dobbin

““Does he live there?” asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster.”

Walden

“The tale of how He coming unexpectedly home found Him with Her was then put through its paces with such skilful jockeying that not one in ten would know it for the same dobbin so lately brought limping to the light.”

The Henchman

“Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes 'shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'.”

Tom Sawyer Abroad

“An 'if you'll b'lieve it, she won't talk picters nor make any sence she got back -- only, jest after she got back, she said she didn't see any use o' her goin 'on dobbin' good canvas up with good paint, an 'makin' nothin 'but poor picters; an' she cried some ....”

Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

“The meal was put in the wagon, the horse unhitched, the wagon mounted, the goad picked up and a thrust made, but dobbin was in no hurry.”

A Study Of Hawthorne

“Does he live there?" asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster.”

Walden~ Chapter 07 (historical)

“It seems Stateside audiences have fallen for the story of Albert the Devon farmboy who goes searching for his beloved dobbin, Joey, on the battlefields of the first world war every bit as fervently as we Brits - and none more so than”

The Guardian World News

“Foreigners browsing Italian shops for baby food can be startled to find jars bearing the picture of a noble chestnut dobbin.”

The Guardian World News