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An exclamation from the play King Richard the Third, by William Shakespeare; the king cries out, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” after his horse is killed in battle, leaving him at the mercy of his enemies.

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How to use kingdom for a horse!, My in a sentence

But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?
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Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
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But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
At the mention of the Merrill Horse, Poindexter's countenance took on a demoniac expression.
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But you are mistaken in thinking the force west consists of the entire Merrill Horse.
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