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  • The traffic jam continued for another couple of km, and then we found its cause: a jack-knifed and battered horse-box, with another horse standing calmly beside the road.

    President Kaczyński burkesworks 2010

  • Donas-his name meant "demon," and was in no way meant as flattery-was in a horse-box to himself at the far end of the stable, safely separated by an empty stall from the nearest neighboring horses.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Very glad your horses got through the horse-box trial and the colic OK.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Where Ideas Come From: Life 2010

  • At 5am, a horse-box rolled up to Henderson's yard and out stepped Istabraq, who carried McManus's colours to victory in three Champion Hurdles from 1998 to 2000.

    Champion hurdler Binocular in excellent form ahead of comeback race Chris Cook at Lambourn 2010

  • Within twenty minutes they had the horses loaded into the horse-box.

    THE TALE OF THE TURKMENI STALLION Alex Allan 2009

  • I called Peter, and we clambered into the truck next our horse-box.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Landwehr in each truck and Peter and I in a horse-box.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Looking round him in the twilight of the horse-box, Vronsky unconsciously took in once more in a comprehensive glance all the points of his favorite mare.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • “Quiet, darling, quiet!” he said, patting her again over her hind-quarters; and with a glad sense that his mare was in the best possible condition, he went out of the horse-box.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • He opened the door, and Vronsky went into the horse-box, dimly lighted by one little window.

    Anna Karenina 2003

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