horsedom

For example, if I write about legal recognition of same-sex marriages in the cotext of the 14th Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a really bad idea to ask, What about cousin marriage and sex with horses, in my experience always betraying an utter ignorance of cousin marriage and the great, hairy, muddy reality of horsedom?

Enforcing Manners, Tumblr Shuts Down 5 Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

There's been a discussion raging on a horse forum about confirmation vs. conformation - probably one of the most misspelled words in horsedom.

Say What? 2009

For example, if I write about legal recognition of same-sex marriages in the cotext of the 14th Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a really bad idea to ask, What about cousin marriage and sex with horses, in my experience always betraying an utter ignorance of cousin marriage and the great, hairy, muddy reality of horsedom?

Enforcing Manners, Tumblr Shuts Down 5 Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

While I am confessing debts, let me mention John Napier who created the tough, bright masks of horsedom; Andy Phillips who lit them superbly; and above all, Claude Chagrin, who animated them.

EQUUS Peter Shaffer 1974

While I am confessing debts, let me mention John Napier who created the tough, bright masks of horsedom; Andy Phillips who lit them superbly; and above all, Claude Chagrin, who animated them.

EQUUS Peter Shaffer 1974

Not that there was going to be any change in the race, not that the old preacher had any chance, driving as he did this bundle of ribs and ugliness, and hitched to such a cart -- but that he dared try it at all, and against the swells of horsedom.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

So they let Joe out of his stall and showed the Deputy how deserving he was of the finest mate that could be in horsedom.

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

And so it is that one portion of the inhabitants of horsedom, pointing to the Shetlander, cry out that "the convicts have too much food, they are up to the eyes in luxuries;" another portion, pointing to the dray horse, say "the convicts are starved, and are dying of hunger;" whilst a third answers both by pointing to the farm horse and saying that "he can do the work and satisfy the law.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

Or again, suppose we were to take a race-horse, a dray-horse, a farmer's horse, a broken-down hack, and a Shetland horse -- for these more nearly resemble the various classes of convicts -- and say to them, "Horses, you have all offended the laws of horsedom, and stand fully convicted of clover stealing.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous