horsecloth
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I was tempted at last to take the horsecloth off my shoulders, and to wrap my feet up in it, but all was of no use.
From Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by Little, Norman
The stranger waited, though rather impatiently, till Bennet reappeared, leading a rough Dunsmoor pony, with a horsecloth tied round it, on which he mounted without saddle.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
Betty drew her down beside her under the horsecloth and threw her arms round her; Victoria's body was cold as ice.
From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel
She slipped into bed and drew the horsecloth over her ears.
From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel
Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
Then there was the paddock, a small course some hundred meters in circumference, where a stable help was walking about Valerio II in his horsecloths.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
It was heavily laden, covered with horsecloths and strong wolf-skins, and firmly bound with tightly drawn tarred ropes.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
In front of him walked Kutuzov's groom leading horses in horsecloths.
From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
On receiving his command, the servants hastened to the waggon, hewed asunder the stout ropes with their swords, removed the thick wolf-skins and horsecloths, and drew forth the flasks and casks.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads.
From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
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