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Definition of Tarpans
1. tarpan [n] - See also: tarpan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarpans
Literary usage of Tarpans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse by William Ridgeway (1905)
"When the reader bears in mind the evidence obtained by Colonel Hamilton Smith in
1814—that there were no pure tarpans within the Russian frontiers—he will ..."
2. The Book of Nature and the Book of Man: In which is Accepted as the Type of by Charles Ottley Groom Napier (1870)
"The Muzin or feral horses, have larger heads and shorter necks than the tarpans.
These show a resemblance to the big-headed nations who tame them ; who have ..."
3. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1887)
"The wild tarpans in the East have this instinct ; and so it is, ... The average
height of respect to the tarpans scraping away the Falkland horses is said ..."
4. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"These hardy animals, resulted from the mixing of escaped domestic horses with
the tarpans, and in spite of the way the young have been slaughtered by the ..."
5. The Desert World by Arthur Mangin (1872)
"With the tarpans of the northern Steppes it is thick, flaky, and frizzled. ...
The troops of the tarpans are subdivided into groups of twenty to thirty ..."
6. Points of the Horse: A Treatise on the Conformation, Movements, Breeds and by Matthew Horace Hayes (1904)
"... sky's horse. tarpans were ... tarpans are small and sturdy ponies, whose shape
more or less closely resembles that of the ..."
7. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"The wild tarpans in the East have this instinct; and so it is, ... The average
height of respect to the tarpans scraping away the Falkland horses is said to ..."
8. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1906)
"... Louisa Fletcher (Mrs. Newton Booth Tarkington). Compensation; poem. Scrib. M.
40:534. N. •o«. tarpans. Sot' Horses. Tarpon. After tarpon with a camera. ..."
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