HORSE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - horse in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1  That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
2  The lank brown horses knew it and shook their bells to the clear night in admonition.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
3  The plump bald sergeant major was testing with his foot the springboard of the vaulting horse.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
4  It was the last tram; the lank brown horses knew it and shook their bells to the clear night in admonition.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
5  There remained no trace of the tram itself nor of the tram-men nor of the horses: nor did he and she appear vividly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
6  No sound broke the peace of the night save when the lank brown horses rubbed their noses together and shook their bells.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
7  As a boy he had imagined the reins by which horses are driven as slender silken bands and it shocked him to feel at Stradbrooke the greasy leather of harness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
8  Against the walls stood companies of barbells and Indian clubs; the dumbbells were piled in one corner: and in the midst of countless hillocks of gymnasium shoes and sweaters and singlets in untidy brown parcels there stood the stout leather-jacketed vaulting horse waiting its turn to be carried up on the stage and set in the middle of the winning team at the end of the gymnastic display.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2