broken-kneed

The livery horse he had rented down in the valley was a broken-kneed, jaded, and spiritless creature, that stood calmly while its rider was dragged from its back by the wild-looking and violently impetuous man who sprang out around a sharp turn of the trail.

CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

What had happened was that the livery horse, in its stiff - jointed, broken-kneed gallop, had stumbled, nearly fallen, and, in its sprawling recovery, had accidentally stepped on Jerry, bruising and breaking his fore-leg.

CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

The ponies were thin, shaggy, broken-kneed beings, under fourteen hands high, with harness of a most meagre description, and its cohesive qualities seemed very small, if I might judge from the frequency with which the driver alighted to repair its parts with pieces of twine, with which his pockets were stored, I suppose in anticipation of such occasions.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

“Hath he told about the broken-kneed horse?” cried out Harry, turning very red.

The Virginians 2006

That he did not arrive there with a broken-kneed horse, the reader may be quite sure.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

He went through the form this morning (knowing I had no riding habit) of offering to hire a little broken-kneed brute of a pony for me, in case I wished to accompany him!

Armadale 2003

Toby Vanderwiller drove up to the Sherwood house behind his broken-kneed pony.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

The trot he used to enjoy by stealth on the butcher's broken-kneed pony, is succeeded now by a gallop on a steed of Quartermain's; and he is delighted to find that horse and owner strive which shall be the softest-mouthed and gentlest charger.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 Various

Mrs. Vanderwiller insisted upon Toby's hitching up an old, broken-kneed pony he owned, and taking her over the corduroy road to Pine Camp, where she arrived before dark.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

The broken-kneed mare was still lying sad-eyed in her stall.

Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931