The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

The guerrillas were running across the parade ground and through the rear gate in the wake of the departing horses.

Mr. Manuel whispered in the ears of the Sioux that the Cheyennes were comin' to raid 'em for their horses.

There were two horses in the barn, a sway-backed dun and Jess Crouch's buckskin.

The hoofmarks of cattle and the prints of bare feet in the mud or in the dust were as numerous as the traces of shod horses.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

The horses were groomed to a high gloss ; ;

some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed ; ;

It was a busy street, conveniently near the shopping center, and unattended horses and wagons were often left at the curbside.

The ghost of the dead hero appeared and so terrified the horses, that they threw and trampled upon the invaders, who were forced to retire.

Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.

Tallard's force had suffered considerably more than Marlborough's troops on their march – many of his cavalry horses were suffering from glanders, and the mountain passes were proving tough for the 2, 000 wagons of provisions.

In the First World War, German agents were arrested attempting to inoculate draft animals with anthrax, and they were believed to be responsible for outbreaks of glanders in horses and mules.

He used stevedores working the docks in Baltimore to infect horses with glanders while they were waiting to be shipped to Britain.

However, according to Froissart, the English were expecting this and quickly attacked the enemy, especially the horses, with a shower of arrows.

This was a formidable fighting force, and the English archers were running very low on arrows ; the archers joined the infantry in the fight and some of both groups mounted horses to form an improvised cavalry.

Food, horses and other goods flooded into the city, and thousands of slaves from West Africa were transported to the island to work on the undermanned sugar plantations.

Saint Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel were used for horses.

But large horses were still very exceptional at this time.

The Chinese recognized early on during the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) that they were at a disadvantage in lacking the number of horses the northern nomadic peoples mustered in their armies.

He, with fifteen or twenty horses or mares or geldings or what-nots out there in the barn, was reverent only of `` the Mare '', `` the Racin' Mare '', the revolting Gunny.

She has only the ability to create a soulless body, and thus she is “ persuaded to undertake the journey to heaven to ask for a soul ,” and “ the Seven Liberal Arts produce a chariot for her ... the Five Senses are the horses ”.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

Equidae ( sometimes known as the horse family ) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, donkeys, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils.

In the horse breeding industry, the term " half-brother " or " half-sister " only describes horses which have the same dam, but different sires.

As a rule, only very advanced horses and riders use double bridles.

Inns tend to be grander and more long-lived establishments ; historically they provided not only food and lodging, but also stabling and fodder for the traveler's horse ( s ) and fresh horses for the mail coach.

In 2005, the purse distribution for the Derby was changed, so that horses finishing fifth would henceforth receive a share of the purse ; previously only the first four finishers did so.

On the other hand, those groups who do continue to tolerate milk often have exercised great creativity in using the milk of domesticated ungulates, not only of cattle, but also sheep, goats, yaks, water buffalo, horses, reindeers and camels.

During the chariot race, Ben-Hur drives four horses, but in the pan and scan version of the film, the audience sometimes sees only two.

During half-time of a match, spectators are invited to go onto the field to participate in a polo tradition called " divot stamping ", which has developed to not only help replace the mounds of earth ( divots ) that are torn up by the horses ' hooves, but to afford spectators the opportunity to walk about and socialise.

Inns tend to be older and grander establishments: historically they provided not only food and lodging, but also stabling and fodder for the traveller's horse ( s ) and on some roads fresh horses for the mail coach.

Not only is Kobyla Russian for " mare ", some of his relatives also had as nicknames the terms for horses and other domestic animals, thus suggesting descent from one of the royal equerries.

Rhys had collected 86 of the 300 horses, but Henry agreed to take only 36 of them and remitted the remainder of the tribute until after his return from Ireland.

Out of all the Rough Riders, Roosevelt was the only one with a horse, as the troopers ' horses had been left behind because transport ships were scarce.

The only casualty of the conflict was a Michigan deputy sheriff — stabbed in the leg by Two Stickney during the arrest of his elder brother, One Stickney — and the loss of two horses, two pigs and a few chickens stolen from an Ohio farm by lost members of the Michigan militia.

Refugee convoys were bombed while on the ice by the Soviet airforce, so only a small number of horses made it to safety.

Like horses, zebras sleep standing up, and only sleep when neighbors are around to warn them of predators.

A number of smaller enclosures visible only from the tram are home Somali wild asses, kiangs ( one of the world's only captive populations of this endangered wild equine ), Arabian oryx, gorals, Japanese serows, black rhinoceroses, and Przewalski's wild horses.

However, in 2008, lineage 2, previously only seen in horses in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, began to appear in horses in Europe, where the first known outbreak affected 18 animals in Hungary in 2008.