"Farrier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Khodadad Khan, Orderly, knocked the holes in the tin like I showed him—or elthe got the Farrier Thargeant to do it, and thaid ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... Randolph M'Innes linen printer John Hall do. Wm. Yuill do. Patrick M'Farlane do. Andrew Aitken wright Walter Lindsay labourer John M'Grigor copperman Wm. M'Farlane shoemaker Wm. M'Aulay maltman John Barton farmer John Barr farrier William Gordon James Bain miller Robt. M'Farlane farmer John Cafor Andrew ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... become. Oh, moonwort! tell me where thou hid'st the smith, Hammer and pinchers, thou unshodd'st them with? Alas! what lock or iron engine is't That can the subtle secret strength resist? Still the best farrier cannot set a shoe So sure but ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor
... fortified his wise position by the instance of a late statesman, who, he averred, cut his throat with a pen-knife, to relieve himself of pressure on the temples: while another surgeon—Stephen Cramp, he was farrier as well, and had been, until lately, time out of mind, the village AEsculapius, who looked with scorn on his pert rival, and opposed him tooth and nail on all occasions—insisted that it was not only physically impossible for poor Mrs. Quarles so to have strangled ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... state of the roads was such as to render walking an impossibility; still, I hope I have stated sufficient to give my readers a good idea of the great pleasure they will derive from keeping a pony; and I will now, with the bills of the miller and farrier before me, proceed to show the sum for which it may be kept. Our pony cost for food, from the 4th of January to the 24th of December in the same year, $46.66. He consumed during that period five quarters of oats, at $8 the quarter, and five bushels of ...
— Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it • Miss Coulton
... with love's wound."—SHAK: ib. "For what else is a redhot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than redhot wood?"—NEWTON: ib. "Pollevil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume in the horse's poll, or nape of the neck just between the ears."—FARRIER: ib. ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... voice behind. "They've chucked the best farrier between Hull and Dewsbury. Think they'll take you ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling |
