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  Hortense - Muppet Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hortense is one of the main characters in The Secret Life of Toys.
Hortense was created to replace the rolling horse Belmont from The Christmas Toy, who was performed by Richard Hunt.
Two Hortense puppets were used on the show: an animatronic puppet for wide shots and a handpuppet for closeups.
muppet.wikia.com /wiki/Hortense   (126 words)

  
  Hortense McDuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hortense McDuck is a fictional character from the Scrooge McDuck universe.
Hortense was born on 1876 in Glasgow, Scotland as the youngest child of Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake.
Hortense was born in a working class family living in relative poverty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hortense_McDuck   (738 words)

  
 Hortense (horse) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hortense is a fictional horse who was owned by Scrooge McDuck.
Scrooge wasn't thrown off of Hortense because his money-belt was hung up in her saddle.
After she became Scrooge's horse he called her Hortense, after his sister Hortense McDuck.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hortense_(horse)   (117 words)

  
 [No title]
Fortunately the gentlemen of the party, seeing her fall, sprang from their horses in time to rescue her; and, by extraordinary good fortune, she was not even bruised, and was the first to laugh at her misadventure.
Mademoiselle Hortense was, I would not say, greedy, but she was exceedingly fond of sweets; and Charvet, in relating these details, said to me, that at each town of any size through which they passed the carriage was filled with bonbons and dainties, of which mademoiselle consumed a great quantity.
Horses, cannon, caissons, and an immense quantity of army stores of all kinds, everything, in fact, was drawn or carried over glaciers which appeared inaccessible, and by paths which seemed impracticable even for a single man.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext02/nc13v10.txt   (18489 words)

  
 Living in Egypt: December 12, 2004
Hortense is one of my neighbours, a young French woman who is utterly fearless on horseback, as is pretty obvious from the picture.
I'd met the mare once and she wasn't exactly the friendliest creature on the planet, but in the end, a horse nut is a horse nut after all.
The horses are beginning to earn their carrots taking people for trail rides, but their real value is in maintaining my sanity.
miloflamingo.blogspot.com /2004_12_12_miloflamingo_archive.html   (1513 words)

  
 [No title]
Hortense was president of the Woman's Improvement Club many times and was involved in many church activities.
Hortense: After a number of childless years, we adopted twins, a girl and a boy.
Hortense was now a clerk for the Prado school district board of trustees.
gatheringleaves.org /cgs/sunnyslope/ira_and_hortense_ashcroft.htm   (580 words)

  
 A Tragedy of Error   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
“Hortense,” said the gentleman, as if he had not heard her, although, to a third person, it would have appeared that it was because he had done so that he spoke: “I do not need to tell you that it will never happen to me to betray our secret.
This room was at the back of the house, and her maid, who was at that moment walking in the long garden which stretched down to the water, where there was a landing place for small boats, saw her draw in the window blind and darken the room, still in her bonnet and cloak.
When she returned, Hortense was standing in the doorway, and as one of the shutters had meanwhile been thrown open, the woman could see that, although her mistress's hat had been tossed upon the sofa, her cloak had not been removed, and that her face was very pale.
www.blackmask.com /thatway/books138c/trager.htm   (6357 words)

  
 French royalty--Napoleon III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Figure 1.--This portrait is of Queen Hortense and her two sons about 1812 when the world of the Bonaparte's was about to collapse.
Louis' mother was Hortense Eugénie Beauharnais, step daughter of Emperor Napolon I. When the Emperor mairred Josephine, she was a widow returned from Martinique with two children.
Louis begins a lawsuit in January 1815 against Hortense, who he is seperated from, to at least have custody of the elder son.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/fra/royal-frn3.htm   (2985 words)

  
 Chapter Hollow's Cottage of Shirley by The Bronte Sisters
He passed through the wicket and mounted his horse; in a second he had flung himself from the saddle again, transferred the reins to Murgatroyd, and re-entered the cottage.
Moore lingered yet two minutes; he bent over Caroline’s desk and glanced at her grammar, he fingered her pen, he lifted her bouquet and played with it; his horse stamped impatient; Fred Murgatroyd hemmed and coughed at the gate, as if he wondered what in the world his master was doing.
Hortense, coming in ten minutes after, found, to her surprise, that Caroline had not yet commenced her exercise.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/9/17/15444/10.html   (440 words)

  
 EnduranceNet: 2004 Dahshur Dawdle
Tracy and Hortense talked, then Hortense asked Nabeel how far it was to the nearest hotel: 100 km (already!) back to St Katherine; 250 km to a place on the coast.
Hortense's voice became a little stronger, saying the same thing, but with Nabeel interrupting her constantly.
Hortense kept talking to Shoki to make sure he wouldn't fall asleep.
www.endurance.net /rides/2004DahshurDawdle/note10.html   (1241 words)

  
 French royalty--Napoleon III
Figure 1.--This portrait is of Queen Hortense and her two sons about 1812 when the world of the Bonaparte's was about to collapse.
Louis' mother was Hortense Eugénie Beauharnais, step daughter of Emperor Napolon I. When the Emperor mairred Josephine, she was a widow returned from Martinique with two children.
Louis begins a lawsuit in January 1815 against Hortense, who he is seperated from, to at least have custody of the elder son.
histclo.com /royal/fra/royal-frn3.htm   (2985 words)

  
 Chapter Horse <i>to</i> House that Jack Built of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook
Apellês of Cos painted Alexander’s horse so wonderfully well that a real horse, seeing it, began to neigh at it, supposing it to be alive.
Horse of Brass (The), a present from the king of Araby and Ind to Cambuscan king of Tartary.
Hortense, the vindictive French maidservant of lady Dedlock.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1118/14752/2.html   (546 words)

  
 Who's who in Duckburg - Hortense
Hortense is the horse, by then called "The Widow Maker", on which scrooge was tested when he was to be hired as a Cowboy by Murdo MacKenzie in 1882.
The reason Scrooge wasn't thrown of the horse immediately was that his money-belt was hanged up in the saddle.
When Scrooge returned to America in 1889 he and Hortense was reunited and appear together in 1890 in The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff.
duckman.pettho.com /characters/horse.html   (274 words)

  
 Learning to Ride a Bicycle - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
Hortense had always beem a covetous child, and was immediately filled with the urge to possess a similar monstrosity.
Hortense soon began to feel that the garden did not afford her enough scope.
Hortense's control of the machine progressed - literally - by leaps and bounds until she became an efficient cyclist.
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk /corpus/search/document.php?documentid=988   (536 words)

  
 Independent Living, Inc.
Hortense, an Independent Living client since the age of 99, settles herself in her wheelchair before a large window.
Hortense attended a two year normal school in La Crosse, Wisconsin and went on to teach 1st grade in Minnesota.
She taught Sunday school until she was 80 and two hundred people in her church family gathered for a dinner to honor her on her 100th birthday.
madison.com /communities/indeplife/pages/Hortense.php?php_page_set=10   (439 words)

  
 Saddlebred Rescue
In America, unlike some countries, horses are not eaten and not used in pet food, yet there is profit to be made in slaughtering horses for meat so it happens every day.
The process of slaughtering a horse is quite brutal, it's a totally terrifying process for the living horse and too often involves physical suffering as well, in spite of assurances by the slaughterhouses to the contrary.
Horses of all ages are slaughtered: race horses, show horses, pleasure horses, horse who have carried the handicapped, an of course mares used in the production of Premarin and their foals.
www.artbycrane.com /saddlebredhorserescue.html   (714 words)

  
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"Hortense has had her eye on you all morning.
I gave a horse laugh as it skittered through the water, with Randolph splashing in hot pursuit.
Hortense sauntered by with her head high in the air like she was gliding on glass, or afraid to break the egg shells, or something.
members.tripod.com /PZZZZ/five.html   (965 words)

  
 Independent Living, Inc.
Hortense, an Independent Living client since the age of 99, settles herself in her wheelchair before a large window.
Hortense attended a two year normal school in La Crosse, Wisconsin and went on to teach 1st grade in Minnesota.
She taught Sunday school until she was 80 and two hundred people in her church family gathered for a dinner to honor her on her 100th birthday.
www.madison.com /communities/indeplife/pages/Hortense.php?php_page_set=0   (430 words)

  
 The Infernal Machine
Flying glass had cut Hortense's wrist and her dress was splattered with blood, Josephine fainted, while Caroline, eight months pregnant, managed to remain calm.
Although the horse and cart had been utterly shattered in by the force of the blast, the police reconstructed the cart and horse and canvassed the city for anyone with knowledge of the vehicle or animal.
The liveryman at the stable where the horse had been kept was called in and also gave the police information on the comings and goings of the suspect.
www.napoleon-series.org /research/miscellaneous/c_infernal.html   (1228 words)

  
 Jackie Manning, Romance Author, Taming the Duke Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Soon after Alicia finds that her healing talents with horses have bound her to a passionate bargain with her enemy's son, she accepts the challenge with confidence.
Better to be alone with her horses than to accept one of the unsuitable men who had offered for her.
Their fortunes would be reversed if this horse proved as superior as she appeared to be.
www.theromanceclub.com /authors/jackiemanning/tamingpreview.htm   (3322 words)

  
 Britiain through black eyes - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of them, her hero Gilbert Joseph, has already done his bit for the mother country by serving with the RAF as a driver, from Scotland to Cornwall.
The voices are those of Gilbert and Hortense, their English landlady Queenie Bligh and her husband Bernard.
Hortense’s teaching qualifications were unacceptable in British schools.
www.sundayherald.com /39786   (1017 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Horse Racing - A Gentleman's Bet
It was a simpler pursuit and class handicapping, which seems to have gone the way of the $6 combine ticket, was in vogue.
He likes to key one horse on top with a couple of others underneath on tickets that will rarely cost more than $6.
He knows the odds are not in his favor, but he hopes to have a good time and maybe come home with some extra money.
espn.go.com /horse/columns/misc/1492427.html   (806 words)

  
 The tribes of Levy - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hortense and Gilbert are young Jamaicans, married on a whim.
Hortense, who speaks rigidly proper English and has impeccable manners, is less impressed.
It was not the England Hortense had been sold by her colonial teachers.
www.sundayherald.com /43257   (1291 words)

  
 Who's who in Duckburg - Hortense McDuck
So when Scrooge got a horse with a wild temper in America he named it after her.
When Scrooge finally returned to Duckburg in 1930 she and the rest of the family prepared for nice reunion, but because of Scrooges unpleasant behaviour when he returned she, and the rest of the family left him...
Whatever happened to Hortense, Quackmore and their kids after that incident is for the mostly unknown.
duckman.pettho.com /characters/hortense.html   (472 words)

  
 Ayelien Richards, Richards Ranch
Her first horse was Streak of Lightning, a Standardbred mare her dad got her when she was 17.
In 1948 she moved with her husband to Elmira, and wavered a bit between walking horses and Morgans as she planned to acquire a stallion to start a breeding operation.
In the late 60's life presented Ayelien with a series of challenges; a divorce, the horses needing to find homes where they will be well cared for, her son Billy is born with special needs, and Mandate's Peggy Lou unexpected death.
www.nysmhs.org /history/ARichards   (880 words)

  
 Postcard from France: Day 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After collecting the horses from their overnight retreat in a lush field, we tacked up and rode out through miles of beautiful wheat fields.
In addition, he was tickled to report that several wine makers in the Napa Valley region are also ordering the oak from the same forest for their oak legs.
We are very fortunate to have Patrick's wife, Jeanne Irene, and their daughter, Hortense, along on the ride with us all week.
www.equisearch.com /lifestyle/travel/francepostcard2_070804   (1037 words)

  
 NAPOLEON
Spurring his horse to full gallop, Napoleon reaches the carriage, halting in a cloud of dust alongside it.
Napoleon leaps from his horse, races to the carriage - opens the door - and beholds his 18-year-old bride - MARIE-LOUISE - cowering in the corner next to Caroline and her ladies-in waiting.
When the lathered horses are changed, buckets of water have to be poured over the smoking hot wheels, sending up clouds of steam into the still, silent night...
www.jmbarrie.co.uk /napoleon-script/NAPOLEON11.htm   (3092 words)

  
 Yahoo! GeoCities
I dont have a horse right now but someday I would like to have one.
Working on being able to adopt a horse or two in the future.
As soon as our fencing is complete and we move our horse home I will contact you about adopting a companion.
www.geocities.com /angels_among_us_equine_rescue/archive.html   (1028 words)

  
 Napoleon - Part 2
By the time the battles begin, a strong mist is felt, which Napoleon thinks it's in their advantage, since it will encover his army's movements from the enemy's eyes; later on as the sun starts shining, Napoleon's army attack and win.
Napoleon is standing on his horse, while takes place a sort of surrender ceremony where the defeated lay on the floor their flags; Talleyrand asks him if he never comes down from his horse, and Napoleon answers him that he's made everything on top of a horse, except to make love.
Napoleon is trying out a new horse while Caulaincourt is telling him that the Queen of Prussia considers him a monster, and that she's willing to invade Paris; Napoleon doesn't mind her comments about him, only saying that he has 150.000 men at his orders.
www.angelfire.com /tv2/clavier/Npart2.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Camp Beecher, by Hortense Balderston Campbell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
     After the massacre was completed, the party let down the fence to an eighty-acre field nearby, and drove off two mules; they also chased a horse to within a hundred and fifty yards of the house.
Hortense B. Campbell, May 18, 1933, 1495563 "B" CWB, advice relative patented entries.
Hortense B. Campbell, January 13th 1933, from C. Bridges, major general, says that there is no one by that name in the rolls of their office.
www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1934/34_2_campbell.htm   (5286 words)

  
 Book 9, Chapter 6
Madame Bonaparte received nothing but a great fright; Mademoiselle Hortense was slightly wounded in the face by a splinter of glass; Madame Caroline Murat, who was then far advanced in pregnancy, was seized by such a fear that they were obliged to take her back to the château.
Hardly had he turned his horse toward the first line of grenadiers of the consular guard, when the air was rent with countless shouts.
Dubois had thought it his duty to end his report by a compliment to the First Consul, in which there was, notwithstanding, considerable truth; viz., that the attempt of the 3d Nivose had redoubled the attachment of the French to the head of the State.
napoleonic-literature.com /Book_9/V1C6.html   (2435 words)

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