Horses in sentence

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The breeze, which they had felt while driving, died down when they stopped; and horseflies settled on the sweating horses, which angrily tried to brush them off.

Dolly was dazzled by the elegant equipage of a kind she had never seen, by the beautiful horses and the elegant, brilliant persons about her.

'Ah, they've already arrived,' said Anna, looking at the horses that were being led away from the front door.

CHAPTER XXI'NO, I THINK THE PRINCESS DARYA ALEXANDROVNA IS TIRED and horses do not interest her,' said Vronsky to Anna, who was suggesting that they should go to the stud farm where Sviyazhsky wanted to look at a new stallion.

'I don't understand anything about horses, and shall be very pleased to,' answered Dolly, taken rather by surprise.

One day there are races and his horses are running; he goes.

The horses had eaten every grain before cock-crow!

When anyone comes to our place, no fear; we give their horses as much as they'll eat.''A stingy gentleman...' confirmed the clerk.

'Well, and did you like their horses?' asked Dolly.

'Krasavchik' (one of the pair of carriage horses brought from the country) 'has been re-shod but still goes lame,' said he.'What are your orders?'On first coming to Moscow Levin had taken an interest in the horses they brought from the country.

He wanted to arrange the matter as well and as cheaply as possible; but it turned out that their own horses cost them more than hired ones would have done, and they hired horses as well.

Levin no longer thought it strange, as he had done when he first came to Moscow, that to go from the Vozdvizhenka Street to Sivtsev-Vrazhek it was necessary to harness a pair of strong horses to a heavy carriage to drive through the snowy slush a quarter of a verst, to keep the carriage waiting there for four hours, and to pay five roubles for it.

'Hire a pair of horses, to be harnessed to our carriage.'

Then they talked about horses, about that day's races, and how gallantly Vronsky's Atlasny had won the first prize.

If only I had the luck at cards that he has with horses!...

You are not sending off the horses yet?''No, they will follow us.

'We drove with horses, for there was then no railway.

Three boys running about playing at horses.

These horses, this carriage, how horrid it is of me to be in this carriage – they are all his, but I shall not see them any more.'

She gave the order to harness another pair of horses, and busied herself packing her handbag with things necessary for a few days.

Below, in the bottom gallery, were formed the trains which the horses drew to the shaft.

Now the subterranean life rumbled around them with a continual passing of captains, the come and go of the trains drawn by trotting horses.

Twenty-five metres in length and nearly four high, cut in the rock and vaulted with bricks, it could contain twenty horses.

There were horses there, at rest, who turned their heads, with their large infantine eyes, then went back to their hay, without haste, like fat well-kept workers, loved by everybody.

On Monday, when she was overtired with her Sunday's spree, she gave herself a violent blow on the nose, and left her cutting under the pretence of seeking water, to bury herself here with the horses in the warm litter.

For the rest, this caretaker cared for nothing: he went to look after his horses at the Voreux, and never troubled himself about the ruins of Réquillart, of which the shaft only was preserved, in order to serve as a chimney for a fire which ventilated the neighbouring pit.

The dancing still went on, and the end of a quadrille drowned the ball-room in red dust; the walls cracked, a cornet produced shrill whistling sounds like a locomotive in distress; and when the dancers stopped they were smoking like horses.

Yes, the cook in a carriage with two horses, going to Marchiennes to get fish, sure enough!"

The grooms sent down fodder for the horses, and the captains worked alone at the bottom, having become labourers again, watching over the damages that took place in the passages as soon as they ceased to be repaired; then, after nine o'clock the rest of the service was carried on by the ladders.

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