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"text": "He managed to escape ahorse.",
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{
"text": "1817, Maria Edgworth, Ormond, Chapter 4, in Harrington, and Ormond, Tales, London: R. Hunter, Volume 2, p. 85,\n“By all that’s princely,” cried he, “then, that young Harry Ormond was intended for a prince, he sits a horse so like myself; and that horse requires a master hand to manage him.”"
},
{
"ref": "1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, published 1956, page 404",
"text": "the right to proceed in peace, by whatever means he and his people saw fit, afoot or ahorse",
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},
{
"ref": "1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 2, in The Golden Slave,, New York: Avon",
"text": "Two Romans ahorse were circling about four dismounted Cimbri, who stood back to back and glared.",
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"On the back of a horse; on horseback."
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],
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"(archaic) On the back of a horse; on horseback."
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},
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"On the back of a horse; on horseback."
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"(archaic) On the back of a horse; on horseback."
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],
"word": "ahorse"
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