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  • Debts mounted, much of his beloved Neverland Ranch was sold off and he would come to depend on the kindnesses of burnoosed strangers far from home, agog at the idea of an icon of Western Pop being even a little bit beholden to them.

    The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson 2009

  • Debts mounted, much of his beloved Neverland Ranch was sold off and he would come to depend on the kindnesses of burnoosed strangers far from home, agog at the idea of an icon of Western Pop being even a little bit beholden to them.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • It sank deeper into the sand under his weight, and irritably settling again he peered out at the stallion galloping across the expanse of dune below him, its burnoosed rider clinging against the scouring blast of air from the wind machines.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Later, in "Anabase", Perse assembled fragments of an imaginary epic, with the clicking teeth of frontier gates, barren wadis with the froth of poisonous lakes, horsemen burnoosed in sandstorms, the opposite of cool Caribbean mornings, yet not necessarily a contrast any more than some young brown archer at

    Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture 1997

  • As the sun flung its last rays across the darkening heavens, a tall, burnoosed foreigner reined in before the closed gate and demanded entrance.

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • A burnoosed, turbaned Arab standing inside salaamed profoundly.

    Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • A horseman, white burnoosed, rode out through the gateway of the village.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 1918

  • Creeping silently toward the sentries, a white-burnoosed figure approached the shadows at one end of the hut.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 1918

  • Creeping silently toward the sentries, a white-burnoosed figure approached the shadows at one end of the hut.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • A horseman, white burnoosed, rode out through the gateway of the village.

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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