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  • noun Plural form of sorrel.

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Examples

  • Knee-deep in the wild oats of the hillside grazed two horses, chestnut-sorrels the pair of them, perfectly matched, warm and golden in the sunshine, their spring-coats a sheen of high-lights shot through with color-flashes that glowed like fiery jewels.

    Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

  • At odd times during the week he examined numbers of chestnut sorrels, tried several, and was unsatisfied.

    Chapter XI 2010

  • We broke and ran, in a confusion of yelling swearing men and rearing horses; below on the slope a body of kneeling troopers with their sorrels behind them-Tom Custer's people-were firing revolver volleys at our pursuers, and behind me as I flew were shrieks of agony blending with the war-whoops.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Straight ahead below me, to the right of the long gully, the cavalry dead lay thick where Yates and Tom Custer and Smith had died with their troops-but far down there was still a group mounted on sorrels, and I could see the puffs of smoke from their pistols.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • But all I got was a whizzing of arrows and balls as I tore through the gap, rode down two braves who sprang to bar my path, cut at and missed a mounted fellow with a club, and then I was thundering down the right side of the gully towards the group on their sorrels-and they weren't there!

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • He wandered from stable to stable examining bays and roans, blue roans and piebalds, duns, sorrels, blacks, whites, grays and dapples, all mares or geldings.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

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