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  • Lennan held the black horse -- a bizarre little beast, all fire and whipcord, with a skin like satin, liquid eyes, very straight hocks, and a thin bang-tail reaching down to them.

    The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

  • Lennan held the black horse -- a bizarre little beast, all fire and whipcord, with a skin like satin, liquid eyes, very straight hocks, and a thin bang-tail reaching down to them.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Leisler at the request of an aristocrat who drove a pair of bang-tail horses up and down Nassau Street on pleasant afternoons and was afterwards collector of the port.

    Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873

  • His practised eye is not to be imposed upon either by the blandishments of the bang-tail, or the bereavements of the dock.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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