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The former are leggy, high-headed, high-stepping, flashy horses with a lot of nervous energy.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

If I had to chose a single exhibit to convey the mystery and power of this exhibition, it would be a group of 15 bald, high-headed jadeite and serpentine male figurines seven inches tall, all facing a leader-spokesman made of granite — one thinks of Christ and his apostles — who stands against a fence made of six 10-inch-long celts carved of serpentine.

Mysteries Carved in Stone David Littlejohn 2010

“You know, best thing to do with that high-headed horse is shoot him.”

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

He should go and stop being so high-headed about his achievements. 5th place acceptable to Newcastle, but top 4 is where teams like Newcastle aspire to.

jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2007

The tall young elf nodded greeting to him, a lord by the look of him, high-headed and comfortable.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

Sulla had walked dry-eyed and high-headed in the throng which escorted Quintus Gavius Myrto out of the city to the burning place, thrown his bunch of roses into the fierce fire, and paid a silver denarius to the undertaker as his share.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Eliza, high-headed and serene, felt like an Elisha donning a master's mantle because she was following in her teacher's footsteps.

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

[W. 5622.] manes more than big, bold [a] and leaping, with sack-like, distended nostrils, high-headed, towering, over-powering, wonderful, so that they shook with their ramping the thick shell of the sad-sodded earth.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

They rode alert, high-headed like their horses, and there was about them a suggestion of the patience which carries a man endlessly after one purpose, and a suggestion of the eagerness, too, which makes him strike swift and hard and surely when the time for action comes.

Riders of the Silences John Frederick

Two horses ... under his chariot; they are long-tailed, broad-hoofed, broad above, narrow beneath, high-headed, great of curve, thin-mouthed, with distended nostrils.

Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday