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"ref": "1958, Alan Brilliant, editor, Pan: A Quarterly of Poetry, New York: Igal Roodenko",
"text": "One sees instead a small snowhorse / Made by children one dull afternoon, / Though now it gleams like Triton’s foal / New-born from the unblemished foam.",
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"ref": "1991, Clara Johnson Scroggins, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: A Collector’s Guide, Hallmark Cards, page 102",
"text": "Little boy, house, Christmas trees, and snowman riding a snowhorse are depicted.",
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"ref": "1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, page 72",
"text": "Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs.",
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"ref": "2002, Doranna Durgin, Changespell Legacy (The Changespell Saga, Book III), Blue Hound Visions, published 2013",
"text": "He’d helped them build a snowman this winter. With a snowhorse.",
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"ref": "2005, Joanne Merriam, The Glaze from Breaking, Stride Publications, page 56",
"text": "Sometime in 1977 my father takes a series of photographs of me sitting on a snowhorse we’d just made, which amuses my parents when they realize that I’m eating the snow.",
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"ref": "2012, V. J. Chambers, Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses, Book One), Punk Rawk Books, page 73",
"text": "“Are they making snowmen?” asked Nora. / “Snowmen, snowwomen, snowmermaids, snowhorses—anything you can think of,” said Maddie.",
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"ref": "1944 April 5, “Famous Dairy Herd Auctioned”, in The Parsons Sun, volume 72, number 219, Parsons, Kan., page 6, column 4",
"text": "Longview Farms, now operated by Loula Long Combs, better known throughout the United States as a breeder and exhibitor of thoroughbred snowhorses, is disposing of its 758 fine grade dairy cattle and replacing them with 700 beef cattle which need less attention.",
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"ref": "1951 January 27, Ray Nelson, “Beautiful Calm of the Children”, in The Herald-Journal, volume 42, number 43, Logan, Ut., page 2, column 1",
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"ref": "1957 January 14, “Hydramatic Transmissions Due Check Every 8-10,000 Miles, Says Expert”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 63, Shreveport, La., page 8, column 3",
"text": "They are equipped to completely rebuild and overhaul your present motor and return it to your purring like a kitten and performing like a snowhorse.",
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"ref": "1983, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 65, page 40, column 1",
"text": "There are “snowhorses,” not otherwise described in detail, that might be more than just ordinary equines bred for service in the winter.",
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"ref": "1983, Marta Randall, The Sword of Winter, Timescape Books, page 73",
"text": "Lyeth led the way through the narrow, up-sloping passage called the Neck and into an exercise yard where snowhorses and summer horses were being groomed or exercised or simply admired.",
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"ref": "1996, Jonathan Allison, Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall & Co., page 45",
"text": "Profile of Kavanagh, who “has the constitution of a Tibetan snowhorse.” Comments on Kavanagh’s recovery from cancer:[…]",
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},
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},
{
"ref": "1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, page 72",
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},
{
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},
{
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},
{
"ref": "2012, V. J. Chambers, Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses, Book One), Punk Rawk Books, page 73",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1957 January 14, “Hydramatic Transmissions Due Check Every 8-10,000 Miles, Says Expert”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 63, Shreveport, La., page 8, column 3",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1983, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 65, page 40, column 1",
"text": "There are “snowhorses,” not otherwise described in detail, that might be more than just ordinary equines bred for service in the winter.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1983, Marta Randall, The Sword of Winter, Timescape Books, page 73",
"text": "Lyeth led the way through the narrow, up-sloping passage called the Neck and into an exercise yard where snowhorses and summer horses were being groomed or exercised or simply admired.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Jonathan Allison, Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall & Co., page 45",
"text": "Profile of Kavanagh, who “has the constitution of a Tibetan snowhorse.” Comments on Kavanagh’s recovery from cancer:[…]",
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