horse-races

From this point I observed the Indians running horse-races and otherwise enjoying themselves behind the line they had held against me the day before.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Thus we see Andrew Glickman ' s photographs taken inside New York subway cars mundane images for New Yorkers, perhaps, but Mr. Glickman lives in Maryland and British photographer Martin Parr ' s snaps from Fashion Week in Moscow and the Melbourne Cup horse-races in Australia.

Photo-Op: Road Warriors 2010

It's also a contrast with other companies that have had horse-races for the top spot, such as General Electric.

Xerox Succession a 'Model' Case 2009

In an off-year without many campaign horse-races, Boston is hitting an electoral cross-roads.

Joe Trippi: Boston's Big Choice 2009

So I beg you to come over with all convenient speed, for fear of her falling a prey to some sharper, many such being to be found; especially at horse-races, and so forth.

Camilla 2008

Athenians now restored the games and for the first time introduced horse-races.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

When The Bloody Assize was at its most dismal height, the King was diverting himself with horse-races in the very place where Mrs. Lisle had been executed.

A Child's History of England 2007

There were horse-races and trotting-matches; a trotting bull warranted to beat the fastest horse in Michigan; and bands of music.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

When the Odrysians themselves returned, they fell to burying their own dead, quaffing copious draughts of wine in their honour and holding horse-races; but for the future they deemed it advisable to camp along with the Hellenes.

Hellenica 2007

She went on to tell me about the balls at Dublin, the banquets at the Castle, the horse-races at the Phoenix, the ridottos and routs, until I became quite eager to join in those pleasures; and I only felt grieved to think that my position would render secrecy necessary, and prevent me from being presented at the Court, of which the Fitzsimonses were the most elegant ornaments.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006