"Trotting horse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exercise you can bear; and this only when you can fill it with such company as is best suited to your taste, and how glad would you be if it could waft you in the air to avoid jolting; while I, who am so much later in life, can, or at least could, ride five hundred miles on a trotting horse. You mortally hate writing, only because it is the thing you chiefly ought to do, as well to keep up the vogue you have in the world, as to make you easy in your fortune: you are merciful to everything but money your best friend, whom ...
— Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) • Lewis Melville
... sir!" she attested resolutely. "And my father says—" Still resolutely her young mouth curved to its original assertion, but from under her heavy-shadowing eyelashes a little blue smile crept softly out. "When my father's got a lame trotting horse, sir, that he's trying to shuck off his hands," she faltered, "he doesn't ever go round mournful-like with his head hanging—telling folks about his wonderful trotter that's just 'the littlest, teeniest, ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... a horse?" said Betty to herself, breaking off her reverie abruptly. "Hark! that sounds like a trotting horse." ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson |
