Meanings of preliminary canter in английском

Existing for the race, they enjoy existence merely in the preliminary canter.

The 'orses are just going up the course for the preliminary canter.

It will be a sort of preliminary canter for my recital.

It was a preliminary canter for the big race, perhaps.

Not the great and terrible Annual Inspection, of course, but a preliminary canter in that direction.

But all this was a mere preliminary canter.

The third horse-orangeand white sleeves, black cap... they are going now for the preliminary canter.

At your age, unhappiness is easily borne-itis only what the sporting gentlemen call a preliminary canter.

And she told him about the " preliminary canter."

I wanted to say that was only the preliminary canter, but could not translate it, and so was silent.

He readily purchased the salt, but learned, to his consternation, that the march to Burkesville was a mere preliminary canter.

He said considerately that I might wait a few minutes until another new arrival had done his little preliminary canter.

They're Kraill's preliminary canter.

We have had a preliminary canter over the fossils, and I have seen some things which were worth all the journey across.

Small brained, short-visioned, they lose sight of the race and desire the preliminary canter, with its excitements and promises, to continue indefinitely.

The horses had gone up to the right, and they now started for the preliminary canter, passing in loose order before the stands.