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Definition of One-horse
1. Adjective. Small and remote and insignificant. "Passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-horse
Literary usage of One-horse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"Mr. Ashurst will brings in one horse. - Mr. Ralfe Ashton will brings in two
hundred and ... Mr. Hodges will bringe in two horses, or one horse and fifty ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
""The testimony Is uncontradicted that 1000 pounds of lint cotton Is the standard
rent for a one-horse farm in the community where ..."
3. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"And here came the buggy—overboard went the man, and in "one-horse less time than
I can tell it the vehicle was distributed in small fragments along three ..."
4. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1907)
"8 fr., with two horses, 4 pers., 12 fr. ; Кану, with one horse 9 or 11 fr.
i Bernina Hauses ... Fee for driver of one horse, half-day 50 c., whole day 1 fr. ..."
5. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, Queensland Palaeontographical Society (1897)
"... one horse. Hay was issued for 125 horses. Friday, 9 Nov. ... one horse ; the
Archdeacon of Winchester, eight horses ; Juliana de Champaigne,9 seven ..."
6. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"... And blooming as a Peony in buxom May, The toast she long had been of Farringdon
Within, And she fill'd the better half of a one horse chay. ..."
7. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"THE ONE HORSE CHAY. MRS. BUBB was gay and free, fair, fat, and forty three, And
blooming as a Peony in buxom May, The toast she long had been of Farringdon ..."
8. The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical by Robert H. Baird (1851)
"A one-horse-power is calculated to drive at an average speed, 100 throstle
spindles, on No. 25 cotton-yarn twist, including the necessary preparations, ..."
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