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Usage examples of equus.

My grandfather had always called him Equus, because he was strong as a horse.

Assuming it to be Equus, who had gone to buy lamp oil, I did not even look around.

We made small talk for a while, and I was gratified to see that even Equus was not too fond of his brother by marriage.

I mentioned the bargain I had struck with Cuno, and Equus merely nodded, neither approving the bargain nor condemning it.

Cuno had gone, I asked Equus about him and learned that he had drifted into town a few years earlier and worked for several months with the old wheelwright whose business he now owned.

He was good at what he did, Equus told me, but he drank too much and had beaten Phoebe cruelly on several occasions.

I asked him immediately if I had made a foolish bargain with the man, but Equus assured me that the bargain would be met and honoured.

I were sitting in one of the local taverns frequented by the garrison centurions, waiting for Equus to come and join us and watching the antics of some of the other customers in the place.

My route took me past the smithy, and I told myself, on a drink-inspired impulse, that Equus was probably in there, working late.

She had escaped from him and run here to Equus for protection, and Equus had calmed her, given her some blankets, locked her inside the smithy for safety and gone looking for Cuno.

I pulled her against me, slipping easily up into the lubricated heat of her just as Equus came to the door of the smithy.

We froze, not daring to move or make a sound, and I almost giggled, thinking how ludicrous we would look to Equus, standing there like a statue of fornicators.

I had promised, and managed to transfer it to her without Equus being any the wiser.

But Cuno, apparently, had not been too drunk to remember what Equus had sworn to do to him if he ever maltreated Phoebe again.

We presumed that he had fled to escape Equus, but were unable to prove anything, and no one was inclined to dedicate valuable time to searching for the fellow.