Although his evening-dress was perfect in every detail, he conveyed a subtle suggestion of
horsiness. He reached the table and sat down without invitation in the vacant chair.
Actors stand upright but need to convey the essence of
horsiness through their movements.
Horsiness of the voice was noticed in few patients due to laryngeal involvement seen in leprosy.
Thus "
horsiness" is increased in Moore's revision, even though the number of adjectives in the phrase is reduced by one: the adjectival-functioning "butterfly" is converted to the first half of the compound noun "butterfly-zebra," the hyphen here implying the equivalence that metaphor often seeks.
Then there was Camilla's
horsiness. The British working classes feel horses denote privileges and toffdom.
Follyfoot(71) is the Monica Dickens favourite, a classic of
horsiness, reissued thankfully without any text tinkering and with an eye-catching photo cover.
But we can entitize the property or aspect by a simple grammatical conversion, nominalization the adjective; thus, it is common usage to extend 'abstraction' to refer to that property or aspect as a thing in itself: 'equinity' or '
horsiness'.
(7.) In the late 8th and early 7th centuries, before conventions for representing some mythical creatures had been settled upon,
horsiness or four-footedness is almost by definition a sign of the monstrous (cf.
HIS Royal
Horsiness Prince Harry is obviously a chip off the old block as he indulges in a touch of pitch and putt on the polo field.
Usually, the concerned expression on the face of the private detective next to her indicated that the peasant was expected to pull over and let Her
Horsiness pass.
Later readers, who know that Capability Brown could improve on the English landscape, Cecil Beaton take photographs more attractive than his sitters, and Elizabeth Frink bring out the
horsiness in individual horses, will not find this Plotinian point particularly original.