"Mare" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only waited until the clock pointed to ten; then taking a lantern, he goes and chooses out a stout white mare (for such, they say, are antipathetical to witches), ties her to a linden in the churchyard, enters the church, lights the altar candles, and sits there, reading in the large Bible; until about the hour that the conjuration ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... say now. It may have been the horse, but I hardly think it, for I saw a face. All I remember clear is a-layin' me hand on the mare's back. When I come to I was flat on the lounge. They had fixed me up, and Dr. Mason had gone off. Only the thick hood saved me. Carl and Cully searched the place, but nothin' could be found. Cully says he heard ...
— Tom Grogan • F. Hopkinson Smith
... is not complicated by the individual differences due to the mental vehicle. The stallion supplies the vital qualities—the blood, i.e., the vivacity, brio, pace; physical resistance comes from the mare. To sum up, the modalities of matter are supplied by the ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
... a little red as he answered, "Oh, I shall have two," he said; "that is, the mare I have had these two years, and the horse my father gave ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... think she belonged to the same general class and order with Don Quixote's renowned Rosinante; but she had one peculiarity which is not put down in the description of Rosinante, to wit, the faculty of diagonal or oblique locomotion. This mare of Peter's went forward something after the manner of a crab, and a little like a ship with the wind abeam, as the sailors say. It was a standing topic of dispute among us boys, whether the animal went head ...
— Wreaths of Friendship - A Gift for the Young • T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth
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