Word: stallion
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Wilhelm, who had supposed his intrinsic greatness to be so transcendant that he had his portrait painted as a Roman Emperor upon a bounding stallion, tasted the ashes of being undeceived...
...dark-bearded portly man, whose flowing garments billowed opulently, wandered through the gaudy Spring Fair at Fez last week, buying here a mechanical piano, there a thoroughbred stallion, a typewriter, jeweled sandals...
From the native chieftains Il Benito received "the traditional royal gift, presents of unminted gold." Likewise a coal-black Arab stallion was presented to him-a splendid beast, covered with a red, white and silver cloth on which was embroidered: "To the Carrier of Water to Dry Lands...
...loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead snake...
...piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince Baltasar Carlos, hangs in the Prado Gallery in Madrid...