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Warhorse

noun

A work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition.

An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service. Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran.

Horse used in war.

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"Warhorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... virtue of my growing years and my promise to abstain from the decanters),—I confess, I say, that I, poor innocent, was puzzled to conjecture what sudden interest in the county newspaper could cause Uncle Jack to prick up his ears like a warhorse at the sound of the drum and rush so incontinently across the interval between Squire Rollick and himself. But the mind of that deep and truly knowing man was not to be plumbed by a chit of my age. You could not fish for the ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... of muffled speech came from the next room—a man's voice dimly heard. Madam Weatherstone raised her head like a warhorse. ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... mad. It was the equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses, seeming to stoop this way and to sway that, yet in every attitude having the grace of statuary and the accuracy of arithmetic. The Church in its early days went fierce and fast with any warhorse; yet it is utterly unhistoric to say that she merely went mad along one idea, like a vulgar fanaticism. She swerved to left and right, so exactly as to avoid enormous obstacles. She left on one hand the huge bulk of Arianism, ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... form as the vessel approached the landing at Redwing, for at this point the legendary appeal made itself felt. This lovely valley had once been the home of a chieftain, and his body, together with that of his favorite warhorse, was buried on the summit of a hill which overlooks the river, "in order" (so runs the legend) "that the chief might see the first faint glow of the resurrection morn and ride to ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... and the Plains by ox team. She kissed the bullet hole in it, made in the fight at Little Meadow, as she kissed her father's sword, the while she visioned him, as she always did, astride his roan warhorse. With the old religious awe, she pored over her mother's poems in the scrap-book, and clasped her mother's red satin Spanish girdle about her in a farewell embrace. She unpacked the scrap-book in order to gaze a last time at the wood engraving of the Vikings, sword in hand, leaping ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London