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  • With a final push he was through, trembling and sliding to the floor like a newborn foal.†   (source)
  • "Skeeter was a horse "A beautiful horse, a strawberry stallion he had raised from a foal.†   (source)
  • And so in ten days, after six long years of dissections, castrations, foalings, and shoving my arm up a cow's rear end more times than I care to remember, I, and my faithful shadow, Virginity, will leave Ithaca and join my father's veterinary practice in Norwich.†   (source)
  • The horse was foaled at Monterey Farm in Paris Kentucky.†   (source)
  • The young mare had dropped her foal early and the colt was too weak to stand up, which was why she was milking.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit had been a very late foal, born at the end of May 1933, but in January 1935, half a year short of his actual birthday, he was deemed a two-year-old, officially eligible to race.†   (source)
  • And there is one among them that might have been foaled in the morning of the world.†   (source)
  • Two foals stood together near the center, their tails swishing in unison.†   (source)
  • But his mare, Bronty, was about to foal and he'd had to leave her back in Montana.†   (source)
  • He used to arrive late to their accounting class with singular excuses—a cow's lack of appetite, the difficult birth of two foals.†   (source)
  • He was deeply moved and went to kiss her, but she backed away like a skittish foal.†   (source)
  • It made her think of long-legged foals running in wide pastures and wide-chested colts pounding the track at Churchill Downs.†   (source)
  • What I'll see is a picture of a mother horse with a foal; or I think of "Herbie, the Love Bug"; scenes from the movie Love Story; or the Beatles song "Love, love, all you need is love …"†   (source)
  • Gotta mare gonna drop its foal.†   (source)
  • He was like a newborn foal shadowing his mother, and like a mama horse and her foal they loved to be together.†   (source)
  • Our two horses and the foal were especially beloved.†   (source)
  • She thought she had property rights in the foal, Specklebottom's blood line being what it was.†   (source)
  • The foal, with a short, curly mane, and black as night, like a painted toy, ran after its mother kicking out its soft-boned legs.†   (source)
  • I was only a foal at the time.   (source)
    foal = a young horse
  • He knowed, I reckon, that maybe I weren't no horse foaling.†   (source)
  • Now we are come to the lands where you were foaled and every stone you know.†   (source)
  • And I was only a little foal when I left so I don't quite fully understand it myself.†   (source)
  • The two of them had come up with the idea that she should have Bronty's foal.†   (source)
  • He proudly introduced everyone to Seabiscuit's first foal, still wobbling on new legs.†   (source)
  • The foal grew up and Riddle named him War Admiral.†   (source)
  • "You going to see the foal?" they yelled.†   (source)
  • Tom says you gotta give them direction," he'd told her one day when they were with the foal.†   (source)
  • The foal delighted Pollard in particular; he was a redhead.†   (source)
  • She had learned a lot from watching Joe handle the younger horses, especially Bronty's foal.†   (source)
  • One of Fair Knightess's foals, Phantom Sea, became stakes-placed.†   (source)
  • The mares, with the colts and foals at their tails, bolted past and made good their escape.†   (source)
  • The owner issued Christmas card photos of Seabiscuit standing with his foals.†   (source)
  • You wait till Mr. Wolf takes one of his foals, oh boy.†   (source)
  • It was a family band of seven mares, five of them with foals.†   (source)
  • Whenever the foal lagged behind, the mare stopped and waited.†   (source)
  • He must never seed no mare foal.†   (source)
  • We do not attack foals.†   (source)
  • He would have to trade this here one for $900 if he could get it, and set out to secure the breeding one, her foal and the other one, if he found him.†   (source)
  • 'Ah, you heard what they said, 'said Hagrid dismissively, 'they wouldn't hurt foals — I mean, kids.†   (source)
  • 'Nevertheless,' said Magorian calmly, 'the slaughter of foals is a terrible crime — we do not touch the innocent.†   (source)
  • But now he was doing it again, with his son, and every detail of that land was clear in his mind: the well, the apple orchard, President Lincoln; her foal, Mary Todd; Ulysses S. Grant, their cow; General Lee, their hog.†   (source)
  • "I know he's for Aine, but a stallion like Alastar's meant to sire foals, and she's made for breeding.†   (source)
  • Now, a year later, Kenyon still mourned him, even though his father, taking pity on him, had promised him the pick of next spring's foals.†   (source)
  • Protruding from her, and covered in the cocoonish white birth sac, was one foreleg and shoulder of the foal.†   (source)
  • As Clara watched the wagon the girls had spotted drawing closer, she saw Cholo come riding in with two mares who were ready to foal.†   (source)
  • And Hwin told me what is known to all this company, that in Narnia there are beasts that talk, and how she herself was stolen from thence when she was a little foal.†   (source)
  • How's the foal?†   (source)
  • I, who called myself a war-horse and boasted of a hundred fights, to be beaten by a little human boy — a child, a mere foal, who had never held a sword nor had any good nurture or example in his life!†   (source)
  • I forget you're only a foal.†   (source)
  • Noah, the foaling groom at Claiborne, had summed it up about as well as anyone when he pulled Seabiscuit into the world: "Runty little thing."†   (source)
  • A regally bred mare named Brushup had foaled a near-black colt, a son of Man o' War, and they couldn't take their eyes off of him.†   (source)
  • "They are the finest foals I have ever seen," he said when the first crop came, "and I am not prejudiced when I say this."†   (source)
  • The foal, a little darker than his mother, had been lying in the corner and was now struggling to his feet.†   (source)
  • Curiously, Hard Tack appeared to be stamping his foals in a mold that was the polar opposite of his own.†   (source)
  • She had told her about Bronty's foal, about Frank and Diane and the boys, how the twins were a pain but Joe was alright.†   (source)
  • Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.†   (source)
  • With each spring the foals came.†   (source)
  • Joe was going to take him off to see Bronty's foal and then bring him back at just the right moment to find her on Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • He was standing on the far side of a great brown river and it was odd because he was younger, little more than a foal, but it was definitely Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • Dad thinks she'll foal by midweek.†   (source)
  • Can we go see Bronty's foal?†   (source)
  • The two stallions were standing nose to nose, while the mares and foals and the challenger's distant friends looked on.†   (source)
  • There were seven or eight of them and some colts and foals too, all running in circles and scaring each other more at every turn.†   (source)
  • And afterwards when all was over men returned and made a fire there and burned the carcase of the beast; but for Snowmane they dug a grave and set up a stone upon which was carved in the tongues of Gondor and the Mark: Faithful servant yet master's bane Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane.†   (source)
  • Charles wrote to his brother regularly--of the farm and the village, of sick cows and a foaling mare, of the added pasture and the lightning-struck barn, of Alice's choking death from her consumption and his father's move to a permanent paid position in the G.A.R. in Washington.†   (source)
  • Their painful embarrassment seemed to communicate itself even to the mare, the foal, the golden rays of the setting sun, and the gnats that swarmed around Elena Proklovna and settled on her face and neck.†   (source)
  • The foal would catch up with her in graceful, wavelike bounds, and then, walking up to the cart clumsily on its long legs set too close together, it would stretch its long neck and push its tiny head under the shaft to nurse.†   (source)
  • He was disappointed that the black foal had not been brought into the house, and when he was told sharply to be quiet he burst into tears, afraid that he might be sent back to the baby shop where, he believed, his parents had bought him.†   (source)
  • In front of the porch stood a roomy peasant sleigh with a sleek black foal harnessed to it, and walking up and down beside it was an equally sleek, plump stranger, who gave the horse an occasional slap and had a look at its fetlocks.†   (source)
  • The horse was a white mare that had recently foaled, and theit driver was a lop-eared old man with dishevelled white hair.†   (source)
  • And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it--it took a man to do that.†   (source)
  • They know that if they neglect to pray to Santiago for a few years, the foals do not come right.†   (source)
  • Thou art no colt of a girl with cropped head and the movement of a foal still wet from its mother.†   (source)
  • To Ellen, mares never foaled nor cows calved.†   (source)
  • Jody stared stupidly at the wet, panting foal.†   (source)
  • Well, as to why I'm not riding today, Nellie foaled early this morning.†   (source)
  • Or not expect perhaps, not even hope; not even dream since dreams don't come in pairs, and had I not come twelve miles drawn not by mortal mule but by some chimaera-foal of nightmare's very self?†   (source)
  • He was night's child and partner, a token of the wonder and the mystery, the other side of man's dark soul, his nighttime partner, and his nighttime foal, a symbol of those things that pass by darkness and that still remain, of something still and waiting in the night that comes and passes and that will abide, a symbol of man's evil innocence, and the token of his mystery, a projection of his own unfathomed quality, a friend, a 526 brother, and a mortal enemy, an unknown demon — our…†   (source)
  • Are is too many for one woman to foal.†   (source)
  • They had grown long pigtails and acquired the look of startled foals, which is the mark of adolescence.†   (source)
  • In those days you generally named your children in the same way as we name foxhounds and foals today.†   (source)
  • Referred to the embryo's troublesome tendency to anaemia, to the massive doses of hog's stomach extract and foetal foal's liver with which, in consequence, it had to be supplied.†   (source)
  • And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age?†   (source)
  • It was before daylight and he was expecting his mare to foal to the black stallion, so when he left the house before day that morning Judith thought he was going to the stable, who knew what and how much about her father and Wash's granddaughter nobody knew, how much she could not have helped but know from what Clytie must have known (may have or may not have told her, whether or no) since everybody else white or black in the neighborhood knew who had ever seen the girl pass in the…†   (source)
  • So that Sunday morning came and the demon up and away before dawn, Judith thinking she knew why since that morning the black stallion which be rode to Virginia and led back had a son born on his wife Penelope, only it was not that foal which the demon had got up early to look at and it was almost a week before they caught, found, the old negress, the midwife who was squatting beside the quilt pallet that dawn while Jones sat on the porch where the rusty scythe had leaned for two years,…†   (source)
  • So it was not until he failed to return at dinner time that she went or sent Clyde to the stable and found that the mare had foaled in the night but that her father was not there.†   (source)
  • It could never be mentioned that the mare was in foal.†   (source)
  • "The cows will all cast their calves, brother," said Mrs. Waule, in a tone of deep melancholy, "if the railway comes across the Near Close; and I shouldn't wonder at the mare too, if she was in foal.†   (source)
  • Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the prairies, which this instant they may be trampling into dust.†   (source)
  • The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible, when the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward to its knees.†   (source)
  • These stood quietly, stretching out their heads and flowing manes, while their foals rested in their shadow, or now and then came and sucked them.†   (source)
  • All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.†   (source)
  • About this time, a beautiful little foal, a son of the onager, was added to our stud, and as he promised to grow up strong and tractable, we soon saw how useful he would be.†   (source)
  • And yet it irks me, the poor dappled foals,— Being native burghers of this desert city,— Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gored.†   (source)
  • Eight as good mares as ever travelled in gears, besides a foal that is worth thirty of the brightest Mexicans that bear the face of the King of Spain.†   (source)
  • Know thou, then, each tablet records the name of a foal of the pure blood born to my fathers through the hundreds of years passed; and also the names of sire and dam.†   (source)
  • There were acquaintances at other gates who had to move aside and let them pass: at the gate of the Home Close there was half the dairy of cows standing one behind the other, extremely slow to understand that their large bodies might be in the way; at the far gate there was the mare holding her head over the bars, and beside her the liver-coloured foal with its head towards its mother's flank, apparently still much embarrassed by its own straddling existence.†   (source)
  • Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey—why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness—why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?†   (source)
  • And my father will speak to him, and tell him, that the master, who has fed him since he was foaled, has now need of him.†   (source)
  • "Poor Miriam!" murmured the stranger; "thy foal was foreordained to become a prey to ravenous beasts!"†   (source)
  • So soon as Cora and Alice were seated, the scout, without regarding the element, directed Heyward to support one side of the frail vessel, and posting himself at the other, they bore it up against the stream, followed by the dejected owner of the dead foal.†   (source)
  • "Hold!" exclaimed the proprietor of the condemned animal, aloud, without regard to the whispering tones used by the others; "spare the foal of Miriam! it is the comely offspring of a faithful dam, and would willingly injure naught."†   (source)
  • "I should like to look at the creature; if it is a true Iroquois I can tell him by his knavish look, and by his paint," said the scout; stepping past the charger of Heyward, and entering the path behind the mare of the singing master, whose foal had taken advantage of the halt to exact the maternal contribution.†   (source)
  • The simple admirer of the war-horse instantly fell back to a low, gaunt, switch-tailed mare, that was unconsciously gleaning the faded herbage of the camp nigh by; where, leaning with one elbow on the blanket that concealed an apology for a saddle, he became a spectator of the departure, while a foal was quietly making its morning repast, on the opposite side of the same animal.†   (source)
  • For the runner-up he offered a six-year-old unbroken mare, big with a mule foal.†   (source)
  • Known to the world as foals of great Podarge!†   (source)
  • …whom I have heard; and I came to hear of him in this way:--I came across a man who has spent a world of money on the Sophists, Callias, the son of Hipponicus, and knowing that he had sons, I asked him: 'Callias,' I said, 'if your two sons were foals or calves, there would be no difficulty in finding some one to put over them; we should hire a trainer of horses, or a farmer probably, who would improve and perfect them in their own proper virtue and excellence; but as they are human…†   (source)
  • Ankhises, marshal of Troy, stole their great stock without Laomedon's knowledge, putting fillies to breed with them, and from these half a dozen foals were bred for Ankhises at his manor, four to be reared in his own stalls; but two he gave Aineias as a battle team.†   (source)
  • Prizes out of the plain we drove together in a great host: of cows there were fifty herds, as many flocks of sheep and droves of swine and roaming herds of goats: and chestnut horses— one hundred and fifty tawny horses, mares every one, many with suckling foals.†   (source)
  • Finally, he invited me to come to the stable next day and see a newborn foal.†   (source)
  • "Turn the foal, of course," he said patiently.†   (source)
  • The foal, a late one, was evidently presenting side-on or backward.†   (source)
  • From dressing wounds and healing the sick to delivering foals.†   (source)
  • Her hindquarters flexed sharply and the foal slid smoothly onto the clean hay in a slither of knobbly legs and big ears.†   (source)
  • Aye, Ellen MacKenzie once saw me wi' my sark off, birthin' a foal, and told me it looked like the good Lord had put the wrong head to my body—should have had a bag of milk-pudding on my shoulders, instead of a face from the altar-piece."†   (source)
  • Following the anxious, often contradictory instructions of my guides as best I could, I alternately pulled and pushed, easing the unwieldy mass of the foal around, bringing one foot forward, pushing another back, sweating and groaning along with the mare.†   (source)
  • The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf, And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side, And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.†   (source)
  • The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest.†   (source)
  • Men would become as fond of their wives, during the time of their pregnancy, as they are now of their mares in foal, their cows in calf, or sow when they are ready to farrow; nor offer to beat or kick them (as is too frequent a practice) for fear of a miscarriage.†   (source)
  • Night, Erebus, and Chaos she proclaims, And threefold Hecate, with her hundred names, And three Dianas: next, she sprinkles round With feign'd Avernian drops the hallow'd ground; Culls hoary simples, found by Phoebe's light, With brazen sickles reap'd at noon of night; Then mixes baleful juices in the bowl, And cuts the forehead of a newborn foal, Robbing the mother's love.†   (source)
  • 32:13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 32:14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.†   (source)
  • "Let us go, Sancho, my son," said Don Quixote, "and in guerdon of this news, as unexpected as it is good, I bestow upon thee the best spoil I shall win in the first adventure I may have; or if that does not satisfy thee, I promise thee the foals I shall have this year from my three mares that thou knowest are in foal on our village common."†   (source)
  • The fiend (quoth he) you fetch body and bones, As farforthly* as ever ye were foal'd, *sure So muche woe as I have with you tholed.†   (source)
  • I jest to Oberon, and make him smile, When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal; And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab; And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob, And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.†   (source)
  • "I'll take the foals," said Sancho; "for it is not quite certain that the spoils of the first adventure will be good ones."†   (source)
  • He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt, and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me; and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself.†   (source)
  • "Let us go, Sancho, my son," said Don Quixote, "and in guerdon of this news, as unexpected as it is good, I bestow upon thee the best spoil I shall win in the first adventure I may have; or if that does not satisfy thee, I promise thee the foals I shall have this year from my three mares that thou knowest are in foal on our village common."†   (source)
  • But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.†   (source)
  • They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.†   (source)
  • …THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Death, Don Quixote and his squire passed under some tall shady trees, and Don Quixote at Sancho's persuasion ate a little from the store carried by Dapple, and over their supper Sancho said to his master, "Senor, what a fool I should have looked if I had chosen for my reward the spoils of the first adventure your worship achieved, instead of the foals of the three mares.†   (source)
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