cancelled

Example Sentences

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Their amusement at the awkward movements of the horses after they were spancelled knew no bounds.

From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill

The horses, although tethered and close spancelled, could not be secured, even thus.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas

I followed up a rocky hill to the house above, and there found Flurry and Slipper engaged in the patriarchal task of driving two brace of coupled and spancelled goats into a shed.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

She claims for her body the liberty to move one year with the long stride of a running fowl, and the next at a hobble like a spancelled goat.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

Isn't it a bad story for me to be wearing out my days beside you the same as a spancelled goat.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various