“Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice ⟳ of them.”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love ⟳ a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last ⟳ commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”

“These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present ⟳ in all horses.”

“We should place ⟳ two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.”

“Now just remind ⟳ me how the horse moves again?”

“Every linebacker they have ⟳ is a real horse.”

“She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see ⟳ how she does with the horse.”

“a clothes horse; a sawhorse”

“The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain ⟳ the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms”

“But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set ⟳ little eye—something like ⟳ a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.”

“She said: "I'm starved. I could eat ⟳ a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.”

“This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay ⟳ in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […]”

“Riccio nodded toward a boy across the floor and said, “See ⟳ that kid? He’s on dope.” The boy was standing against a wall, staring vacantly at the dancers, his face ⟳ fixed in a gentle, faraway smile ⟳. Every few seconds, he would wipe his nose with the back of his hand. “Man, that Jo-Jo!” Benny said. “He’s stoned all the time.” “What’s he on—horse? Riccio asked, meaning heroin. “Who knows with that creep ⟳?” Benny said. I asked Benny if any special kind of boy went in for dope. “The creeps,” he said. “You know ⟳, the goofballs.” He searched for a word. “The weak kids. Like ⟳ Jo-Jo. There ain’t nothing the guys can’t do to him. Last ⟳ week, we took his pants off and made him run ⟳ right in the middle of the street without them.””

“Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar”

“It was to remember ⟳ the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set ⟳ of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste ⟳ of marijuana, his first snort of horse.”

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