (source)
  • He was confused now, but Dessie could hold his bit and point him, the way a handler points a thoroughbred at the barrier to show his breeding and his form.†   (source)
  • This little thoroughbred was a case in point.†   (source)
  • It may be the greatest display of raw speed ever seen in Thoroughbred racing.†   (source)
  • ELESIN No. Even a thoroughbred is not without pity for the turf he strikes with his hoof.†   (source)
  • In the part of Kentucky I come from people don't own Thoroughbreds," I told her.†   (source)
  • With the relegalization of wagering, no sport was growing faster than Thoroughbred racing.†   (source)
  • The little thoroughbred watched her all the way.†   (source)
  • By the time he finished, the thoroughbred was sweating hard.†   (source)
  • Tom worked on getting the thoroughbred focused on him.†   (source)
  • A feral hog, some hornets, and a prodigy led me through the woods so that I might stumble upon the first girl I ever kissed riding "TOC like he's a thoroughbred next to the grave of an Austro-Hungarian Archduke.†   (source)
  • That's a thoroughbred horse.†   (source)
  • He rode up on his white Thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • My faithful friends, let our feet touch together this last time, lead me into the other market with sounds that cover my skin with down yet make my limbs strike earth like a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • She had this idea that everyone in Kentucky owned at least one Thoroughbred, and it took me some time to convince her that I had never even been close enough to a horse to get kicked.†   (source)
  • Across the country that day, the ballots for year-end honors in Thoroughbred racing began arriving in journalists' postboxes.†   (source)
  • A Thoroughbred's neck, while broad from top to bottom, is surprisingly narrow in width, like the body of a fish.†   (source)
  • Giannini saw Howard rekindling his lost love of horses and thought he should stop dabbling and commit himself fully to Thoroughbred racing.†   (source)
  • Tom had Rimrock turning on a dime, in deft little white-socked steps, so he was always facing the circling thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • They ate at long tables on the terrace outside Rona's low, white adobe ranch house and Tom found himself sitting next to the woman who owned the little thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • "George Woolf is at Santa Anita, there near the paddock, facing [sculptor Tex] Wheeler's magnificent figure of Seabiscuit," wrote the Thoroughbred Times's Jack Shettlesworth.†   (source)
  • Many others, including most of the jockeys and prominent reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Racing Form, Thoroughbred Record, Los Angeles Examiner, and other major publications, agreed.†   (source)
  • The thoroughbred was moving out nicely now but Tom had only worked on one side, so he turned him around to make him run the other way and did the whole thing over again.†   (source)
  • The average Thoroughbred is 8.†   (source)
  • He built a track like none other on earth, a cathedral to the Thoroughbred so resplendent that writer David Alexander described his first sight of it as one of the most stirring visual experiences of his life.†   (source)
  • Thoroughbred racing had a lengthy and celebrated history in America, but at the height of the temperance and antigambling reform movements in the first decade of the century, a series of race-fixing scandals involving bookmakers inspired a wave of legislation outlawing wagering.†   (source)
  • Train travel was so exhausting and upsetting to most Thoroughbreds that few could be taken outside their region.†   (source)
  • Thoroughbreds are placed in age classes according to the year in which they are born, rather than their birth month.†   (source)
  • Featuring bottom-level Thoroughbreds and quarter horses, these tracks offered the worst of low-rent racing.†   (source)
  • Thoroughbreds run because they love to, but when overraced they can become stale and uninterested, especially when repeatedly trounced and bullied by their riders, as Seabiscuit was.†   (source)
  • Impov-erished mountain-dwelling Mexicans, who usually got around on wormy little burros, were soon cantering through town in high style, straddling blue-blooded Thoroughbreds worth a lifetime of their income.†   (source)
  • Twelve straining Thoroughbreds; Howard and Smith in the grand-stand; Agnes in the surging crowd; Woolf behind Pollard, on Heelfly; Marcela up on the water wagon with her eyes squeezed shut; the leaping, shouting reporters in the press box; Pollard's family crowded around the radio in a neighbor's house in Edmonton; tens of thousands of roaring spectators and millions of radio listeners painting this race in their imaginations: All this fell away.†   (source)
  • Intellectually, he was a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • Only a thoroughbred do-gooder can appreciate the feeling, the roseate, dawnlike, and nauseating glow that enveloped me on the return trip that day.†   (source)
  • Would I approve of breeding scrub stock to thoroughbreds?†   (source)
  • I'd gladly give the horses free of charge if I knew they were going to be ridden by boys I know, gentlemen used to thoroughbreds.†   (source)
  • In the livestock pens there were steers that looked as square as an outhouse and pigs almost as big as cows and thoroughbred chickens.†   (source)
  • …demon believed be could restore by sheer indomitable willing the Sutpen's Hundred which he remembered and had lost, labored with no hope of pay or reward who must have seen long before the demon did (or would admit it) that the task was hopeless—blind Jones who apparently saw still in that furious lecherous wreck the old fine figure of the man who once galloped on the black thoroughbred about that domain two boundaries of which the eye could not see from any point "Yes," Quentin said.†   (source)
  • But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses from scrubs, that he was not of their class.†   (source)
  • He admired the drawling elegance of the wealthy rice and cotton planters, who rode into Savannah from their moss-hung kingdoms, mounted on thoroughbred horses and followed by the carriages of their equally elegant ladies and the wagons of their slaves.†   (source)
  • Carley's first requisite for character in a woman was that she be a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • A rider's love of a thoroughbred shone in them.†   (source)
  • You're beautiful and sweet and proud, but you're no thoroughbred!†   (source)
  • No fear or awkwardness of hers should be allowed to hamper that thoroughbred mustang.†   (source)
  • This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth.†   (source)
  • On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon.†   (source)
  • She's a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • The mustang turned in the gate, slid to a stop, and stood quivering, restive, tossing its thoroughbred head, black as a coal, with freedom and fire in every line.†   (source)
  • The first time occurred when the master was trying to teach a spirited thoroughbred the method of opening and closing gates without the rider's dismounting.†   (source)
  • I hunt the scum of the earth — sailors from tramp ships — lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels — a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.†   (source)
  • The magnificent coach, drawn by four of the finest thoroughbreds in England, had driven off along the London road, with Sir Percy Blakeney on the box, holding the reins in his slender feminine hands, and beside him Lady Blakeney wrapped in costly furs.†   (source)
  • But she divined when he was thinking what a picture she looked there, on her knees before the bread-pan, with flour on her arms; of the difference a girl brought into any place; of how strange it seemed that this girl, instead of lying a limp and disheveled rag under a tree, weeping and praying for home, made the best of a bad situation and unproved it wonderfully by being a thoroughbred.†   (source)
  • A finely chiseled oval face; clear, olive-tinted skin, long eyes set wide apart and black as coal, beautiful to look into; a slender, straight nose that had something nervous and delicate about it which made Duane think of a thoroughbred; and a mouth by no means small, but perfectly curved; and hair like jet—all these features proclaimed her beauty to Duane.†   (source)
  • He appeared quite large for his species, was almost red in color, had a racy and powerful build, and a fine thoroughbred head with dark, fiery eyes.†   (source)
  • Sir Percy was an enthusiastic whip; his four thoroughbreds, which had been sent down to Dover a couple of days before, were just sufficiently fresh and restive to add zest to the expedition and Marguerite revelled in anticipation of the few hours of solitude, with the soft night breeze fanning her cheeks, her thoughts wandering, whither away?†   (source)
  • Then they came pounding out of the door, a file of thoroughbreds, to plunge about the barnyard, heads and tails up, manes flying.†   (source)
  • In that country, where every rider boasted of a fine mount and was eager for a race, where thoroughbreds dotted the wonderful grazing ranges, Venters rode a horse that was sad proof of his misfortunes.†   (source)
  • Be a thoroughbred!†   (source)
  • Carley had stubbornly kept on riding and climbing until she killed her secret doubt that she was really a thoroughbred, until she satisfied her own insistent vanity that she could train to a point where this outdoor life was not too much for her strength.†   (source)
  • But then good society has its claret and its velvet carpets, its dinner-engagements six weeks deep, its opera and its faery ball-rooms; rides off its ennui on thoroughbred horses; lounges at the club; has to keep clear of crinoline vortices; gets its science done by Faraday, and its religion by the superior clergy who are to be met in the best houses,—how should it have time or need for belief and emphasis?†   (source)
  • His brother, however, unwilling to part with him so soon, proposes to ride with him in a light open carriage to the place where he will bait for the night, and there remain with him until morning, a servant riding for so much of the journey on the thoroughbred old grey from Chesney Wold.†   (source)
  • You give away horses worth a thousand louis; you save the lives of ladies of high rank and beauty; under the name of Major Brack you run thoroughbreds ridden by tiny urchins not larger than marmots; then, when you have carried off the golden trophy of victory, instead of setting any value on it, you give it to the first handsome woman you think of!†   (source)
  • In their unconcerned looks was the calm of passions daily satiated, and through all their gentleness of manner pierced that peculiar brutality, the result of a command of half-easy things, in which force is exercised and vanity amused—the management of thoroughbred horses and the society of loose women.†   (source)
  • Prince Kuzovlev sat with a white face on his thoroughbred mare from the Grabovsky stud, while an English groom led her by the bridle.†   (source)
  • She said that it was only the thoroughbred gentleman who could wear the Court suit with advantage: it was only your men of ancient race whom the culotte courte became.†   (source)
  • Rostov could already see their faces and heard the command: "Charge!" shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to full speed.†   (source)
  • "This steering by the nose, Magnet, may do well enough for an Indian, but your thoroughbred knows the virtue of the needle," said the uncle, as he trudged at the heels of the light-stepping Tuscarora.†   (source)
  • Many young gentlemen canter up on thoroughbred hacks, spatter-dashed to the knee, and enter the house to drink cherry-brandy and pay their respects to the ladies, or, more modest and sportsmanlike, divest themselves of their mud-boots, exchange their hacks for their hunters, and warm their blood by a preliminary gallop round the lawn.†   (source)
  • Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the races with intense, though reserved, excitement….†   (source)
  • There is a nicety in getting a craft under her canvas that shows the thoroughbred mariner as much as anything else.†   (source)
  • Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides.†   (source)
  • "The squadwon can't pass," shouted Vaska Denisov, showing his white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let him.†   (source)
  • In the side-traces Pedasos, a thoroughbred, was added to the team; Akhilleus took him when he destroyed the city of Eetion.†   (source)
  • Now listen and let me list for you what just now in his quarters he proposed: seven new tripods, and ten bars of gold, then twenty shining caldrons, and twelve horses, thoroughbreds, that by their wind and legs have won him prizes: any man who owned what these have brought him would not lack resources, could not be pinched for precious gold—so many prizes have these horses carried home.†   (source)
  • Seven hew tripods and ten bars of gold, then twenty shining caldrons, and twelve horses, thoroughbreds, who by their wind and legs have won me prizes: any man who owned what these have brought me could not lack resources, could not be pinched for precious gold—so many prizes have these horses carried home.†   (source)
  • Arrah, bloody end to the paw he'd paw and Alf trying to keep him from tumbling off the bloody stool atop of the bloody old dog and he talking all kinds of drivel about training by kindness and thoroughbred dog and intelligent dog: give you the bloody pip.†   (source)
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