horse-blanket

Squinting in the semidarkness, I made out the form of Alec MacMahon, swathed in an extraordinary get-up of coats, shawls, and odd bits of horse-blanket.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Reduced to paper and deprived of color, the figure looked like “a discouraged and disappointed mendicant, wrapped in a horse-blanket,” Charles told Henry.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Reduced to paper and deprived of color, the figure looked like “a discouraged and disappointed mendicant, wrapped in a horse-blanket,” Charles told Henry.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

His leg was thrust out before him, resting on a starch-box and covered with a leather-bound horse-blanket.

Main Street 2004

There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

While Margo rushed to make some tea, Larry to get some brandy and Leslie opened the windows, Mother put Michael back to bed, and, since he was now clammy with sweat, tenderly covered him with the horse-blanket.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

An old horse-blanket, suspended from the hay-loft in the rear of the stable, served as a curtain behind which knelt Betty in the scarlet coat.

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia Alice Turner Curtis

In this store was kept everything in the hardware line, from a plow to a needle; in the textile line, from a horse-blanket to a pocket handkerchief; then you could buy the productions usually found in a vegetable garden, -- everything was kept, even to Jamaica rum and drugs for the sick; a good place, indeed, for a bright, active boy to gain new ideas.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

In a minute Walter was back with a thick, strong horse-blanket, which he spread out on the turf close to the water.

The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis

For we not only had a chimney, but a table and two stools, one sitting on an inverted barrel spread with a horse-blanket.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various