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- noun Plural form of
sorrel .
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Examples
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Knee-deep in the wild oats of the hillside grazed two horses, chestnut-sorrels the pair of them, perfectly matched, warm and golden in the sunshine, their spring-coats a sheen of high-lights shot through with color-flashes that glowed like fiery jewels.
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At odd times during the week he examined numbers of chestnut sorrels, tried several, and was unsatisfied.
Chapter XI 2010
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We broke and ran, in a confusion of yelling swearing men and rearing horses; below on the slope a body of kneeling troopers with their sorrels behind them-Tom Custer's people-were firing revolver volleys at our pursuers, and behind me as I flew were shrieks of agony blending with the war-whoops.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Straight ahead below me, to the right of the long gully, the cavalry dead lay thick where Yates and Tom Custer and Smith had died with their troops-but far down there was still a group mounted on sorrels, and I could see the puffs of smoke from their pistols.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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But all I got was a whizzing of arrows and balls as I tore through the gap, rode down two braves who sprang to bar my path, cut at and missed a mounted fellow with a club, and then I was thundering down the right side of the gully towards the group on their sorrels-and they weren't there!
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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He wandered from stable to stable examining bays and roans, blue roans and piebalds, duns, sorrels, blacks, whites, grays and dapples, all mares or geldings.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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I knew the pair of sorrels he was referring to, Scythe and Sickle, and jumped at the chance to own my own team.
Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005
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