What is "waterhorses"

Usage examples of "waterhorses".

Flanking the Prince of Waterhorses, two dour and doughty men in ragged plaid and thick calfhide each held a pike twined with dripping red filaments of spirogyra.

As Roxburgh and I now stand at the left and right shoulders of the King-Emperor, so, in macabre travesty, Huon the Hunter and the Each Uisge, the most malign of all waterhorses, once long ago flanked their leader.

They kept watch for signs of unseelie presences, wights of water such as drowners, waterhorses, or dripping fuaths.

Caitri, gripped by dread of Morragan's wrath, thought she saw the sunless countenance of the Prince of Waterhorses turn a whiter shade of pale.

The waters of Arcdur welled in their springs as the Prince of Waterhorses approached.

My wightish friend here did not, like the You-Know-What, the Prince of Waterhorses, tear its victims to pieces—after it rid itself of its burden, it used to set up a great nicker and a laugh and next be seen galloping and plunging off into the distance.

I had a German tutor at Dougal's house, a good one, who taught me Latin and Greek and such, and later when I went to France at eighteen—well, I studied history and philosophy and I saw that there was a good deal more to the world than the glens and the moors, and the waterhorses in the lochs.