cock-horse

In the nursery rhyme "Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross", the fine lady has rings on her fingers and what on her toes?

May 2007 2007

J.J. because Lord Fareham, who is here, has given J.J. an order; and he hates me, because I wear a clean shirt, and ride a cock-horse.

The Newcomes 2006

I'd find the tawny cock-horse out, what sort of bird it was!

The Frogs 2000

No cock-horse in my plays, by Zeus, no goat-stag there you'll see,

The Frogs 2000

I'd find the tawny cock-horse out, what sort of bird it was!

The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

No cock-horse in _my_ plays, by Zeus, no goat-stag there you'll see,

The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

There was Julia perched cock-horse on the bank -- there was Emily, her hair undone, her bonnet crashed, with one shoe and stocking lost -- and yet he had promised Mamma, that if she would but once trust his sisters to him, that he would bring them home, "with such a pretty basket of spring-flowers."

A Love Story A Bushman

Trimalchio, not to seem concerned at the loss, kissed the boy, and commanded him to get on his back; nor was it long e're he was a cock-horse, and slapping his masters shoulders, and laughing, cry'd out, "Fool, fool, and how many of them have we here?"

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

A huge fellow, with one eye closed and half his whiskers burned by powder, was riding cock-horse on a gun, and, catching my attention, yelled out, "We told you to bet on your boys."

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

Mr. Holworthy was emphatically at home, for he was on all-fours, his three children riding cock-horse, with merry shouts, varied by harmless tumbles and laborious clamberings up.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various