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How to use withers in a sentence

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He leapt the distance that separated him and the gang's leader, grabbing the horse's withers as the animal reared.
It is not anti-Semitic, but it is about anti-Semitism and how the prejudice withers its perpetrators as well as their victims.
The plant's foliage withers back during the summer while pretty, orange-red berries appear in the fall.
El Condor Pasa, age seven, and End Sweep, 11, died in July after respectively suffering intestinal torsion and fractured withers.
The delicate anicham flower withers when merely smelled, but an unwelcome look is enough to wither a guest's heart.
Otherwise, it either withers away or entangles the individual lives of the couple in a terrible way.
Whatever he touches withers in his grasp and sinks from view into a muck of despair, negativism and nihilism.
The majority is most likely above the size of 14.2 hands, measured at the withers, qualifying them actually as horses.
The sheltie pattern specifies that shelties may be no smaller than 10 and no greater than 13 inches at the withers.
Horses differ greatly in their oral cavity, and that difference is not proportional to height at the withers.
I start at the top of his neck and move down his withers and along his back.
Horses are measured from the bottom of the hoof to the withers, or the shoulders.
Depending on the horse's comfort level, I might want to start on the shoulder and move up to the withers.
She was then tossed across a horse's withers and cried out involuntarily as her belly slammed into the horse's back.
As you approach the center of the circle, swing your primary line so that it is behind the horse's withers.
The hands of an intermediate rider move only about six to eight inches in front of the horse's withers in a short crest release.
In standing position, the withers are lower than the loins, also, while the body appears pear-shaped when viewed from above.
He stood behind a huge black stallion and looked over the horse's withers.
The forequarters have flat, somewhat sloping shoulders and high withers.
The topline from the withers slopes slightly towards the rear, forming an almost straight line.
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Don't imagine that my withers are wrung by what you say, for I agree with almost every word of it.
As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed.
Francesco bared his head, and bent to the withers of his horse in courteous greeting.
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
As this spathe withers away, the flower-stalk continues to grow, and its little greenish-yellow blossoms become brown.
Poll evil is a fistula upon the poll, and in no sense differs from fistulous withers except in location.
On these accounts, a seton passing through the base of the ulcer in poll-evil and fistulous withers is so beneficial.
It was a judgment which wrung my Harrovian withers, but of which I could not dispute the truth.
And the Waler's rider, as if startled by the cry, suddenly and convulsively slashed the animal's withers.
As soon as the fern is firmly established, the prothallium withers away.
Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount.
Ah,' said the Englishman at last, rubbing his pony's damp withers with his whip-butt.
Behold how, beginning with the discovery of printing, architecture withers away little by little, becomes lifeless and bare.
I observed that it was particularly high in the Cruz or withers.
The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers.
Half fainting, she allowed him to swing her to the withers of his horse.
How does the height at the withers compare with the height at the croup?
Then it withers, wilts, and drops off, as most of them have already done.
And Tresler felt himself sliding, saddle and all, over her withers!
He clutched the bristling withers of the barasingh with his right hand, held the torch away with his left, and stepped out of the shrine into the desperate night.
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