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"Our dream is to change their Ferraris for horses," says Nuria Mercader, the Asian marketing manager for Caballos Llargues, a Spanish horse-breeder.
Chinese Chukkers Lara Farrar 2011
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Perhaps like WMDs, an Iraq-Bin Laden conspiracy, Harriet being a reasonable Supreme Court Nominee, and that putting a horse-breeder in charge of FEMA was a good idea, perhaps many people make assumptions.
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He talked as easily to the horse-breeder or to the plumber as to us.
The Waves 2003
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For that Sicyonian horse-breeder was wise, who gave Agamemnon as a present a swift mare, "that he should not follow him to wind-swept Ilium, but delight himself at home," [306] in the quiet enjoyment of his abundant riches and painless leisure.
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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"Well, it seems," replied Dick, finding it, after all, an awkward subject to talk of to a woman, "she's gone to live with that horse-breeder who's taken Burton's farm."
Women of the Country Gertrude Bone
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Melvine, a great horse-breeder, one day took sides in a quarrel between a horse and its master, fought the man for abusing his horse -- fought him hard and long: 'twas "t'other and which" with them for a while.
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They made me do it -- my family -- nagged me to marry Tom, then a rich horse-breeder of our county, till home was such a hell I couldn't stand it.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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She had scarcely had time to recover breath before Burton, the horse-breeder, came into the room -- a big-bearded man, of heavy build, with a familiar loudness and fussiness which would have been better in the open air, than even in the new vulgarity of his drawing-room.
Women of the Country Gertrude Bone
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In like manner, a horse-breeder depends so much on the pedigree in his colts that he is willing to enter them in a race.
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The horse-breeder raised his eyebrows a little, but bowed ceremonious.
Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942
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