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  • I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • The long-maned Englishman bought the Savannah home, above, in 2006 for $1.5 million to stay in when he and his wife visited their son, who attended college there.

    AIG's Sosin Buys, Ex-Bear Stearns CEO Schwartz Sells 2010

  • Then, as the moments went by, it came to me that the situation was analogous to the one in which I had approached the long-maned bull, my intention of clubbing obscured by fear until it became a desire to make him run.

    Chapter 32 2010

  • A strange expression came over the guide's face; strange even for a pop-eyed, long-maned, single-nostriled Ansionian.

    The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

  • The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine brightest as she increases.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • On an intricately carved chair, latinum-plated panels represent sleek, long-maned zabos drinking at a lake.

    Star Trek Michael Jan Friedman 1999

  • She was now a lovely full-breasted, long-maned, white-winged centaur filly with a deep brown hide and flowing tail.

    Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

  • When I carried my bucket out to empty in the stone sink in the Old Yard, I saw one of the armored carriages halted there with its long-maned team steaming and stamping, and the guards in their fur-trimmed helmets sheepishly accepting our smoking goblets of mulled wine.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • I looked down at his feet; he sat his long-maned stallion the same way.

    The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

  • The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine brightest as she increases.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

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