shaggy-eared

Updated: May 6, 2025

Here a shaggy-eared pony, all skin and bone, was seen approaching us at a foot's pace. Trembling, and drooping its head, it scanned us, as it drew level, with a round black eye, and snorted. Upon that, its rider pushed back a ragged fur cap, glanced warily in our direction, and again sank his head. "The folk of these parts are ugly to look at," softly commented the woman from Orlov.

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia