Sentence Examples

1. But it is impossible to represent his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race.
2. For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.
3. He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself several horses and mares of quality in the neighborhood came often to our house upon the report spread of a wonderful yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm, and seemed in his words and actions to discover some glimmerings of reason.
4. The reader may please to observe that the following extract of many of the conversations I had with my master, contains a summary of the most material points, which were discoursed at several times for above two years his honor often desiring fuller satisfaction as I farther improved in the Houyhnhnm tongue.
5. He was sure no Houyhnhnm alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust yahoos to manage it.
6. The word Houyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies a horse, and, in its etymology, the perfection of nature.
7. That the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last inclosed the whole herd and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal so savage by nature can be capable of acquiring using them for draught and carriage.
8. He could easily conceive that a Houyhnhnm grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb but that Nature, who works all things to perfection, should suffer any pains to breed in our bodies he thought it impossible, and desired to know the reason of so unaccountable an evil.
9. He added how I had endeavored to persuade him, that in my own and other countries the yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude that he observed in me all the qualities of a yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of reason, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the yahoos of their country were to me.
10. Here likewise the regulation of children is settled as for instance, if a Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them with another that has two females and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family shall breed another to supply the loss.