Word: crupper
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...comes close to his idols Daumier and Goya. He would not generalize; every figure acquires a specific energy, and each countenance is its own face, not merely a mask of passion or a symbol of social role. A little bareback rider's squinched-up face above the massive, churning crupper of a stallion in the Cirque Fernando, 1887-88; the Cyrano nose and signature black gloves of Yvette Guilbert; the weird cadaverous prancing of Valentin the Boneless -- these images live on as obdurately as the traits of Dickens' characters...
...buttock like a crupper bears my weight...
...that flew to the Pole were of the ANT6 four-motored bomber type. Lumbering, ungraceful things with highly tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia's planes are those she has bought abroad and adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been...
...reins and Brown Berry began setting his hooves down faster. Running along the rail 50 yards from the finish, Brown Berry set one down on a stone no bigger than a marble. Brown Berry plunged to the ground, his muzzle sliding through the dirt, catapulting Egan against his crupper and down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins, Egan, as game as his horse, somehow hitched himself back on the seat but ten sulkies had swept by and Brown Berry finished eleventh. Mary Reynolds, with her two out of three heats, won $28,300 in prize money for Owner...
...which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good as a little house...
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