old war-horse

Nan, this second horse, had easier gaits than the old war-horse.

To Kenyon and Bramsdean it was much the same as a trumpet-call to an old war-horse.

How chivalric is his Polonaise—that old war-horse!

Paderewski I heard play in Leipsic in 1912 at a Gewandhaus concert under the baton of the greatest living conductor, Arthur Nikisch, and I can vouch for the plangent tone quality and the poetic reading he displayed in his performance of that old war-horse, the F minor concerto of Chopin.

The Vicomte, who had seen all in a maze of stupefaction, stiffened himself--as the old war-horse that scents the battle.