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  • If he had been able to sweat, he would have; this was hard labor, as hard as horse-taming or riding night-guard.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • For example, she could not be present at rodeos or other activities where males would be exercising their manhood in horse-taming.

    Frida Alexandr. 2009

  • He never sent gifts for the sake of the neat-ankled maid, for he knew in his heart that golden-haired Menelaus would win, since he was greatest of the Achaeans in possessions and was ever sending messages 142 to horse-taming

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • And they, horse-taming Cycnus and Ares, insatiable in war, came on together like fire or whirlwind.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Excavators recently found a clay model of a horse in Troy of the 1200s B.C. Finally, there was the religious connotation: as a votive offering, the Horse was all but an admission of Greek war guilt, a symbolic submission to the gods of the horse-taming Trojans.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Excavators recently found a clay model of a horse in Troy of the 1200s B.C. Finally, there was the religious connotation: as a votive offering, the Horse was all but an admission of Greek war guilt, a symbolic submission to the gods of the horse-taming Trojans.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • If he had been able to sweat, he would have; this was hard labor, as hard as horse-taming or riding night-guard.

    Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • And Thero lay in the embrace of Apollo and bare horse-taming Chaeron of hardy strength. '

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • Fragment #11 -- Stephanus of Byzantium [1708], s.v.: '(Heracles) slew the noble sons of steadfast Neleus, eleven of them; but the twelfth, the horsemen Gerenian Nestor chanced to be staying with the horse-taming

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • And they, horse-taming Cycnus and Ares, insatiable in war, came on together like fire or whirlwind.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

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