what does it mean when a statue of a horse with a horseman is braying?
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There is an urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end. One hoof off the floor would indicate the rider died of wounds received in battle, or perhaps was just wounded in battle; two hooves off the floor would indicate the rider was killed in battle. An examination of the equestrian statues in most major European cities shows this is not true. If it ever was true, the practice appears to have died out in the 19th century.\n\nI do not believe it means anything.
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The horse he rode on his famous ride belonged to Deacon Larkin I believe it was named Brown Beauty. He did own another horse but I can't remember the name. It was an american quarter horse. Perhaps Molly Bea. Fuzzy history.
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1. He appears to be asking the man if he needs someone to look after his horses. He is suggesting that he would like to do take this job as he is keen to get back into training horses which is what he has done before.\n\n2. Yes. He is saying that he would be willing to accept less money than normal to do the job.\n\n3. Beat a dead horse (actually the real expression is - Flog a dead horse) is an expression which means to do something which has no point because it is already settled. For example, if a child asked his mother for something and she said NO and would not change her mind, then to keep asking can be described as  - Beating (Flogging) a dead horse. In your example it possibly is referring to the pointlessness of asking for work when none is on offer. But it is also meant to be funny in this case because the subject is actually about horses :-)\n\nThe expression probably comes from the pointlessness of beating a horse (to make it work harder) if it is dead!!
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His horse is named Friday.
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動物  this symbol means animal.
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Beating the dead horse means that even tho you are trying to get that dang horse to go, he won't, cause he's dead. It means you are really trying to do something but you keep getting the same results, no matter what you do.
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I don't recall reading that passage, but a chariot is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, and a bier is a resting place for a dead person.
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the way a horse knows it won is if it received praise from the jockey/trainer/owner.  they are trained to run fast and that is all.  on the other hand, the subject of whether or not animals have/exhibit emotions is a great debate
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This is actually a direct reference to the Trojan Horse being used at the tail end of the Trojan Wars.  The horse was of a different color (method of thinking) than the besiegers, so it was considered a novel idea and trustworthy.
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A two-tone horse is a paint, hombre. Paints are way cool, the equine equivalent of a convertible.
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When wild horses grow too much hoof, they head for rocky ground to chafe it away.\n\nThink about it.
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Where did you hear this?  You may have misheard it.  There are a lot of "horse idioms" but nothing like you describe.  Perhaps it is "Wild horses would not play tag on tender hoofs" which would mean "No, I'm not going to do that"\n\nDoes that make horse sense to you, or is it horse feathers?  Either way, remember, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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It is metaphorical not to be taken literal. All of the horses of the apocolypse are. They represent something, John had saw them in a vision, so yes I could say we believe in the horse of death, but dont actually believe a pale horse is going to come leaping down from the sky and kill millions of people. If you havnt hear of this it is found in the final book of the bible, Revelation. The horse of death could represent many things, from diseases, natural disasters, and almost anything else that kills people.
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It is hard to tell due to the fact of how old the horse is and what kind of breed it is.
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The seahorse (Hippocampus) whose Greek name means  "bent horse"\n\nIn astrology, the Makara is often translated Water Horse, and corresponds to the western astrological sign of Capricorn. \n\nThe seahorse was one of the mystical symbols in the picture of St. Cathrine of Alexandria (Egypt) See first link below to see this painting and a detail of the sea horse.\n\nSee second link for the history of St. Cathrine of Alexandria.  Since a lot of Masonic sybolism comes from Egyptian sources, this may be a good source for you.\n\nHope some of this helps.  Good luck in your search.
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it probably relates to the greek horse which was a gift to the city of troy . . \n\nsolidiers were hidden in the horse and let the Greeks into the castle during the night, and the greeks eventually won the war.
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I clicked on the link, but I saw that you had already been helped!\n\nPerhaps Odesseus/Ulysses was a comic hero?  I mean, come on!  A big wooden horse to defeat the Trojans?  Somehow I think this was a play on Trojan ego...  Was the giant wooden horse compensating for something?  Sorry.  I love double meanings...