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  • There was another with three "spavins" and a "ring-bone" on the remaining leg.

    When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

  • All through the herd, spavins and bots and heaves to be treated or disguised.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • All through the herd, spavins and bots and heaves to be treated or disguised.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Well, Ma fainted when I said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Well, Ma fainted when I said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Well, Ma fainted when I said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Well, Ma fainted when I said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Well, Ma fainted when I said that about spavins, but I stood firm and Grandma backed me up.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • This may prevent the examiner from mistaking rough hocks for spavin enlargements or "a pair" of spavins for rough hocks.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • From my long years of experience in all classes of horses, I am frank to say to-day that I would not be without a thoroughbred Arabian stallion on my place, and journalists who inform their readers that they "are liable to splints, ringbones, and spavins," give themselves away to all intelligent readers and breeders as exceedingly superficial in matter of horses; for ringbones and spavins are positively unknown among the Arabs.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

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