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Turning a corner he nearly ran against Barney himself, who was sitting on a horse-block, enjoying a pipe and the sun.

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

Yet, though this shrinking was combined with exceedingly delicate health, she never shirked her duty, but went steadily on with housekeeping, farming, nursing, or public speaking, just as the Lord gave it to her to do -- even consenting to stand upon a horse-block at Huddersfield to address a crowd whom otherwise she could not have reached.

Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen

His buggy wheel protested stridently as he cramped the vehicle at the horse-block, reassuring Mrs. Bowers that his natural force was not abated; and his flight down town affronted the ordinance against reckless driving which he himself had framed.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

A horse-block; steps of wood or stone, made to ascend and descend from a horse.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

Sitting near the door, on a stone which once served as a horse-block for equestrians, Risler watches with a smile the exit from the factory.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Neither succeeded in getting the conversation just where they wanted it before Squire Perkins 'apple orchard came into view, and Dan was obliged to halt his old nag by the horse-block built out from the white fence and assist Jane to alight.

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

Hope; there were twisted the threads of the rotten cable of Despair; there Faith built her cross; there Love vivified the heart, and Hate dyed it; there Remorse sharpened his tooth; there Jealousy tinged his eye with emerald; there was quarried the horse-block from which dark

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

It was an amazed parent that caught sight of her son and heir scrambling off the back of his steed onto the horse-block in front of the church, clad in short swimming trunks and much bluing.

Hepsey Burke

Lacey Rountree was gone home to the Far Cove, and Wade lingered in talk with Grandpap Lusk a while at the horse-block, then got on his mule and, with florid good-byes, rode back home, evidently at rest as to Judith.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

It was brought here from Haddenham, where it had been used as a horse-block, by Mr. Bentham.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See W. D. Sweeting