rocking horse
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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
"My nana and grandad, who have passed away, used to have a rocking horse so I thought that would be a lovely memory for her tree."
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
She stacks up miniature versions of banal furnishings — a chair, a sofa, a rocking horse — glued one on top of the other.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023
Among the items lost to the fire were original paintings, photographs from her childhood and an antique rocking horse that, according to family lore, Richard Nixon rode on as a baby.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Spacious, clean, and bright, the long room had a pair of beds, shelves crowded with children’s books, freestanding wardrobes, tidy dressers, a unicorn rocking horse, multiple toy chests, and a hen in a cage.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
