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  • I soon gathered from him that he was a horsedealer from Bala, and that he had been out on the road with his servant to break a horse.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • A certain ecuyer, or horsedealer, belonging to the king, being one day under the hands of a barber, who happened to cut the head of a pimple on his face, he started up, and drawing his sword, wounded him desperately in the shoulder.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • ‘To be sure, to be sure,’ the horsedealer commented, dwelling on each syllable.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • Before a wide open stable-door stood the horsedealer himself — a tall, stout man no longer young, in a hareskin coat, with a raised turnover collar.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • (They never speak of a trotting horse as “being driven.”) “Oh, yes,” answered the horsedealer carelessly.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • ‘What are you looking at? there! oo!’ said the horsedealer with caressing menace, unable to refrain from admiring his horse himself.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • They suspected, among many others, the bullying, red-bearded horsedealer whose caravans ploughed through their fastnesses belly-deep in snow.

    Kim 2003

  • And, secondly, I had an acquaintance in Tula, a horsedealer; I might buy

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • After this the brothers went out to buy horses, and the monkey boy went with them and as he had no money he took nothing but a coil of rope; his brothers were ashamed to have him with them and drove him away, so he went on ahead and got first to the place where the horsedealer lived.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

  • Then the monkey boy went to the horsedealer and asked why the mare was lame and advised him to apply remedies.

    Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

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