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• The longer and more oblique the pastern the greater is the strain on the flexor tendons and suspensory ligaments; hence a low quarter, a toe calk, and no heel calks, or a thin calk placed at the tip under the toe, and leaving the quarters long abnormally stretches the back tendons and causes a great strain upon them just before the weight is shifted from the foot in locomotion. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• The nearer the army approached, the greater was the danger of the prisoners. —  The Peasant and the Prince
• Mankind demoralise each other by collision; and the larger the numbers crowded together, the greater will be the demoralisation, and this rule will hold good, whether in England or the United States, the Old World or the New That argument would hold good if it were not for our institutions, which are favourable to morality and virtue I consider them quite the contrary. —  Diary in America, Series Two
• The more wounds these bear on their cheeks the greater is their grief considered to be. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• The more I depended on them the greater was their dependableness, and the little girls grew more tender, the boys more chivalrous. —  The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach

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