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- - Even to my untutored eye, he appeared to be an uncommonly good- looking animal, a well- bred grey, with shoulders that raked back as far as the eye could wish, the true Irish jumping hindquarters, and a showy head and neck; it was obvious that nothing except Michael Hallahane's adroit chucks at his bridle kept him from displaying his jumping powers free of charge. - "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.", E. OE. Somerville Martin Ross
- - " I always think bad of it," said Boatswain Chucks, " when the elements won't allow my whistle to be heard; and I consider it hardly fair play." - "From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life", Captain A. T. Mahan
- - I wanted to loaf for a while in Port Townsend, the old jumping- off place, the monogram in the extreme northwest corner of the map of the United States of America- at least such it was until the Alaskan annex stretched the thing all out of shape, and planted our flag so far out in the Pacific that San Francisco lies a little east of the centre of the Union, and the Hawaiian islands come within our boundaries; for our Aleutian- island arm, you know, stretches a thousand miles to the west of Hawaii- it even chucks Asia under the chin. - "Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska", Charles Warren Stoddard
