Looking for sentences and phrases with the word spavined? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
I hated hated hated jittery nineties-videos editing, a tic which spavined what could have been a fantastically rich artform.
Anne had rented an old, falling-down wooden house in Ann Arbor and furnished it with broken-backed armchairs and spavined couches.
It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs.
A spavined nag whose blued flanks were singed and smoking.
He was mounted on a mangy, shovel-headed horse so spavined that it should have been unable to support his improbable bulk.
Examples from Classical Literature
I want a man who can look over a bond issue, or whatever it is, and tell me at a glance whether it's spavined or wind-broken.
He got down off the bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse, and came in.
And they're all tryin' to borry money off'm me and sell me spavined hosses.
At a little distance grazed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own.
He rode on a bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse.
Look, driven one leg to death, and spavined the other for life, and now wears out bone legs by the cord.
If he bought a horse, it was sure to prove spavined or wind-broken.
The position assumed by the spavined horse is often characteristic.
Say, wouldst thou rise with a lantern jaw and a spavined knee?
Alfred was provided with a rickety buggy and a spavined horse.
I can size a player up as quick as a horse buyer can a spavined nag.
My house is a decayed house, and the Jew squats an the window sill the owner, Spavined in some estaminet of Antwerp, Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
