All 8 Uses of
stallion
in
Gone with the Wind
- Just before we got home that new stallion Ma got in Kentucky last month was brought in, and the place was in a stew.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- And just before we got home, he'd about kicked the stable down and half-killed Strawberry, Ma's old stallion.†
Chpt 1.1
- No, a fine little stallion with legs two yards long.†
Chpt 1.5
- Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.†
Chpt 1.6
- He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.†
Chpt 2.12
- Sometimes, in the days of backbreaking work, in the desperate struggle for food and the never-ceasing care of the three sick girls, Scarlett found herself straining her ears for familiar sounds—the shrill laughter of the pickaninnies in the quarters, the creaking of wagons home from the fields, the thunder of Gerald's stallion tearing across the pasture, the crunching of carriage wheels on the drive and the gay voices of neighbors dropping in for an afternoon of gossip.†
Chpt 3.25
- Oh, those fine sleek mules which used to kick up their heels in the pasture across the road, and the handsome carriage horses, her little mare, the girls' ponies and Gerald's big stallion racing about and tearing up the turf— Oh, for one of them, even the balkiest mule!†
Chpt 3.26
- The mourners were seething with indignation and downcast with sorrow, especially three of them—old man McRae, who had been Gerald's crony since he came to the up-country from Savannah so many years before, Grandma Fontaine who loved him because he was Ellen's husband, and Mrs. Tarleton who had been closer to him than to any of her neighbors because, as she often said, he was the only man in the County who knew a stallion from a gelding.†
Chpt 4.40
Definition:
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(stallion) a male horse that has not been castrated (gelded) -- especially one used for breeding purposes