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  • A negro followed them, mounted on a raw-bone pony, and carrying his master's Enfield rifle.

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • A true raw-bone he was; and to me, as I casually met his gaze, looked to be obstinate, secretive and small minded.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

  • Over the field, from Fulkerson on the left to the broken centre and the withdrawing troops came a raw-bone sorrel urged to a furious gallop; upon it a figure all dusk in the dusk, a Cromwell-Quixote of a man, angered now to a degree, with an eye like steel and a voice like ice.

    The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

  • He rode a sorel horse -- a great, wiry raw-bone, with a lunge like a moose, and legs that struck the ground with the precision of a piston-rod.

    The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Damascus, when Dicky saw nearing them a heavily-laden boat, a cross between a Thames house-boat and an Italian gondola, being drawn by one poor raw-bone -- raw-bone in truth, for there was on each shoulder a round red place, made raw by the unsheathed ropes used as harness.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • He rode a sorel horse -- a great, wiry raw-bone, with a lunge like a moose, and legs that struck the ground with the precision of a piston-rod.

    The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • He rode a sorel horse -- a great, wiry raw-bone, with a lunge like a moose, and legs that struck the ground with the precision of a piston-rod.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The boat had now reached a point opposite the mudirieh, its stopping-place; and the raw-bone, reeking with sweat and blood, stood still and trembled, its knees shaking with the strain just taken off them, its head sunk nearly to the ground.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Damascus, when Dicky saw nearing them a heavily-laden boat, a cross between a Thames house-boat and an Italian gondola, being drawn by one poor raw-bone -- raw-bone in truth, for there was on each shoulder a round red place, made raw by the unsheathed ropes used as harness.

    Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Damascus, when Dicky saw nearing them a heavily-laden boat, a cross between a Thames house-boat and an Italian gondola, being drawn by one poor raw-bone -- raw-bone in truth, for there was on each shoulder a round red place, made raw by the unsheathed ropes used as harness.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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