Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockhorses
Literary usage of Cockhorses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon by George Augustus Sala (1859)
"The famous cockhorses of such high blood and mettle, that the blood has broken
out all over their skins in an eruption of crimson spots; so full of spirit ..."
2. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteeth Century: How by Graham Everitt (1893)
"... the eccentric women, the podgy " cockhorses," the wonderful dogs that would
have put in an appearance in the various sporting scenes and incidents which ..."
3. From Waterloo to the Peninsula: Four Months' Hard Labor in Belgium, Holland by George Augustus Sala (1867)
"There is a little lass in the centre, her face radiant, her arms full of the
dolls and cockhorses which the kindly Sint Nikolaas has placed in her tiny shoe ..."
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