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My uncle told me a story about how he was once visiting a ranch as a young boy and as he stood there with his back to the horse-pen, a particularly nasty nag leaned over the gate and, in his words, "took a bite out of my shoulder like an apple", lifting him up off the ground and throwing him a few feet.
Hayrides Are Dangerous And Harrowing Things That I Do Not Like 2008
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A warrior was just taking down the bars that separated the horse-pen from the main boma, and he yelled in amazement as she darted past him.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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A warrior was just taking down the bars that separated the horse-pen from the main boma, and he yelled in amazement as she darted past him.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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A warrior was just taking down the bars that separated the horse-pen from the main boma, and he yelled in amazement as she darted past him.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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There are few adults, residing within a day's sailing of the horse-pen, that have not attended one or more of these exciting scenes.
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A strong enclosure, called the horse-pen, is made at a narrow part of the reef, and suitable in other respects for the purpose -- with a connected strong fence, stretching quite across the reef.
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A special portion of the court yard is occupied by the so-called horse-pen, in which the horses are confined at night.
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"'On the edge of the stream a favorable spot was selected in a grove; and felling the timber, we made a strong _corral_, or horse-pen, for the animals, and a little fort for the people who were to remain.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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To quote Meek's own language, "Sublette came round the horse-pen swearing and snorting.
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