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  • I selected the better, an Africander stallion of the blaauw-schimmel, or blue-roan type, which is famous for speed and endurance.

    Prester John 2005

  • With that he mounted his blue-roan pony and rode away as deliberately as he had come.

    Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

  • Some of the scores the blue-roan colt paid in kind, some he did not, but he learned the game of give and take.

    Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

  • I selected the better, an Africander stallion of the blaauw-schimmel, or blue-roan type, which is famous for speed and endurance.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • She did outride any man in the county, and she had a blue-roan by the name of Robin Hood; which same, methinks, no man in or out o 'th' county would 'a' cared to bestride.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • One day it chanced that my lady rode the blue-roan out into the woods, towards the hut of old Joan Gobble, who was crippled by reason of age.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • He imagined the neighbours 'surprise when he came driving up on his car; if possible he would be driving a little blue-roan mare like Farmer Finucane's Rosemary, with whom he had made friends in the course of many shoeings.

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

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