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12 total sentences available.
Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the military attire of a strange nation; and without it was his warhorse, in the center of a collection of mounted domestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some distant journey.
Source: wiktionary
As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his war-horse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm.
Source: wiktionary
Near-synonym: workhorse
Source: wiktionary
Among other accidents of that year was a Democratic president. Judge Atwood was a warhorse of Democracy.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include old-timer, veteran, battlehorse, bayard, charger.
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