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  • The horse-kick incident — and the possibility that it contributed to Lincoln's mental makeup in adulthood — is worth considering.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • The horse-kick incident — and the possibility that it contributed to Lincoln's mental makeup in adulthood — is worth considering.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • Sure, a swift horse-kick like that sounds harsh, but surely it's necessary.

    Cate Blanchett To Star In Wrinkly Old Indiana Jones 4? 2006

  • With the suddenness and severity of a horse-kick, it lashed out with its right hand, catching the redoubtable Dooley a thud on the jaw, and sending him to grass as if he had been shot.

    Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

  • In his ` ` Surgery '' Lamothe mentions a case of insensibility of the hands and feet in consequence of a horse-kick in the head without the infliction of any external wound.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • In his "Surgery" Lamothe mentions a case of insensibility of the hands and feet in consequence of a horse-kick in the head without the infliction of any external wound.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Lt. Rod Englert, nationally renowned blood-spatter expert, said these were made as someone repositioned Donna’s body, not by medium velocity blood spatter from a horse-kick wound.

    Without Pity Ann Rule 2003

  • Lt. Rod Englert, nationally renowned blood-spatter expert, said these were made as someone repositioned Donna’s body, not by medium velocity blood spatter from a horse-kick wound.

    Without Pity Ann Rule 2003

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