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
No sooner were our animals put in harness, than the shaft mule reared and plunged, burst ropes and straps, and nearly flung the cart into the Missouri.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis
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
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
I tried having him put in harness; the horse backed, and if one gave him a flick with the whip he jibbed, kicked, and positively lay down.
From A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I by Garnett, Constance
