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
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
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
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
