All 10 Uses of
mane
in
Lonesome Dove
- She gripped the horse's mane so tightly the horsehairs cut into her hands.†
Chpt 30-31 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- She was gripping the mane so tightly it took an act of will to turn her hands loose.†
Chpt 30-31
- She slipped from side to side and had to cling to the horse's mane to stay on.†
Chpt 48-49
- Despite her grip on the mane, she almost slid off several times.†
Chpt 48-49
- She barely had the strength to get back on the horse; she had to claw her way up using the mane.†
Chpt 48-49
- A hundred were stuck in Mouse's mane.†
Chpt 66-67
- Dozens of grasshoppers still clung to his shirt and to Mouse's mane, and he could hear them stirring in the grass, eating what little of it was left.†
Chpt 66-67
- The horse, with dried blood on the saddle and crusted in its mane, was waiting for them on the north bank of the Arkansas.†
Chpt 72-73
- Look at the blood on that horse's mane.†
Chpt 72-73
- When a horse died or had to be killed, Cholo always saved its mane and tail for his ropes.†
Chpt 75-76
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.