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Houyhnhnms

noun
1.
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos.





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"Houyhnhnms" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the views which a physiological observer takes of the forms of life around him. It won't do to draw individual portraits, but the differences of natural groups of human beings are as proper subjects of remark as those of different breeds of horses, and if horses were Houyhnhnms I don't think they would quarrel with us because we made a distinction between a "Morgan" and a "Messenger." The truth is, Sir, the lean sandy soil and the droughts and the long winters and the east-winds and the cold storms, ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Houyhnhnms" :   mythical place, imaginary place, fictitious place


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