Example Sentences

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The chasing Maruts with gleaming spears, the golden-breasted, have gained great strength, they move along on quick, well-broken horses;—when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

Of what use is an active, robust and well-broken fox, well started, if he be permitted to get back into his hole?

From Cordwood by Nye, Bill

No man has really hunted who has never shot quail in Alabama over a well-broken setter.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

I tell you, I like gentle and well-broken horses if I am out for pleasure, and I do not get on any other, unless, as in this case, from sheer necessity.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

As they become wearied you will have a difficulty in keeping even old well-broken dogs separate—much more young ones, however independently they may have ranged when fresh.

From The Dog by Dinks