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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

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

We saw in the shops many articles, such as horsecloths, belts, and garters, woven by the Indian women.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

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