10 uses
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Definition
long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
- She gripped the horse's mane so tightly the horsehairs cut into her hands.Chapters 30-31 (33% in)
- She was gripping the mane so tightly it took an act of will to turn her hands loose.Chapters 30-31 (35% in)
- She slipped from side to side and had to cling to the horse's mane to stay on.Chapters 48-49 (83% in)
- Despite her grip on the mane, she almost slid off several times.Chapters 48-49 (84% in)
- She barely had the strength to get back on the horse; she had to claw her way up using the mane.Chapters 48-49 (86% in)
- A hundred were stuck in Mouse's mane.Chapters 66-67 (74% in)
- 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.Chapters 66-67 (81% in)
- The horse, with dried blood on the saddle and crusted in its mane, was waiting for them on the north bank of the Arkansas.Chapters 72-73 (0% in)
- "Look at the blood on that horse's mane.Chapters 72-73 (8% in)
- When a horse died or had to be killed, Cholo always saved its mane and tail for his ropes.Chapters 75-76 (41% in)
There are no more uses of "mane" in Lonesome Dove.
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