The pages' horses, like those of the archers, were not warhorses.
In battle the squires would follow the brothers with the spare warhorses.
Children, especially, were required to collect these: paper, glass, tin foil, and also large quantities of foliage to feed the warhorses.
I hope that the old political warhorses will not come out again, determined to keep all education down to the level of comprehensives.
The military leaders are warhorses, in the sense that they have nosebags filled with paper put about their necks every morning.
Despite the presence of powerful local nobles, the grand duke held strategic estates, especially studs of warhorses and forts on the country's frontiers in the west and north- and south-east.
As the examples suggest, some entries are old warhorses, whereas others are less familiar.
On arriving in the city he mounted a warhorse and without hesitation led an impromptu attack on the invaders who had still not penetrated beyond the suburbs.
