horsehood

Consequently, the colts which left Severndale were in the pride and glory of their young horsehood, and this year they were a most promising lot.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

Why should that singing horse commonly called the nightingale, or that climbing horse hitherto known as the cat, fall down and worship you because of your horsehood?

The Crimes of England 1905

"Have you no respec 'whatever fer the dignity o' our common horsehood?" the yellow horse squealed.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

And all the sharp arguments that go to cover their membership, as such, in the church, with absurdity, or turn it into derision, are just such arguments as the inventors could raise with equal point, to ridicule the horsehood and sheephood of the young animals just referred to.

Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

He was still in the intermediate stage between horse and donkey, a natural mule still struggling up aspiringly toward perfect horsehood.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Rather [in itself it consists] of what is horsehood only. [

The Medieval Problem of Universals Klima, Gyula 2008

Accustomed to this from the time when they first emerged from colthood into horsehood, the aged steeds, like many aged senators of their day, were determined enemies to any thing like innovation on the long established customs of their caste; and although, unlike the said senators, they were made to bear all the burdens of the state, still did they not suffer themselves to be driven out of the sluggish habits in which sluggish animals, of every description, seem to feel themselves privileged to indulge.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824

Accustomed to this from the time when they first emerged from colthood into horsehood, the aged steeds, like many aged senators of their day, were determined enemies to any thing like innovation on the long established customs of their caste; and although, unlike the said senators, they were made to bear all the burdens of the state, still did they not suffer themselves to be driven out of the sluggish habits in which sluggish animals, of every description, seem to feel themselves privileged to indulge.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

"I rely on my simple rights -- the inalienable rights o 'my unfettered horsehood.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Not havin 'earned his board, an' talks smooth to us abaout ripplin 'brooks an' wavin 'grass, an' his high-toned, pure-souled horsehood, which don't hender him sheddin 'women an' childern, an 'fallin' over the dash onter men.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900