10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FETLOCKED»
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fetlocked in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fetlocked and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A journey to Marocco, in 1826
Out of forty or fifty brood mares fetlocked in the court near our house, I only saw
one that particularly struck me ; it was milk white, small, but of great strength and
fine proportious, with a head that in England we have no idea of, enlivened by
the ...
George Robert Beauclerk, 1828
15. 'English Dialect Dictionary,' xi. 486. Epitaphs, iii. 53, 415. Erlik Khan, v. 486.
Fair and making fair, viii. 47. February fill-dyke, v. 277. Fetlocked, x. 29.
Fieldnames, ii. 352; v. 396. Fir-cone in heraldry, i. 413. Fitzgerald (E.), two early
poems, iv.
Lobuo. "Fetlocked." — Mr. Lowell, in the " Camelot " edition of his ' English Poets,'
is made to say (p. 86) that Shakespeare had the advantage of using a language ''
to a certain extent esUiUished, but not yet fetlocked by dictionary and grammar ...
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The earl of Brecon, a tragedy, Faith's fraud, a tragedy, The ...
Prince ap Rhys ! He rides with head on high above his crupper : His greaves are
brass : upon his targe he bears A black bull chained and fetlocked. BARNABAS.
Bears a bull ? A mighty beast for such scene i.J THE EARL OF BRECON. 47.
Robert Eyres Landor, 1841
In which the Court Leet of Market Drayton entertains Colonel Robert Clive; and our hero makes an acquaintance.
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The Jacket: (Star-Rover)
Ihear again blackbirds andthrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells
spillingout fromthe oak woods and over the velvet turflike a creamingofblue water
. And most of all I remember a great, hairy fetlocked stallion, often led dancing,
sidling ...
7
The Green Flag and Other Stories
Then Foley's thoroughbred strained herself, as these slim-legged, dainty-
fetlocked thoroughbreds will do when the going is rough, and he had to take a
back seat. But the other four were still going strong, and they did four or five miles
down ...
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir, 2008
8
Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
Lowell's taste seems similar when he celebrates Shakespeare's language for the
freedom of its missteps: Shakespeare, he says, “found a language already to a
certain extent established, but not yet fetlocked by dictionary and grammar ...
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Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Although to a certain extent ""established" Shakespeare's English was "not yet
fetlocked by dictionary and grammar mongers" (157). Such an explanation for
Shakespeare's powerful — and unorthodox — language is intriguing when we ...
The ankles were as if fetlocked by massive golden hoops. The only exposed
flesh the bare feet, half a face and the knuckles of one bejewelled hand. Such
royal robes in a pauper's hut, such perspectives by incongruity! 'Costume
traditionel ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FETLOCKED»
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fetlocked is used in the context of the following news items.
Rural culture in Victorian England
Around the farmhouse were grouped the farm buildings; stables for the great stamping shaggy-fetlocked carthorses; barns with doors so wide ... «OUPblog, Mar 12»
Candid Cameron: Found in an attic, SamCam's rather risqué fashion …
Thoroughbred filly that she is, Sam's are a fine-fetlocked pair that would not look out of place passing the Cheltenham finishing post. Jealous? «Daily Mail, Mar 10»
Indian summer arrives in the form of a band to fall in love with
Probe as we might, though, we can't see any rotten molars on this fine-fetlocked gift pony. From the innocent/knowing euphoria of the ... «NME.com, Oct 09»
