The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred HorseUniversity Press, 1905 - 538 pages |
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Africa Anazah ancestors ancient animals Arab Arab blood Arab horses Arabian Horse Asia Asiatic horse best horses black horses bred breed of horses bronze brown Burchell zebra Burchell's zebra callosities cavalry Celtic century B.C. chariot chestnut Connemara ponies crossing dark derived descended domestic horses dorsal dun-coloured Egypt Egyptian English thoroughbred Equidae Equus Equus caballus evidence Ewart fact Faroe ponies foals forehead Gauls Greece Greeks grey head hock callosities Homeric horseback hybrids Hyksos imported Indian indigenous horses Ireland Irish horses king later legs Libyan blood Libyan horse mane mares markings medieval Mongolian pony North African blood North African horse onager origin Prejvalsky horses probably Prof quagga race region riding Roman Scythians seen sires Somali zebra South Spain species stallions steed Strabo Suffolk Punch tail Tarpan Tencteri thoroughbred tribes Turcoman Upper Asiatic wheels whilst white horses wild ass wild horses yoke
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Page 209 - And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Page 210 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,- and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 209 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Page 204 - And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh : and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: -and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels.
Page 200 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 214 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. And so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
Page 204 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 210 - And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Page 211 - And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of all the earth.
Page 210 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse ; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns ; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.