trace-horse

The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself drove the remaining pair.

Anna Karenina 2003

Indians make expeditions into the desert, each one having yoked together three camels, placing a female in the middle and a male like a trace-horse to draw by each side.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

He had done so more than once before and was not above doing it, so much so that a report once spread at school that Krassotkin played horses with the little lodgers at home, prancing with his head on one side like a trace-horse.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

That principle is undeniable when the horse is a delicately paced little bronze horse from fifth-century Olympia, its mane ornately worked as becomes a victor, its bit and bridle intricately cast to show that it is the left trace-horse of a four-horse chariot team.

Athena's Magic Wills, Garry 1992

_ An allusion to the [Greek: seiraphoros], or side trace-horse, in a chariot-race.

The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles

Mr. Ormiston's servant mounted the trace-horse and Thomas sat on the front of the cart, and the cavalcade started to toil through the snow.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

To obtain this sand the Indians make expeditions into the desert, each one having yoked together three camels, placing a female in the middle and a male like a trace-horse to draw by each side.

The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

While the trace-horse is being harnessed, its legs are hobbled; as soon as they are set free the chaise goes flying to the devil, so that one holds one's breath.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

But the other twain reared this way and that, and the yoke creaked, and the reins were confused on them, when their trace-horse lay in the dust.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

The coachman rode back on the trace-horse, and Levin himself drove the remaining pair.

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869