All 13 Uses
stallion
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All the Pretty Horses
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- The stallion I have bought is a half brother out of the same mare.†
Chpt 2 *
- You aim to breed this stallion to your mares.†
Chpt 2
- He came out of the stall and shut the door and they stood looking at the stallion.†
Chpt 2
- They stabled the stallion away from the mares in a barn up at the gerente's and as the mares came into season he and Antonio bred them.†
Chpt 2
- They bred mares almost daily for three weeks and sometimes twice daily and Antonio regarded the stallion with great reverence and great love and he called him caballo padre and like John Grady he would talk to the horse and often make promises to him and he never lied to the horse.†
Chpt 2
- He'd go to the kitchen in the dark for his coffee and saddle the horse at daybreak with only the little desert doves waking in the orchard and the air still fresh and cool and he and the stallion would come sideways out of the stable with the animal prancing and pounding the ground and arching its neck.†
Chpt 2
- By now he'd taken to riding the stallion bareback, kicking off his boots and swinging up while Antonio still stood holding the trembling mare by the twitch, the mare standing with her legs spread and her head down and the breath rifling in and out of her.†
Chpt 2
- He sat the sweating stallion like a highwayman under her gaze.†
Chpt 2
- He bent and made a stirrup of his laced fingers and she put her boot into his hands and he lifted her and she swung up onto the stallion's back and looked down at him and then booted the horse forward and went loping out up the track along the edge of the lake and was lost to view.†
Chpt 2
- Leading the horses by hand out through the gate into the road and mounting up and riding the horses side by side up the cienaga road with the moon in the west and some dogs barking over toward the shearing-sheds and the greyhounds answering back from their pens and him closing the gate and turning and holding his cupped hands for her to step into and lifting her onto the black horse's naked back and then untying the stallion from the gate and stepping once onto the gateslat and mounting up all in one motion and turning the horse and them riding side by side up the cienaga road with the moon in the west like a moon of white linen hung from wires and some dogs barking.†
Chpt 2
- They'd be gone sometimes till near daybreak and he'd put the stallion up and go to the house for his breakfast and an hour later meet Antonio back at the stable and walk up past the gerente's house to the trap where the mares stood waiting.†
Chpt 2
- The stallion when it saw him coming began to trot.†
Chpt 4
- He rode among the horses on the mesa and he walked them up out of the swales and cedar brakes where they'd gone to hide and he trotted the stallion along the grassy rims for the wind to cool him.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(stallion) a male horse that has not been castrated (gelded) -- especially one used for breeding purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)