"Two-year" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... asked, winking at the rest, "when you took a brave start wid myself across Crockaniska, one summer Sunday night, long ago. Be me sowl, you proved youself as supple as a two-year-old—cleared, drain and ditch like a bird—and had me, when we reached my uncle's, that the ayes wor ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... filly who won the two-year purse at the Philadelphia races in sixty-eight," the squire informed her, between gulps of sausage ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... illustrated the geometric growth over a two-year period— through September 1991—of the number of networks that comprise the Internet. This growth has been sustained largely by the availability of three basic functions: electronic mail, file transfer (ftp), and remote log-on (telnet). LARSEN also reviewed the growth in the ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly
... and ride up on a gallop, but we held our course for the grove. We were busy making camp when the two rode in with a fine two-year-old buck across the pommel of Cushion's saddle. They had only disemboweled him, but Conajo had the heart as a trophy of the accuracy of the shot, though Cushion hadn't a word to say. It was a splendid heart shot. Conajo took it over and showed it to the ...
— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams
... though at mine the years flow onward with such a gliding motion that it is only one's looking-glass, and the quarterly accounts, that tell one time is moving. However, I have seen a good many of these two-year engagements—' ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
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