"Bots" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just state what were the defects of the horse. He answered, that he once had the pink-eye, and added, "now that's honest." I thought so, but proceeded to question him closely. I asked him if he had the bots. He said, not a bot. I asked him if he would go. He said he would go till he dropped down dead; just touch him with a whip, and he'll jump out of his hide. I inquired how old he was. He answered, just eight years, exactly—some men, he said, wanted to make their horses younger than they be; he ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... "Bots," replied Mr. Gibney, who prided himself on being something of a veterinarian, having spent a few months of his youth around a ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... with the glanders and like to mose in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten; near-legged before, and with a half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather, which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots; one girth six ...
— The Taming of the Shrew • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... old farmer, "the more is the pity; for that Wayland Smith (whether he was the devil's crony or no I skill not) had a good notion of horses' diseases, and it's to be thought the bots will spread in the country far and near, an Satan has not gien un time to leave his ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... because they have been whipped, and are afraid of what is behind them. This is an invariable rule with baulked horses, just as much as it is for them to look around at their sides when they have the bots.[106-*] In either case they are deserving of the same sympathy and ...
— A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses • J. S. Rarey |
