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Orace is the mule companion of Flip the Frog in such early 1930s cartoons as The Village Specialist, Spooks, and The Milkman. Orace is a lazy, foul-mouthed character who is meant to serve Flip as a draft animal, but doesn't always do a very good job of it.
Orace was the creation of Ub Iwerks, who had already created a similar-looking character, the horse Horace Horsecollar, for Walt Disney a couple of years earlier.
Category:Ub Iwerks Studio series and characters
Usage examples of "orace".
Special attention was paid to the cockney accent spoken by Orace throughout the book.
A moment later a frantic silhouette appeared at the top of the tor, and the voice of Orace hailed down an anxious query.
The Saint shrugged and turned to Orace, who had been fuming and fidgeting around him.
Nevertheless, Orace, entering the sitting room with a tray precisely half a minute later, found the Saint stretched out in an armchair.
The Saint, via Orace, who had drunk beer in the public house by the quay to some advantage, already knew the names and habits of this oligarchy.
And it might save you a longish walk and a lot of trouble if I told you that Orace and I sleep in watches, turn and turn about, so that any of your pals who call round in the hope of being able to catch us dapping will have to be very fly.
Saint found Orace in the lane, curled up under the hedge, philosophically smoking his pipe.
Although he and Orace never relaxed their vigilance, taking it in turns to sleep and keep watch, they were left in peace.
He had taken the first watch, and so the sun was shining gaily through the embrasures when he awoke for the second time, to find Orace setting a cup of tea down by his bedside.
However, he skipped and shadow-boxed in the sun with especial vigour, and finished up with Orace splashing a couple of buckets of water over him, what time the Saint lay on the grass drawing deep grateful breaths and blessing his perfect condition.
But Orace, after one disapproving glance round, brazenly continued with his task, as though no amount of objections to his intrusion could stop him enforcing punctuality.
Saint and Orace, as he had the right to do, though it would gall his soul to have to make his arrest with their assistance.
Already it was getting late, and Aunt Agatha had to be interviewed and a light dinner bolted before Orace arrived to take her back to the Saint punctually for the attack they had planned.
That was the ship that the Saint and Orace and she were scheduled to capture by themselves, and the monumental audacity of the scheme made her smile.
There was a light in the embrasure which she knew served for a window in the dining-drawing-smoking-sitting room, but when she peeped in she saw only Orace laying dinner.