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Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is one thing to "bulldog" or wrestle with a ewe-necked steer and quite another to tackle a well-developed fighting bull.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here comes the wonderful one-horse-shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The animal he rode was a hammer-headed, ewe-necked beast with a disconsolate eye and a half-shed winter coat.

From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward

Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay, "Huddup!" said the parson.—Off went they.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn