Foal's ma

Usage examples of mare.

The mare had been kept astretch all night, and her heart was breaking under the strain.

Then he almost stepped off into space, and told the mare he was sorry for cussing it as a balker once he saw why the trail ran the way it did.

Alan pulled Bonner across his shoulders as if he were going to throw him with a flying mare, then got to his knees, to one foot, and then to both feet, grunting.

Eleanor was riding the long-backed bay mare Scapa, and Roger Clint was standing next to her on a chestnut with four of the longest and whitest stockings Brat had ever seen.

By the time he has tied the mare to the fir pole suspended between two stone uprights, Kadara and Brede have brushed away the faint white dust that seems to rise from the streets of Fairhaven and straightened their harnesses and swords.

Rhenna bridled and saddled Chaimon and the mare, and stuffed her saddlepack with provisions, leaving Derinoe the greater part.

Dickson had eaten his brose and caught the mare, and the two embarked in an ancient vehicle which must have carried goods as well as passengers, for it was floury with pease-meal and smelt strongly of wool and tar.

She was enough of a horsewoman to know that it was up to her to hold the mare steady and encourage her on.

And if you get a malformed foal, well, some years your mare might slip or be barren anyway.

Salamander was slow as a gander, The mare could have beat him the length of the straight, And old Manumission was out of condition, And most of the others were running off weight.

The red mare waded on through the press, exchanging greetings with stallions and mares, all of whom fell back respectfully before her, even as fellows behind them crowded forward.

Jan saw elders, mares and stallions in their prime, half-growns, colts and fillies, foals.

The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.

Others were just emerging from the long grass, mares leading, stallions trotting behind.

The northernmost reach of the Plain, which lay beyond the Hallow Hills, was warm enough, Calydor informed him, for mares to bear their young in any season.