Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 212
9 by two or three colts, who are suffered, even in their thirdyear, to run loose after their dams, and to gambol unre-strained over the plain. It is to their perfect freedom whilstyoung that the horses of the desert owe their speed and thesuppleness of their limbs. In the evening, as I was seated…