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nosebag

a bag, fastened around the head of a horse and covering the nose, in which feed is placed
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These huge beasts were often to be seen standing patiently outside one of the many hostelries around the area, nosebag attached and munching contentedly away.
A TRIP TO THE FLICKS; Tales from the backstreets
I've mostly got it in check now but I have to keep a constant eye on it or I'd just nosebag every day.
Get stuffed to being 40; Anna Richardson is dreading her big birthday and tries to hold back the years with a bit of extreme exercising
Both father and daughter rode him, sprinkled their palms with sugar--his long blue tongue sickened me--and filled his nosebag with homemade muesli.
Match Day
Soon the guards were taking everyone's canteens and dumping the contents into the nosebag of a horse.
March through hell: sixty-five years later, the cruelty inflicted on helpless US and Filipino POWs during the Bataan Death March remains as shocking as ever
The rider and saddle, a pair of valises with overcoat, on top of which was a blanket picquet cape, heel rope, heel peg and surcingle, two nets of hay and a nosebag of oats; a mess tin and a shoe pocket with two shoes and nails.
Around the water cart
and toting my stock in a canvas bag previously used as a nosebag for our horse, I set off to confront my first prospect.
Lock, stock, barrel, and bluing
8DA YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS WEE THINKER ACROSS: 7 Proverb 9 Raids 10 Colin 11 Eyesore 12 Row 13 Nazareth 16 Brickbat 17 Dad 19 Memento 21 Donor 22 Gloom 23 Kittens DOWN: 1 Spectre 2 Follower 3 Neon 4 True Grit 5 Vino 6 Isles 8 Breeze block 13 Nickname 14 TV dinner 15 Address 18 Image 20 Mood 21 Date QUICKIE ACROSS: 1 Crash helmet 8 Too 9 Lit 11 Walk out 12 Aisle 13 Axe 14 Elm 15 Caterer 17 Gel 19 Edit 21 Open 23 Have 25 Cube 27 Web 29 Nosebag 31 Era 34 Spa 36 Sense 37 Redhead 38 Set 39 Are 40 Disentangle DOWN: 1 Coax 2 Role 3 Storage 4 Hatred 5 Lease 6 Else 7 Till 8 Twang 10 Tempt 16 Rev 18 Lob 20 Dew 22 Pen 24 Aladdin 25 Chess 26 Ferret 28 Blade 30 Obese 32 Reed 33 Anti 34 Seal 35 Pare
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This for her must have proved the utmost of temptations, since, in very sweeping terms, young heroines of narratives composed by early nineteenth century male writers were frequently one-dimensional, often invisible, wisps--such as Byron's Leila in The Giaour--and older women were wild-looking and strident cartoon characters--such as Scott's Mrs Nosebag in Waverley, and Meg Merrilies, whom LEL describes as a 'stage effect', (12) in Guy Mannering.
We did not think that he could die: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the afterlife of Scott's Heroines
Given that gurning Gregg is on every other show, someone at the Beeb clearly believes there's nothing more entertaining than a loudvoiced barrow boy describing the taste of nosebag.
Do us a flyver, Gregg
Alan Simpson: "We've only ourselves to blame We've become a mini America - eating for eating's sake, no proper meal times, eating on the hoof, while out shopping, and some of us wearing a horse's nosebag, going through a week's groceries while watching the latest blockbuster at the local flea pit.
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The much-discussed sprinter is owned by golfer Lee Westwood and his agent Andrew 'Chubby' Chandler, who were on the scoresheet with On The Hoof in the Nosebag Cafeteria Maiden Stakes.
Fall guy Spencer hits back to win
ACCORDING to nosebag legend, Sam Waley-Cohen was the matchmaker who brought Prince William and Kate Middleton back together.
The Gold Cup makes you realise that life is not a rehearsal. It is better to take your chances than just sit idly by ..
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