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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
11 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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Definition:1. to fill with water and sink2. to stumble, fall and go lame, of a horse3. [obsolete] to stumble
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We had a good ship, but she was deep laden, and wallowed in the sea, so that the seamen every now and then cried out she would founder. It was my advantage in one respect, that I did not know what they meant by founder till I inquired.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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and Justin so spurred Bovary's horse that he left it foundered and three parts dead by the hill
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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and fifty men at work. Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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in the cab in which my grandmother was apparently seated she had seemed to be foundering, sliding into the abyss, clinging desperately to the cushions which could barely arrest the downward plunge of her body, her hair in disorder, her eye wild, unable any longer to face the assault of the images which its pupil was not strong enough now to bear.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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'It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation. That he leaves to abler and to purer hands.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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