What does thoroughpaced mean?
Thoroughpaced means (of a horse) Trained in every pace..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of a horse) Trained in every pace..
I, who found it hard matter to keep up my less thoroughpaced steed with the speed of her perfect little Pegasus, […]
Wood's character of him is, that — "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. […]
[T]he terrors of superior authority were plainly perceivable in his features, and in less than three months he became a thorough-paced husband.
The improbability of a thoroughpaced scoundrel writing daily elaborate confessions of his criminality to a friend, even when the friend condemns him, expatiating upon atrocities that deserved hanging, and justifying his vices on principle, is rather too glaring to be admissible.
[…] but Swinburne was perhaps the first thoroughpaced disciple of the French romantic school.
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Thoroughpaced means (of a horse) Trained in every pace..
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I, who found it hard matter to keep up my less thoroughpaced steed with the speed of her perfect little Pegasus, […]
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