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Example sentences for "four horses"

  • In driving two as a pair or tandem, or four horses, this matter of a comfortable and secure seat is important, and will repay considerable attention.

  • My carriage was drawn by four horses, for Moscow is a vast city composed of four distinct towns, and many of the streets are rough and ill-paved.

  • When we heard the trot of four horses we rose and put on our clothes in a twinkling.

  • For the team of four horses ought not to move on the surface of the relief, but to appear as if it came out of it in a half-turn.

  • The chariot races, which were held in the hippodrome; the cars were light and were drawn by four horses.

  • He arrived in a chariot drawn by four horses, clothed in purple, escorted by all the people.

  • Tom went first, with the principal members of the Corporation, in a break drawn by four horses, and I followed with the children in other carriages.

  • Defn: A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

  • Defn: A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.

  • A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.

  • Her journeys to and from the metropolis she performed in a chariot drawn by four horses, with servants wearing splendid liveries.

  • On that day, as her Royal Highness was proceeding to Norbury Park, to visit Mr. Locke, in a barouche drawn by four horses, the carriage was upset at Leatherhead.

  • Saynisch, who returned to Bethlehem, we crossed the Ohio, near the town, in a well contrived ferry, the wheels of which were moved by four horses.

  • We noticed vehicles of various descriptions, with four or two wheels, often with an awning of linen, or leather, open at the sides, and drawn by two or four horses.

  • They are sent to all the neighbouring country, in large wagons drawn by four horses.

  • The family carriage was generally drawn by four horses, when rides were taken in the country for exercise, with "Mrs. Washington and the children.

  • The rent of Morris's house was at last fixed at three thousand dollars a year; and on the twenty-second of November Washington set out for Philadelphia, accompanied by his family, in a chariot drawn by four horses.

  • He was condemned to be burned with red-hot pincers, to be torn asunder by four horses, and to be quartered.

  • Montecuccoli, Count of, accused of having poisoned the dauphin, Francis, and drawn asunder by four horses, i.

  • I was driving rather fast over a nice level length of road, and was overtaking a waggon drawn by three or four horses.

  • More like a man playing the harp than driving four horses, and, moreover, it is wanted to the off-side reins at the same time.

  • The chariots were generally drawn by two or four horses.

  • The emperor appears in a triumphal car drawn by four horses,--Victory crowning him with a laurel.

  • When he returned to his own country, the people came out in a body to meet him, and conducted him into the city, adorned with all the marks of his victory, and riding upon a chariot drawn by four horses.

  • Soon afterwards, a packet was introduced on the river, worked by four horses, as in a thrashing machine; the animals walking in a path 18 feet in diameter.

  • Painted cloths were hung about it, and it was drawn by four horses, “having head stalls of brode inkle with knoppes and tassels.

  • The company was evidently unable to afford the cost of four horses in 1534; only one was hired, and four men attended on the pageant with “Lewers.

  • The coach was drawn by four horses, with red and white plumes of feathers, and the covering of the body and of the horses was gold brocade with knotted red silk fringe.


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