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Rocking-horse

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Rock´ing-horse`
n.1.The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.


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"Picture it," said he, "a rocking-horse for a child not three months old
Reflects Mrs Podsnap; fine woman for Professor Owen, quantity of bone, neck and nostrils like a rocking-horse, hard features, majestic head-dress in which Podsnap has hung golden offerings.
The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.
 
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