How To Use Horseflesh In A Sentence
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British officers pencilled out amusing menus featuring horseflesh and one Major Stewart's ‘devoted batman was killed while bringing his mule-steak lunch to his dug-out’.
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Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
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Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street.
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So the Kitchener weighed it out to him and the good-for-naught entered the shop, whereupon the man set the food before him and he ate till he had gobbled up the whole and licked the saucers and sat perplexed, knowing not how he should do with the Cook concerning the price of that he had eaten, and turning his eyes about upon everything in the shop; and as he looked, behold, he caught sight of an earthen pan lying arsy-versy upon its mouth; so he raised it from the ground and found under it a horse's tail, freshly cut off and the blood oozing from it; whereby he knew that the Cook adulterated his meat with horseflesh.
Arabian nights. English
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This repulsive figure is eternally farting; his stinking bowels suffering from his apparently endless consumption of discount horseflesh and champagne.
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During the wooing scene, Petruchio assesses Kate as though she were a piece of horseflesh, checking her ‘gait’ for imperfections.
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They were already on equal terms in judging horseflesh and in another year Joe would be as good a breaker as Adam was.
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It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats.
The House with the Green Shutters
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She's a sweet women, but not very wise about horseflesh.
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Now, some of the poorer folk cannot afford to pay for butchers 'meat, they are contented with horseflesh, which is not yet rationed, and are willing to sell their ration cards.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
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His fortune grew hugely through playing currency markets and investing in horseflesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had bought a new horse and he wanted the widow's opinion of it, for the Widow Stimson was a competent judge of fine horseflesh.
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‘Gentlemen in dark blue coats with brass buttons and high neckcloths discussed ‘Horseflesh’ over a glass of wine,’ she writes.
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That was understandable enough in a lover of good horseflesh, for the roan was a handsome animal and clearly from stock of excellent quality.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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She barely notices the prime horseflesh a few hundred feet away.
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When he died he left her nothing but the boy Tom, a precocious urchin, inheriting some of his father's sporting propensities, with a certain slang smartness of tone and manner, acquired in those circles where horseflesh is affected as an inducement to speculation.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
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He must have been bred by someone with a great eye for horseflesh.
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The horrors of the trench - rotting horseflesh, mud, poor food, weapons that would not fire, poison gas and the sheer terror of waiting for death - these were the images and experience of the Great War.
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They were, of course, much nearer the blends of Arab and Arabian blood to which we are indebted for everything we prize most in horseflesh.
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Royal Ascot is traditionally a high-point in the social calendar when fashion competes with horseflesh for attention.
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But when two wealthy men bid head-to-head, it isn't just about horseflesh and bloodlines.
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Last year's Cox Plate performance, in a race rated the true test of Australasian horseflesh, was nothing short of phenomenal.
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The pursuits and society of his youth scarcely could be denominated, in Troloppian euphemism, _la creme de la creme_; but they stood him in good stead; then and there was he trained for the encounter of Spain ... whilst sowing his wild oats, he became passionately fond of horseflesh ....
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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Yes, well, women have been treated like horseflesh for thousands of years.
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There's nothing too good in horseflesh you don't deserve, a woman who can ride like that.
Chapter XIII
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The purpose was to safeguard the export of meat products to countries which prohibited the marketing of horseflesh.
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Catching him looking at her in a mirror during their engagement, she sees herself as he sees her, ‘with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’.
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Not sparin 'horseflesh, Captain," he muttered in a low voice.
Chapter 13
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Forbidden to surrender the Sixth Army struggled on in the final weeks of January 1943 eating raw horseflesh, with no medicine for wounds and no anaesthetic for surgery.
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He may be a painter of horses, but while he studied them in detail and rendered them truer to life than any artist had before, it was life itself, rather than horseflesh, which was Stubbs' true subject.
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A measure introduced in the United States Senate on Monday would permanently ban horse slaughter for human consumption as well as the international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption.
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Half a ton of horseflesh running scared across a battlefield is a frightening and dangerous prospect.
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Beyond the whitewashed plank fences grazed the most expensive horseflesh I'd ever set eyes on.
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Otto Herz and Eugen Pfizenmayer, who made the discovery, wondered if they shouldn't eat it, rather than continue to subsist on horseflesh.
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It's a sensible move by Murtagh, though most Flat jockeys that I know would run a mile rather than ride over fences, since they correctly reason that controlling a half-ton of horseflesh is hard enough without putting obstacles in your way.
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In the frame you can just see Ireland's champion rider crushed under an avalanche of horseflesh.
Ruby Walsh displays mastery of Cheltenham with hat-trick of winners
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His genius as a handler of horseflesh has long been acknowledged.
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Unfortunately, Cromwell, with his eye for good horseflesh, noticed Cecil's horse and called him over to inquire about the animal.
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Because horses in America are not food animals, veterinarians commonly prescribe and treat horses with potent drugs that may reside in the horseflesh and be dangerous when consumed by humans.
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Forget your Doncasters and your Melbourne Cups, exciting as they are, this is the real McCoy, the fair-dinkum decider of the best horseflesh in Australasia.
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The market for British horseflesh on the continent has doubled over the last five years.
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They used their Spanish mustangs mainly for basic travel and had an inordinate fondness for cooked horseflesh, eating most of the ones they had and saving only the choicest for riding.23 They were also, always, a semiagricultural tribe, which meant that their applications of the horse would always be limited—in ways that would later accrue entirely to the benefit of their greatest foes, the Comanches.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Horsehide is not quite as readily available as cowhide - we don't eat many horses in America, but the French and Belgians love to munch on horseflesh, so most of the hides come from Europe.
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Unfortunately, the qualities of this horse were so well concealed under his strange-colored hide and his unaccountable gait, that at a time when everybody was a connoisseur in horseflesh, the appearance of the aforesaid pony at Meung — which place he had entered about a quarter of an hour before, by the gate of Beaugency — produced an unfavorable feeling, which extended to his rider.
Archive 2006-12-01
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I was assured that the eating-shops of Cabul and Kandah [= a] r always require a great supply of horseflesh, which is much liked by the natives, and when well seasoned with spices is not to be distinguished from other animal food.
A Peep into Toorkisthhan
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He ran calling, ‘Wildfire, you stupid piece of horseflesh, get yer ass back here!’
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For the rest of us, as always, the sweet smell of horseflesh is the only tonic.
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A double-massed queue of drivers stared at me in amazement: a wet, staggering Scotsman tugging and pleading and swearing at a stationary mound of horseflesh.
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The opening of Jerome Park did as much for "horseflesh" by rescuing the sport of horse racing from the blackguards and thieves, into whose hands it had fallen, and placing it upon a respectable footing.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
