horse
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Another woman posted a photo of her horse and wrote: “My four-legged friend got in trouble and they came to his rescue with an impressive level of ingenuity and strength, and I’m so grateful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
They dissected Laura Owens’s claim that she was carrying Echard’s twins and grew suspicious when a photo surfaced of her at a horse show with no apparent baby bump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a Trojan horse."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
I grip Caesar’s good hand, leaping from wagon to horse.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
According to the show's curators, elements of Flaxman's sketches can be seen in Turner's painting called Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus – Homer's Odyssey, including outlines of horses in the sunset and the shadow of a cyclops.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But her big passion was for horses, with her Instagram showing the young woman proudly riding or training them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
He also broke horses and rode bucking broncos in ranch rodeos.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“In New York City, they would have been like, ‘Hold your horses, Sam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
‘It’s not like the old days when they’d be sitting there for hours on end, like horses put out to grass.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
They horsed through the phases, giving everything but getting nothing.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
They shaved outside, cooked barbecues, horsed around on the bus to the games.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020
She began attending her older brother’s ice hockey games in Maryland not long after she was born and would watch, fascinated, from a young age while other siblings horsed around.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019
The boys horsed around with a sapling, pulling on its branches and laughing in the sunlight.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
But the main strength of the Rohirrim that remained horsed and able to fight, some three thousand under the command of Elfhelm, should waylay the West Road against the enemy that was in Anórien.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In between spurts of dancing and horsing around, the girls hustled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
"I was always in trouble for horsing around . . . acting came second nature to me."
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022
Think of Eddie Van Halen and Chet Atkins horsing around on the fretboard, or Young Thug rapping in helium hi-def, or Janet Jackson punctuating an immaculate melody with laughter.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
Videos circulating online appear to show bearded Taliban fighters laughing and horsing around on amusement park rides and in an indoor gym.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
Back at cabin eleven, everybody was talking and horsing around, waiting for dinner.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
