The military leaders are warhorses, in the sense that they have nosebags filled with paper put about their necks every morning.
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I saw the man stop the cart, put on the horse'snosebagand chain up the wheel.
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I perpetually see horses standing with their nosebags on, though they are not feeding.
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Roget classifies it as a list of containers, in close proximity to such things as "nosebag"and"swag" as giving some indication of its meaning.
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