River hot, shade burnt?

Usage examples of humber.

I realized that I had had no reason to notice the name Humber before seeing him and his horse and talking to his lad at Leicester, but if I had missed one name occurring three times, I could have missed others as well.

I could turn up at every course where Humber had a runner, looking seedier and seedier and more and more ready to take any job at all, and one day the lad-hungry stable would take the bait.

England on Christmas night feeling as physically and mentally fit as I had ever been in my life, and ready to take on the worst that Humber could dish out.

I hung over the rails by the saddling boxes and watched his head traveling lad saddle up, while Humber himself leaned on his knobbed walking stick and gave directions.

He kept giving wary, startled-animal glances at Humber, and staying out of his sight on the far side of the horse as much as possible.

But even granted that Humber only employed the dregs, his arrangements were very nearly inhuman.

The head lad, who did one horse himself, appeared to have very little authority, contrary to the practice in most other training stables, and it was Humber himself who gave the orders and who made sure they were carried out.

This glossy window dressing cost Humber nothing but an occasional gallon of paint and a certain amount of slave driving.

I had been allotted a quartet consisting of two racehorses that belonged, as far as I could make out, to Humber himself, and two hunters.

While racing was suspended, Humber could dope no horses, and there was no opportunity for me to see what difference it made to his routine when the racing was scheduled for any of the five courses with long run-ins.

With Humber and Jud Wilson away at the races, though, and with Cass gone home to his midday meal, I reckoned I could go into the office to search while the rest of the lads were eating.

Mickey, I thought, who belonged to Adams, but neither Adams nor Humber nor Cass had let Jerry know it.

Granted Humber was away at Nottingham races and had not spent long in the office in the morning, but the tidiness was basic, not temporary.

Wednesday Humber ran another horse, and I missed my lunch to have a look inside his house while he was away.

It had been an injustice to think Humber might turn tail and leave me there alone: he behaved as coldly as ever, as if fear was quite beyond his imagination.