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Judging by the size of the sword she was called upon to examine this Friesian hero must have been a giant even amongst his own giant-like race.

Beautiful as the Friesian was, he scarcely noticed it, his thoughts spinning like a whirligig.

The talk was general during supper, ranging from bomb outrages to the Friesian landscape, the easiest routes to Holland, and vague, very vague, replies on Mr.

Emily met them in turn: Reilike, the eldest, named after a Friesian grandmother, with her husband Sieme and their three children, Ludolf, Tilde and Iwert, the eldest eight years old, the youngest five.

Antonia was a Friesian, not Dutch, and that Friesian girls on the whole were good-looking but rather big.

She was standing in front of a case containing the gold and silver ornaments worn by Friesian women of earlier times, when there was a murmur of voices below and a step on the stair.

Sappha stared at the fine specimen of a Friesian clock hanging on the wall before her.

Friesians, I distantly remembered, were lavish milk producers, I inched a wincingly careful way round the vast throng of big animals until I came to a large docile-looking Friesian cow with a satisfied calf lying beside her.

She made no sound, although the old house creaked and sighed all around her and the tick took of the great Friesian clock in the hall dripped with soft deliberation into the silence.

Horses of the Friesian breed, larger and heavier than the native ponies, which had been auctioned off nearly a generation earlier when the cavalry left the wall, mated to the also dark-coated Fell Ponies of the north, producing a wiry and strong mount, able to carry a man wearing chain armour.

Lyndon turned with the fine Friesian mare as it was walked in a large circle by the gate.

Doctor said as Leela warily confronted the large Friesian blocking her path.

At a point eighty miles from the site, between the Friesian Islands and Hull, there was a red diamond in the middle of the ocean.

My bull man would be thrilled to have the elephant, and my equestrian director, as you noticed, is enamored of those Friesian horses.

There was a crashing through the trees and bushes away to the right, but then a mottled, startled Friesian burst out near them like a pantomime cow, head up, legs comically uncertain.