`` The road's washed badly '', said Dill, `` but there's a trail you can get over with a horse.

Anatomically, the horse lung appears to be remarkably like that of man, insofar as this can be ascertained from comparison of our findings in the horse with those of others ( Birnbaum, '54 ) in the human being.

They can hire a horse and go ski-joring behind him, or move out to Oak Hill, where there's a lift.

Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.

Another element of horse mounted warfare is the psychological impact a mounted soldier can inflict on an opponent.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

He spends the night holding vigil over his armor, where he becomes involved in a fight with muleteers who try to remove his armor from the horse trough so that they can water their mules.

Some horseshoers will rasp the hoof down to fit an improperly shaped or too-small size of shoe, which is damaging to the movement of the horse and can damage the hoof itself if trimmed or rasped too short.

A poor horseshoer can also make mistakes in the shoeing process itself, not only quicking a horse, but also putting shoe on crooked, using the wrong type of shoe for the job at hand, shaping the shoe improperly, or setting it on too far forward or back.

It is important that the saddle be comfortable for both the rider and the horse as an improperly fitting saddle may create pressure points on the horse's back muscle ( Latissimus dorsi ) and cause the horse pain and can lead to the horse, rider, or both getting injured.

An underhalter is a lightweight halter or headcollar which is made with only one small buckle, and can be worn under a bridle for tethering a horse without untacking.

Pulling on the reins can be used to steer or stop the horse.

Not only do they break easily, but, being attached to a bit in the horse's sensitive mouth, a great deal of pain can be inflicted if a bridled horse sets back against being tied.

In the wrong hands even the mildest bit can hurt the horse.

Conversely, a very severe bit, in the right hands, can transmit subtle commands that cause no pain to the horse.

Various styles can be used as a control measure, to prevent the horse from avoiding rider commands by raising its head out of position ; or as a safety measure to keep the horse from tossing its head high or hard enough to smack its rider in the face.

The standing martingale acts on the horse's nose and creates an absolute limit to how high a horse can raise its head.

Rudolf Simek notes that these horse heads gables can " still be seen today " ( from a 2007 edition of a work first published in 1984 ) and says that the horse head gables confirm that Hengist and Horsa were originally considered mythological, horse-shaped beings.

Who can tell the sensations which I experienced when I found myself rocking, as it were, upon my horse, and with him moving to and fro like a child in a cradle, with the most imminent danger around me .” He noted that as the earthquake retreated, " the air was filled with an extremely disagreeable sulphurous odor.

A good horse is difficult to ride, but it can carry weight and travel far.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

there was no point in locking it up in the armoire now, it was like locking the barn after the horse was stolen.

The Caeremoniale Episcoporum no longer makes mention of episcopal gloves, episcopal sandals, liturgical stockings ( also known as buskins ), or the accoutrements that it once prescribed for the bishop's horse.

A carbine was typically no longer than a sheathed sabre, both arranged to hang with their tops clear of the rider ’ s elbows and bottoms clear of the horse ’ s legs.

This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

To define a horse as ' a member of the species equus would convey no information whatsoever.

Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

Moreover, these unconventional troops created a psychological impact over the enemy, which was not used to dealing with horse troops, having no training or strategy to face them.

As Tex, his horse and dog are very thirsty, Kalamakooya also makes a waterfall where there had been no water before and so when the town was built, it was named after Tex's feathers and the waterfalls.

No one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, but she felt that a lick every now and then did her boys no harm.

That is, to engage in one's hobby equated to the horse outfit from the term's formulation and was considered a puerile overindulgence that would yield no benefit.

After the stroke, Cagney was no longer able to undertake many of his favorite pastimes, including horse riding and dancing, and as he became more depressed, he even gave up his beloved painting.

Contrary to the Western perception of possession, a Loa has no need to remain in the horse ( possessed ritualist ).

" Odin wagers his head that no horse as good could be found in all of Jötunheimr.

The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome grey horse that no one had ever mounted.

There was no standard gauge for horse railways, but there were rough groupings: in the north of England none were less than.

When Terrill and the men ride to the Hannassey place in retribution for Buck's harassment, McKay stays at the ranch and successfully rides the unruly horse while telling no one except ranch hand Ramon ( Alfonso Bedoya ).

A quarter of a century later, Joseph Conrad described Amsterdam's trams in chapter 14 of The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ): From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

If a horse or rider knocks down a bottom or middle rail while still clearing the height of the obstacle, providing the rails are directly underneath the top rail, they receive no penalties.

There is no correlation between the size of a horse and its athletic ability, nor do tall horses necessarily have an advantage when jumping.

Thomas Nichol, Wharton Barker, and Benjamin Harrison were widely considered to be the primary architects of Garfield's ascendancy during the convention, but no one could have controlled this unpredictable outcome for such a dark horse — one who had personally objected at every step.

And, despite rumors of ill-gotten wealth, Garfield could afford no horse and buggy to park in the White House stable, but accepted Hayes ' offer of his own quite used-up rig.

Patton, who had been told he had no chance to ever again ride a horse or resume normal life, at one point commented: " This is a hell of a way to die.

The nickname " the Walker ", " Ganger " in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.