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Examples
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Thought those mules he calls race-horses would win the Kentucky Derby.
The Christmas Thief Mary Higgins Clark 2004
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Thought those mules he calls race-horses would win the Kentucky Derby.
The Christmas Thief Mary Higgins Clark 2004
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Thought those mules he calls race-horses would win the Kentucky Derby.
The Christmas Thief Mary Higgins Clark 2004
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Thought those mules he calls race-horses would win the Kentucky Derby.
Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set Mary Higgins Clark 2000
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When we scientifically breed our race-horses and our draught-horses, we make for life abundant.
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I was glancing about at the lithographs of race-horses and prized-fighters and over-dressed women daringly showing three inches of ankle, when the dean of American bartenders emerged from the back room.
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Independently wealthy, he had been loath to dissipate his energies in the pink teas and freak dinners of society, while actresses, race-horses, and kindred diversions had left him cold.
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It was by the same method that men, aping her, bred race-horses and cucumbers.
Chapter 38 2010
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One was dressed like a clown, and performed funny antics, and the others leaped over the spoons and dishes and ran around the table like race-horses, and turned hand-springs and were so sprightly and amusing that they kept the company in one roar of merry laughter.
Love Letters 2010
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Financial success allowed him to establish the Hermitage, a plantation near Nashville on which he raised cotton and bred race-horses.
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