put in harness

Example Sentences

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He’s put in harness and becomes the member of a dogsled team hauling mail to prospectors drawn to the frigid fastness of the Yukon in the hunt for the yellow stuff.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2020

We can never expect that the Mississippi will be absolutely put in harness.

From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

No sooner were our animals put in harness, than the shaft mule reared and plunged, burst ropes and straps, and nearly flung the cart into the Missouri.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

When the dogs are put in harness in preparation for a journey they are always keen for the start.

From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon

I tried having him put in harness; the horse backed, and if one gave him a flick with the whip he jibbed, kicked, and positively lay down.

From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance