stableful

At ten o'clock that evening, while the cold North Sea still swirled in eddies through the settling wreck, Gypsy Joe left his house and made his quiet normal rounds of his stableful of dozing horses; as he would safely do the next night, and the next night, and the next.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

For Stanford, who had a stableful of spectacular racehorses, the project was always about horses – he saw it as useful for understanding their anatomy, movement, and plotting their training, and little more.

Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010

The bigger problem is that you've got a stableful of overpaid and mostly worthless columnists on the op-ed page.

Letter To WaPo Ombud Howell About George Will's Smearing Of Webb 2009

"I have only one horse, but you know it would never do to allow anyone of rank or wealth to know I have only one horse, so Miralys changes his color and his shape just a little so everyone thinks I have a whole stableful."

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He also had thought of the stableful of horses which had belonged to himself when he became of age; and of the much more humble position which his son would have to fill than that which his father had prepared for him.

Doctor Thorne 2004

"True, " Vuillard said, -and it might even be King Nicolas if he captures Lisbon quickly enough, but the Emperor has a stableful of idle brothers.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

At ten o'clock that evening, while the cold North Sea still swirled in eddies through the settling wreck, Gypsy Joe left his house and made his quiet normal rounds of his stableful of dozing horses; as he would safely do the next night, and the next night, and the next.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

"Spook, you're more trouble than a stableful of rats, but I like you," Stile said calmly.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

"Spook, you're more trouble than a stableful of rats, but I like you," Stile said calmly.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

It figured that for the stableful he'd got, George Caspar would employ only the best.

Whip Hand Francis, Dick 1979