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Tom Faggus, the great highwayman, and his young blood-mare, the strawberry!

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

But the children did not return in them; for on the quay, where the balks were due, to be warped ashore unlashed and conveyed inland to the mines, stood Jim Tregay waiting with their grandfather's blood-mare Actress harnessed in a spring-cart.

Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'It was tit for tat: your blood-mare -- my old Robin.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

Dickon broke his neck near Warrington Bridge, in an attempt to show off a foundered blood-mare which he wished to palm upon a Manchester merchant who had joined the insurgents.

Rob Roy 1887

When only eight, I won the St. Remy Cup at the Pilwiddle races, -- riding my favorite blood-mare Hellfire.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

Tom Faggus, the great highwayman, and his young blood-mare, the strawberry!

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

Daisy was a good blood-mare of my uncle's, and to such a proposition I could not for my soul say no; so we rode in safety to

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Dickon broke his neck near Warrington Bridge, in an attempt to show off a foundered blood-mare which he wished to palm upon a Manchester merchant who had joined the insurgents.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Dickon broke his neck near Warrington Bridge, in an attempt to show off a foundered blood-mare which he wished to palm upon a Manchester merchant who had joined the insurgents.

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

a foundered blood-mare which he wished to palm upon a Manchester merchant who had joined the insurgents.

Rob Roy 2005