Sentence examples for Light carriage from inspiring English sources

The English Hackney is a light carriage horse, influenced by the Thoroughbred and capable of covering distances of 12 to 15 miles (19 to 24 km) per hour at the trot and canter.

As Leonard Lueras notes in "Surfing: The Ultimate Pleasure," the sport allowed for fashion statements; a visiting British sea captain, a cousin of Lord Byron, wrote that "to have a neat floatboard, well-kept, and dried, is to a Sandwich Islander what a tilbury or cabriolet, or whatever light carriage may be in fashion is to a young English man".

The borrowings from Celtic into Latin, which derive mainly from the period before the expansion of Roman power, belong to a few restricted categories, such as war (lancea "lance"), transport (carrus "baggage wagon" and carpentum "light carriage"), and agricultural products (cervesia "beer").

While breeding stock was exchanged between the two studs, Kladrub specialized in producing heavy carriage horses, while riding and light carriage horses came from the Lipizza stud.

This is a class that caters for Draft, Heavy Horses and light Carriage horses and ponies.

There are two types of horse-racing: Harness Racing, where a horse races in a trot, with a light carriage called a "sulky" and Gallop Racing, where the horse's just race their fastest with riders on their backs to see which horse is the fastest.

After cities redesigned roads to encourage new forms of trasnport, especially trolley cars, light carriages, and bicycles, the bans disappeared in the 1890s.

It was reputed to be a versatile horse, appropriate for riding and pulling light carriages.

A WHIRL OF activity fills the dimly lit carriage.

With its dimly lighted carriage lamps, dark paneled walls and deeply cushioned leather chairs, the Dunhill store at 65 East 57th Street was so understated that aside from the prominently displayed bolts of cloth suggestive of fine and expensive suits to come, much of the other merchandise was discreetly hidden away in drawers or closed cabinets.

In 1942, trying to solve the problem of lack of a suitable mobile 152 mm howitzer, the design bureau headed by F. F. Petrov started to work privately on a new howitzer, based on the carriage of the M-30 and the barrel of the M-10 (which was fitted with a muzzle brake in order to reduce the recoil and thus prevent damage to the lighter carriage).