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 them 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. 1, 2022

They wanted to know where their bed was, what had been done with their rocking horse; and where did Joe sleep, and where had Ellen gone, and the cook?

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin