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  • And then, about ten days after I had started galloping her, a couple of Ruski staff captains jingled into the courtyard one morning, to be followed by a large horse-sled, and shortly afterwards comes the Count's major-domo to East and me, presenting his apologies, and chivvying us off to our rooms.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Suspended under the roof of the barn was a huge horse-sled, spun with cobwebs and dust.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • The horse-sled glided swiftly along over the crisp white road.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • Thereupon we picked him up like a log of wood, and laid him on his horse-sled.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • Halstead and the old Squire loaded them on the long horse-sled, -- sixteen cakes to the load, -- drew the ice home, and packed it away in the new ice-house.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • Here our new batteau was to be carried over the first portage of two miles, round the Grand Falls of the Penobscot, on a horse-sled made of saplings, to jump the numerous rocks in the way; but we had to wait a couple of hours for them to catch the horses, which were pastured at a distance, amid the stumps, and had wandered still farther off.

    The Maine Woods 1858

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