put in harness

Example Sentences

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He’s put in harness and becomes the member of a dogsled team hauling mail to prospectors drawn to the frigid fastness of the Yukon in the hunt for the yellow stuff.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2020

You will be put in harness soon, colt, and perhaps you, too, will be sold.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

The freedom and grace of its movements are gone, even before it is put in harness.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

Ah, one must be caught young, and put in harness early, to lead such an existence as that and be content!

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

Two dogs, not choosing to allow themselves to be caught and put in harness, had been still left behind at the last encampment.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold