HORSE in Classic Quotes

1  There ain't nobody like Ma with a horse.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  When they had rounded the curve of the dusty road that hid them from Tara, Brent drew his horse to a stop under a clump of dogwood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  Gerald did not see his daughter in the shadow of the trees, and he drew rein in the road, patting his horse's neck with approbation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  He came up the hill at a gallop on his thick-barreled, long-legged hunter, appearing in the distance like a boy on a too large horse.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  Every moment she expected to hear the pounding of his horse's hooves and see him come charging up the hill at his usual breakneck speed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their Europe.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were so scared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  Why, I'll bet you Ma is still so excited about the new horse that she'll never even realize we're home again till she sits down to supper tonight and sees Boyd.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  There's nobody in the County sits a horse better than Ashley," said Scarlett, furious at the slur of effeminacy flung on Ashley, "nobody except maybe his father.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yelling enthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  She was hot-tempered and easily plagued by the frequent scrapes of her four sons, and while no one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, she felt that a lick now and then didn't do the boys any harm.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  The big brute--he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to come over and see him right away--he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here and he'd trampled two of Ma's darkies who met the train at Jonesboro.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  He's not queer like the Calverts who'd gamble everything they have on a horse, or the Tarletons who turn out a drunkard or two in every litter, or the Fontaines who are hot-headed little brutes and after murdering a man for a fancied slight.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up to full strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter in the County with the one exception of Angus MacIntosh, had contributed money to completely outfit the Troop, horse and man.

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