"Snaffle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Emperor, "this difficulty is over; she will run down hill to her revenge, and will need the snaffle and curb more than the lash. If every jealous dame in Constantinople were to pursue her fury as unrelentingly, our laws should be written, like Draco's, not in ink, but in blood.—Attend to me now," he said ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought, Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars Which 'fronted mine own peace. As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another: The third o' theworld is yours; which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not ...
— Antony and Cleopatra • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... certain Chief Justices do with their wives) "To flog them within half an inch of their lives. "If they've any bad Irish blood lurking about, "This (he knew by experience) would soon draw it out." Should this be thought cruel his Lordship proposes "The new Veto snaffle[4] to bind down their noses— "A pretty contrivance made out of old chains, "Which appears to indulge while it doubly restrains; "Which, however high-mettled, their gamesomeness checks "(Adds his Lordship humanely), or ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... horse is a noble animal," whether we consider him in his usefulness or in his beauty; whether caparisoned in the chamfrein and demi-peake of the chivalry of olden times, or scarcely fettered and surmounted by the snaffle and hog-skin of the present; whether he excites our envy when bounding over the sandy deserts of Arabia, or awakens our sympathies when drawing sand from Hampstead and the parts adjacent; whether we see him as romance pictures him, foaming in the lists, or bearing, "through flood and field," the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... coach and passengers two miles back, near the river.' The landlord turned pale. 'What day is this?' he asked. 'The 14th of October.' 'The 14th of October!' cried the landlord; 'I remember that date well. That day, fifteen years since, was the last trip of the old mail coach. It left here, with Bill Snaffle, the driver, and three insides, a military man, an old woman, and a young lady. They were never heard of after they left here. Their trail was followed as far as the bridge. It is supposed that the horses got frightened at something, and backed off into the Concord River. But I have heard,' ...
— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage
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