put in harness

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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

I do not think I am cut out for a Don nor your mother for a Donness—we have had thirty years' freedom in London, and are too old to put in harness.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

He endeavored to persuade himself that learning and dullness went hand in hand, and that genius was not to be put in harness.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

While the courier unpacked his provisions, Mukoki and Wabigoon assembled the teams and proceeded to select three of the best of their own animals to put in harness with those of the Hudson Bay mail.

From The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds by Curwood, James Oliver