Pomposo

Pomposo [Footnote: Pomposo: the writer's horse.] in the hollow, not only revealed the cause of his former terror, but decided me to take another direction.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

After a moment's hesitation he concluded to go with me, although I am satisfied, from a certain impish look in his eye, that he fully understood and rather enjoyed the fright of Pomposo.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Yet here was Pomposo shivering from his arched neck to his sensitive haunches, his very flanks pulsating with terror.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

But I had gone only a few steps, when I heard a quick trot behind me; and poor Pomposo, with every fibre tingling with fear, was at my heels.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

"Blossom Farm" was in the habit of entertaining two gentlemen, namely, the "Count Ferdinand" and the "Baron Pomposo," suspected enemies of the cause, and possible traitors to the Continental army.

Thankful Blossom Bret Harte 1869

After a moment's hesitation, he concluded to go with me, although I am satisfied, from a certain impish look in his eye, that he fully understood and rather enjoyed the fright of Pomposo.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

Or the grave Dorotea would whisper: 'Convey to this Senor Presumptuous Pomposo that the daughters of Guitierrez do not ride alone with strangers!'

Maruja Bret Harte 1869

Pomposo in the hollow not only revealed the cause of his former terror, but decided me to take another direction.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

He uniformly spoke of him in terms which, had they been deserved, would have justified Churchill's 'immane Pomposo' as an appellation of _scorn_; since if his person was huge, and his manners pompous and violent, so were his talents vast and powerful, in a degree from which only prejudice and resentment could withhold respect.

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

'Spigot, this wine's corked,' observed Sponge, as old Pomposo entered the room.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833