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“To every small boy of North Dixon, Uncle Peter and his sway-backed sorrel mare and rickety spring wagon were a sort of landmark, an accustomed sight which was daily watched for,” his obituary reads.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2018

The first took me to a benighted, strange city of shuttered houses with sway-backed gambrel roofs that I dimly recognized as Providence, R.I.

From Time Magazine Archive

After some man-to-man bargaining, Pr� offered Pawley the concession if he would pay $1,500,000 to the near-bankrupt trolley company's bondholders and get buses rolling in place of the sway-backed trams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whole row of these sway-backed cabins here, too.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry