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Cockhorse   Listen
noun
Cockhorse  n.  
1.
A child's rocking-horse. "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross."
2.
A high or tall horse. (R.)





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"Cockhorse" Quotes from Famous Books



... floods of ink Must drown thy graces, which white papers drink, Even as thy beauties did the foul black seas; I must describe the hell of thy decease, That heaven did merit: yet I needs must see Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry Still, still usurp, with long lives, loves, and lust, The seats of Virtue, cutting short as dust Her dear-bought issue: ill to worse converts, And tramples in the blood of all deserts. Night close and silent now goes fast before The captains and the soldiers to the shore, ...
— Hero and Leander and Other Poems • Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman
... of heroes: but this, very likely, is nothing more than a fit of Republicanism in the nursery, and a deposition of the leading doll for lack of variety in him. That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority. Meantime the exhibition of a hero whom circumstances overcome, and who does not weep or ask you for a tear, who continually forfeits attractiveness by declining to better his own fortunes, must run the chances of a novelty during ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


Words linked to "Cockhorse" :   toy, plaything


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