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Wild horse

noun

Undomesticated or feral domestic horse.

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"Wild horse" Quotes from Famous Books

... their bowsprits a toss, and if they don't run on the first rock they can find they rush into some outrageous current, or else go straight ashore, to get knocked to pieces by the breakers. That's the sort o' character I give a ship. I'd a deal rather sit behind a wild horse without any reins than trust myself in a ship without a good man and ...

— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn

... shaking his red hair gaily. He was not tall, but his legs were big, for he ran after the wild horse and deer and ox. And his arms were big, because he threw a great spear and a stone ax. His name ...

— The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone • Margaret A. McIntyre

... domestic Horse is a very wise and capable animal; but this is chiefly due to its age-long association with man, and education by him. Mentally the wild horse is a very different animal, and in the intellectual scale it ranks with ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... he heard three knocks at the door. He roused his parents, but he did not wait for orders from them. He opened the door, and a flash of lightning showed him outside the threshold a low-sized, shaggy, wild-looking horse. And Fergus knew it was the Pooka, the wild horse of the mountains. Bold as Fergus was, his heart beat quickly as he saw fire issuing from the Pooka's nostrils. But, banishing ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy