Example Sentences

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She is obedient to her master’s voice, and will neigh when she hears his footsteps.

From Minnie's Pet Horse by Leslie, Madeline

Your body no more will neigh and will kick, The point of the spur must eternally prick; Whoever contrived a thing with such skill, To keep spurring a horse to make him stand still!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

He meets the fox again, and is instructed that, when he finds the horse with an old saddle on it, he must put on a good one, so that it will neigh.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall

Aha," they will neigh and snicker out, "Judge Curtis has got the North under his feet!

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore

If I release him, ere the first showers of April, the chargers of the Northmen will neigh in the halls of the Capitol.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron