Example Sentences

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Even at moorings they shiver and sidle like half-backed horses.

From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard

And trust some random pike, or half-backed horse, Besides what's caught in Italy, to save him.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard