Horsemanship
['hɔrsmən'ʃɪp]
Definition
(n.) The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.
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Examples
- In the time of Confucius its education included archery and horsemanship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The process bears as much resemblance to statecraft as sitting backward on a runaway horse does to horsemanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is not possible that you should think horsemanship wrong. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I cannot but think that good horsemanship has a great deal to do with the mind. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- His horsemanship, especially after hounds, was a marvel and delight even in that country of magnificent horsemen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Can justice produce injustice any more than the art of horsemanship can make bad horsemen, or heat produce cold? Plato. The Republic.
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