"Unharness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me unharness the parlor chairs, And packed my cannon and all the rest Of my noisiest playthings off up-stairs, On account ...
— Our Boys - Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors • Various
... fly round now, you're going to sleep," said he to the man with him, who was trying to unharness a horse, but did not know ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
... School. Diana and Wendy turned the colour of boiled beetroot. The cyclists dismounted in a body, and Miss Chadwick, staggered at the amazing spectacle of the wreck before her, took over instant possession. She tilted her bicycle against a lamp-post, sent a boy for a blacksmith, and began to unharness Baron. When he was clear of the shafts, and being led away by a friendly ostler, she demanded explanations. Diana supplied them briefly. Miss Chadwick looked at her keenly, but forbore to comment before ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... reached the top of the hill. The house was only a short distance from the road. He could see his father carrying a basket of wood to the house. He hoped that his father would not come and help him unharness the horses. He wanted to be alone; he dreaded facing their conversation at the dinner-table. His eyes grew hot again. Everything was so old to him! He always came home just at dinner time, his father always worked about the barn, finishing ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... at the top of his voice. Was nobody coming to take the horses? Where were those rascals sleeping? And the other men, the day labourers, hadn't come yet. The farmer scolded and groaned when he found that he would have to unharness the horses himself and take ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
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