rocking horse

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Set against the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, it depicts a favorite Southern activity—akin to her widely admired maple-sugaring paintings set up north—embellished with details like the tiny rocking horse on her front porch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

"His first Christmas present was a rocking horse, for his second I got him a pony, and he's never looked back."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023

Among them were original paintings, photographs from her childhood and an antique rocking horse that, according to family lore, Richard Nixon rode on as a baby.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022

The five-act show also included a set consisting of mushrooms, an oversized snail, rubber ducks and a rocking horse.

From Fox News • Dec. 30, 2021

Conversation trailed off, and the room became silent except for the monotonous thwacking of J.B. riding his rocking horse in the corner.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly