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

You will be put in harness soon, colt, and perhaps you, too, will be sold.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

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

Ah, one must be caught young, and put in harness early, to lead such an existence as that and be content!

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

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