long-failed

Updated: May 16, 2025

It chanced that the infant with his maid had strayed one morning to a mile's distance from the avenue of Brere-wood Lodge, his father's seat. Their attention was attracted by a carriage drawn by six stately long-failed black horses, and with as much carving and gilding as would have done honour to my lord mayor's.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since