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  • ABIGAIL: I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near!†   (source)
  • I wouldn't be surprised because there's no end to the bulls climbing on cows, rams on sheep, stallions on mares, and they all have such big things it makes me break out in a sweat to look at them and I feel sorry for all the female creatures in the world who have to suffer like that though I wouldn't mind being a bull myself because they can do what they like and it's never a sin for an animal.†   (source)
  • A man with muscular arms stood at the end, brushing a white stallion.†   (source)
  • I was born in 1975, before that wave even started to crest, and I have to say the Luttrell family was riding high, It was nothing for my dad to breed a good-looking horse from a $5,000 stallion and sell the yearling for $40,000.†   (source)
  • Said he was giving her to drink what stallions got when they broke a leg and no gunpowder could be spared, and had it not been for schoolteacher's new rules, he would have told her so.†   (source)
  • When I was in the fourth grade, I started going upstairs to the junior high school library to check out the Black Stallion series.†   (source)
  • The sewing machine was a gleaming, glossy black that reminded her of the landowner's horse back in Italy; sewing, Bella felt like she was holding on to the reins of a wild stallion.†   (source)
  • War could have been the stallion that he rode, part of, if not all, the way to the Legislative Assembly, whereas victory left him no better off than when he started out.†   (source)
  • Black Stallion's better, though."†   (source)
  • She heard him on their wedding night, while she lay prostrate with seasickness in the stateroom on the ship that was carrying them to France, and the sound of his stallion's stream seemed so potent, so replete with authority, that it increased her terror of the devastation to come.†   (source)
  • It was like we were living with a wild stallion—and trying to teach it to sip tea from fine porcelain.†   (source)
  • But if he saw or heard something he didn't like, even if he had said it himself, the color would rise in his face and his nostrils flare like a spirited stallion's.†   (source)
  • The stallion, perhaps, but not when harnessed in tandem with a she-ox.†   (source)
  • You reek like a stallion.†   (source)
  • "Skeeter was a horse "A beautiful horse, a strawberry stallion he had raised from a foal.†   (source)
  • He swung astride a plum-dusk stallion.†   (source)
  • Marcus jerks his head around, shocked into stillness as a foam-coated stallion gallops through the doors of the stadium.†   (source)
  • He said, "I can have anybody I want in my group"—implying that he didn't want her because she wasn't good enough—and he mentioned the great Thoroughbred stallion Secretariat.†   (source)
  • The stallion I have bought is a half brother out of the same mare.†   (source)
  • THE FOURTEENTH DAY THURSDAY, 16 DECEMBER A Super Stallion They were traveling at one hundred fifty knots, two thousand feet over the darkened sea.†   (source)
  • No stallions near this mare's pasture.†   (source)
  • He was a big man, riding a bay stallion.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit was reasonably well-bred, giving him additional value as a stallion.†   (source)
  • "Carrying on in that way, galloping like a stallion about to meet the gelder's knife!†   (source)
  • The stall was the former home of a pair of stallions and boy oh boy did they leave their odor behind!†   (source)
  • It was pawing and stomping and shying to one side, as if it wanted no part of the place; a beautiful thing it was, though, a splendid animal-a stallion, and pure white.†   (source)
  • You rode into the room on your white stallion and saved me from certain death at the hands of a Dark Caster?†   (source)
  • Conversation stopped, and the patients on the stretchers and the throng around the door held their breaths, till Hema raised up and said, "Galloping like a stallion!"†   (source)
  • It gave Jace a certain satisfaction to saddle the stallion up and ride him out of the city.†   (source)
  • 3 WOREF SWUNG his leg over the stallion and dropped to the sand.†   (source)
  • High fences and armed "U.S. Marine" guards were stationed at the gates and patrolled the grounds fronting the concrete slips that held enormous mock-ups of the stallions of America's nuclear undersea fleet.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Mompellion had arrived here on this horse, the common talk had been that such a tine stallion was no fit steed for a priest.†   (source)
  • He was a stallion by the name of Cruiser, once the fastest racehorse in the land.†   (source)
  • Ajax was there, however, sitting astride a heavy bay stallion and berating several boys who had cracked a water barrel while unloading a supply cart.†   (source)
  • The stallion's mad, hunh.†   (source)
  • And Bree would tell of forced marches and the fording of swift rivers, of charges and of fierce fights between cavalry and cavalry when the war horses fought as well as the men, being all fierce stallions, trained to bite and kick, and to rear at the right moment so that the horse's weight as well as the rider's would come down on a enemy's crest in the stroke of sword or battleaxe.†   (source)
  • Once they told him, Howu, a stallion does not feed on the grass beneath him: he replied, true, but surely he can roll on it!†   (source)
  • Mr. Toot Withers took his place, riding a high-stepping white stallion, and waving a sword in one hand and a big Confederate flag in the other.†   (source)
  • How difficult had it been to find herself saddled with a daughter who rode emotions like a wild stallion?†   (source)
  • In another instance, a massive black stallion lashed to a wooden fence "reared back, pulling the rail out of the fence and dragging it after him full gallop down the road crowded with troops, mowing them down like the scythe of a war chariot."†   (source)
  • It was reassuring just to look at him, riding slowly forward into the sunlight on the black Irish stallion: Dutch Longstreet, old Pete.†   (source)
  • He was on a prancing stallion at the head of the meadow, leading the way down the blood-slick hill.†   (source)
  • He imagined it clearly: museums and golden statues, hansoms drawn by white stallions in braid, white-coated waiters serving fancy food, flowers everywhere, and a clean soft bed.†   (source)
  • When we came up even with the corral, a black stallion ran long the fence whinnying and bobbing his head.†   (source)
  • Sophie had seen the stallion before, though never in such full poetic flight.†   (source)
  • 22 rifle, telling a sophisticated and ribald story of how Specklebottom, her stallion, had leaped a five-bar corral gate and visited a mare in the next county.†   (source)
  • "Then climb back upon your blue stallion and ride away," said Yama, "if you will not fight."†   (source)
  • One was a fat boy in black trousers and a red sweat shirt with a silver stallion embossed on the front of it.†   (source)
  • The schoolgirl, after one paralyzed moment, rose and got off through the corridor in a dream; the book she closed was seen to be Black Stallion of the Downs.†   (source)
  • "Easy now, easy now, easy now, Mr. Reich," they said with the hissing noise with which hostlers soothe savage stallions.†   (source)
  • From the waist down, he was a white stallion.†   (source)
  • From the waist down, he's a white stallion.†   (source)
  • He'd ride by the camp on his gray stallion.†   (source)
  • My gentle Palomino has the iron will of a stallion.†   (source)
  • The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl!†   (source)
  • One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me.†   (source)
  • Sometimes human, sometimes stallions, depending on how chaotic they are.†   (source)
  • The stallion moved restlessly; he calmed it with a few strokes of his fingers.†   (source)
  • Jhogo and Aggo were digging a firepit to burn the dead stallion.†   (source)
  • Haberth nodded and silently tied the stallion to a stall.†   (source)
  • Robb galloped out to meet her, with Grey Wind racing beside his stallion.†   (source)
  • One big stallion looked at me and whinnied, columns of red flame billowing out his nostrils.†   (source)
  • The stallion was screaming and pawing the ground, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • "The stallion who mounts the world," Drogo whispered hoarsely.†   (source)
  • He understood about mating; he had seen dogs in the yard, and watched a stallion mount a mare.†   (source)
  • What shall he be called, the stallion who mounts the world?†   (source)
  • One stallion reared, screaming, his rider cursing and hanging on desperately.†   (source)
  • The prince is riding, and he shall be the stallion who mounts the world.†   (source)
  • The mud muffled the hooves of the blood bay stallion.†   (source)
  • Drogo spurred his stallion, and set off down the godsway beneath the moon and stars.†   (source)
  • In your womb rides the stallion who mounts the world.†   (source)
  • Jhogo led the great red stallion into the tent.†   (source)
  • Khal Drogo led them on his great red stallion, with Daenerys beside him on her silver.†   (source)
  • He is the father of the stallion who mounts the world.†   (source)
  • "The stallion that mounts the world," she heard, bellowed in a thousand voices.†   (source)
  • Ser Jaime ripped his longsword from its sheath and urged his stallion forward.†   (source)
  • And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor.†   (source)
  • When they let the stallion fall, the bath was a dark red, and nothing showed of Drogo but his face.†   (source)
  • The stallion who mounts the world has no need of iron chairs.†   (source)
  • "It is known," agreed Jhogo, astride the tall grey stallion that Drogo had given him.†   (source)
  • By then his stallion was back on its feet as well.†   (source)
  • "He is Drogo's son, and the crones say he will be the stallion who mounts the world.†   (source)
  • Ser Gregor's huge stallion trumpeted as he caught her scent.†   (source)
  • The stallion's blood had dried on her hands and around her mouth.†   (source)
  • And to Rhaego son of Drogo, the stallion who will mount the world, to him I also pledge a gift.†   (source)
  • The stallion is the khal of khals promised in ancient prophecy, child.†   (source)
  • The stallion who mounts the world will burn no cities now.†   (source)
  • Khal Drogo spoke no word to her, but drove his stallion at a hard trot through the gathering dusk.†   (source)
  • The stallion went to its knees, screaming as it died.†   (source)
  • "It was prophesied that the stallion will ride to the ends of the earth," she said.†   (source)
  • She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame.†   (source)
  • "The red stallion was ever a welcome sight in River-run," she said to the trio by the fire.†   (source)
  • It is my son inside her, the stallion who mounts the world, filling her with his fire.†   (source)
  • Gregor has always favored huge, ill-tempered stallions with more spirit than sense.†   (source)
  • The stallions call, this place is ashes.†   (source)
  • Thomas flew over the hill's crest, leaned back, and pulled the stallion to a stamping halt.†   (source)
  • The stallion was brushed, reshod, and saddled, his saddlebags bulging with goods.†   (source)
  • A taste so powerful and necessary that stallions galloped miles and days for it.†   (source)
  • "Is this all of them?" the rider asked from atop a chestnut stallion.†   (source)
  • The stallion gave the word horsepower a new meaning.†   (source)
  • Ser Hobber trotted in from the east, riding a black stallion caparisoned in burgundy and blue.†   (source)
  • A tan stallion appeared on deck with Hazel Levesque on his back.†   (source)
  • Like the fastest stallions, the venti are our children!†   (source)
  • That afternoon, she'd taken out a tan roan stallion with a gorgeous black mane.†   (source)
  • "Two stallions in a paddock," answered Walters.†   (source)
  • Five minutes later they pulled up to a Sea Stallion whose engines were already screaming.†   (source)
  • The winged stallion came in for a landing.†   (source)
  • "Lord Pegasus," Reyna said, resting her hand on the stallion's neck, "we need a safe place to land."†   (source)
  • He sat and turned his stallion so that its side faced the valley.†   (source)
  • Instantly the stallion burst forth, rearing in triumph.†   (source)
  • His lordship himself rode Blood, a red stallion with a temper to match his own.†   (source)
  • Thomas sat on his stallion and studied the canyon floor.†   (source)
  • "Iona Sheehan, and I'm probably as inconvenient to you as this stallion.†   (source)
  • The stallion whinnied again, and, still watching July, she waved at the horse.†   (source)
  • "We're going to that castle over there, Stanley," I told the stallion.†   (source)
  • The stallion's sides heaved from the speed of his journey.†   (source)
  • Only one thing remained--the guilt of the man on the prancing stallion.†   (source)
  • He and Marcela spent much of their time at the stallion barn, petting Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • His big red stallion wore crinet and chamfron.†   (source)
  • He is as a stallion amongst geldings compared to you.†   (source)
  • They found her riding her stallion through the gray streets, inspecting the damage to the city.†   (source)
  • He came out of the stall and shut the door and they stood looking at the stallion.†   (source)
  • The passage is clogged with droppings from the King's stallion; he will arrive all stained in dung.†   (source)
  • The moment he moved, as he must have foreseen, the stallion reared up before him and screamed.†   (source)
  • When we break you, I will breed you to my stallion.†   (source)
  • His palfrey was a blood bay, his destrier a magnificent grey stallion.†   (source)
  • A black stallion's steel hoof kicked him.†   (source)
  • And there was no stallion, it was more like a dog.†   (source)
  • The Dornish leader forked a stallion black as sin with a mane and tail the color of fire.†   (source)
  • The groom handed Eragon the reins to the stallion, then bowed and withdrew.†   (source)
  • Maybe that strange stallion in the hills was meant for her.†   (source)
  • You may have seen a big black stallion in our stables.†   (source)
  • The bay stallion waded a few steps into the pool and drank deeply.†   (source)
  • He sat a sorrel stallion, his standard-bearer a dapple grey.†   (source)
  • He led Blood off toward the stables, hopping aside when the stallion tried to kick him.†   (source)
  • Two or three paces would have taken him out of the stallion's reach and clear of all danger.†   (source)
  • Hazel patted Arion's flank, as the stallion was acting skittish.†   (source)
  • Fin found this stallion in Donegal, and had him sent, as Fin himself 's still rambling.†   (source)
  • Harrier 2–0 Lieutenant Parker was flying the Harrier that would escort the Super Stallion.†   (source)
  • They picketed the stallion on a strip of grass.†   (source)
  • You aim to breed this stallion to your mares.†   (source)
  • He calmed his stamping stallion and reached for the bomb in his saddlebag.†   (source)
  • "Did you ever see two stallions fight?" he would later ask.†   (source)
  • She went over and rubbed the stallion's neck for ten minutes before going back to the house.†   (source)
  • And he was strong as a god, randy as a stallion, mad as a hatter.†   (source)
  • The Sea Stallion did not attempt to land, though the pilot was tempted.†   (source)
  • Tris Botley galloped up beside her on a tall roan stallion.†   (source)
  • The stallion when it saw him coming began to trot.†   (source)
  • In the corner cage, the stallion Anion whinnied angrily.†   (source)
  • Chiron stood in full white stallion mode, his bow drawn.†   (source)
  • Through the swaying draperies, Dany caught glimpses of him astride his grey stallion.†   (source)
  • He swung into his saddle and kicked the stallion into a gallop.†   (source)
  • Eragon did, and the stallion snorted, flaring his nostrils.†   (source)
  • "Whoa, steady, boy," he whispered, petting Snowfire as the stallion tossed his head.†   (source)
  • A young stallion, a bay, was making a bid for the mares.†   (source)
  • She had seen the stallion, had heard it kicking, but she had not understood.†   (source)
  • He once rode a mare in heat against a foe mounted on a bad-tempered stallion.†   (source)
  • The King's Crown was at the zenith, and he could see the Stallion rearing, and there the Swan.†   (source)
  • The band stallion Tom had never seen before.†   (source)
  • He sat the sweating stallion like a highwayman under her gaze.†   (source)
  • He shall be the stallion that mounts the world.†   (source)
  • He had to wrestle his stallion to keep his head to the east.†   (source)
  • The Sea Stallion, he noted, was not cruising.†   (source)
  • With a slight nudge of his heel, his stallion walked away, and then trotted.†   (source)
  • Beside him rode Ser Osfryd, mounted on a stallion as golden as his cloak.†   (source)
  • She had seen the act of love before; the Dothraki mated as openly as their mares and stallions.†   (source)
  • Ser Loras rode a tall white stallion in silver mail, and fought with a long-handled axe.†   (source)
  • The Super Stallion At this moment the transmission casing fractured.†   (source)
  • Will I ride through the night sky forever on a stallion made of flame?†   (source)
  • The white stallion reared and dropped back around.†   (source)
  • Thus thwarted, the stallion turned his wrath on Tom.†   (source)
  • The stallion was no plow horse, that was plain at a glance.†   (source)
  • He spun the stallion and kicked it into a full gallop.†   (source)
  • The rotor's momentum twisted the Stallion savagely around, and it dropped rapidly.†   (source)
  • Tyrion unsheathed his axe, wheeled the stallion around, and trotted toward the sally port.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly both stallions exploded, tossing their heads and squealing.†   (source)
  • The black stallion had taken only two steps when something struck her broadside.†   (source)
  • As he watched, the Super Stallion's humpbacked engine cluster blew apart in a shower of sparks.†   (source)
  • The stallion plunged down a narrow path, over the canyon's lip.†   (source)
  • The stallion bolted down the hill with William in fast pursuit.†   (source)
  • He spurred his horse and the stallion galloped into the canyon.†   (source)
  • His stallion stepped nervously under him.†   (source)
  • The stallion throwed him, but he got back on.†   (source)
  • The stallion galloped alone; there was not a human soul in sight.†   (source)
  • Soon as the minute was up a young boy called Gable got on the stallion.†   (source)
  • The stallion throwed him again and he got back on him again.†   (source)
  • When they heard the stallion was loose they saddled their horses and went after him.†   (source)
  • He kept getting back on till the stallion couldn't throw him no more.†   (source)
  • Early the next morning they came back with the stallion and with Joe tied to his own horse.†   (source)
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