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Master's nerves fray, the cigarette smoke pouring from hairy nostrils, displeasure writ large on his horse-length face.

schoolyard soccer James Claffey 2011

She wanted to be more devoted to him physically, but she was already as though at least one horse-length on her quest.

Eclipse Beate Sigriddaughter 2011

As she fought through the screening of brush and came out on the bank under the willows, the first thing she saw was Jadrie, standing less than a horse-length away.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

He is eating chocolate or something, half a horse-length (the correct distance) behind me.

Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Keith Henderson 1932

A chevroned black-beard half a horse-length behind him translated the demand into stately Pashtu, and for answer the hill chieftain mounted his stolen horse and shook his tulwar.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

It was about midway of that four-mile march in the pouring rain that I saw by the roadside three immobile horsemen, their forms swathed in horsemen's rain-cloaks, their faces hidden under broad-brimmed rain-hats, lined up with their horses 'noses barely a horse-length from the roadway, watching from a little knoll our column as it passed.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

Although thus handicapped the Crimson seemed a horse-length ahead before the other chariots had cleared the sills of their stalls and a full chariot-length ahead before it reached the near end of the _spina_ wall.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

As soon as he came within horse-length he let down his queue and bowed reverently, and I could see pride lighting his features as he confessed to the honour that had been done him in intrusting such an honourable and illustrious charge to the mean and unworthy care of so contemptible an officer.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

As soon as he came within horse-length he let down his queue and bowed reverently, and I could see pride lighting his features as he confessed to the honour that had been done him in intrusting such an honourable and illustrious charge to the mean and unworthy care of so contemptible an officer.

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

As he rode he whipped off his right gauntlet, and then halting within a horse-length of the silent warrior, held out his bare hand.

Under Fire Charles King 1888