stableboy

Here are words Carl Phillips uses in his new book of poetry, Speak Low: jackdaws, shadowland, talismanic, cypress, wingbeat, plash, lightless, hoofbeat, stableboy, foxheads.

HELLO: stableboy Hay meteorologist Hail hippie High innocent "mark" Hello preacher Hallow Polynesian Hawaii?

It's up to stableboy Ned and his animal friends to rescue her when all the knights fail: will he be able to effect rescue, or will his butterfingers let her slip through?

There are also set pieces such as the invented excerpt from "Passions of a Stableboy," Gass's creation, which parodies nineteenth-century modes of rendering desire: "I shall take you in this horsey darkness, this stable quiet, this turded territory; I shall topple you to the straw ground and fill you with myself...."

``I think she must have done something terribly unforgive able like get pregnant to a stableboy,and reappeared in Merseyside a couple of generations later.''

Richard Burton gives a bravura performance as the psychiatrist seeking to unearth the motivation behind the attack, and Peter Firth more than holds his own as the disturbed stableboy. Naturally, there are strong supporting performances from a crop of fine English actors--in this case, Colin Blakely, Harry Andrews, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter--as most topflight British dramas seem to guarantee.

"But there's also a ghostly stableboy we call Ned, who she says is evil.

C- sneaked off to watch the Grand Ball and, once in the estate and aided by strong drink says she had a "bout" with a stableboy she made it upstairs disguised as a maid, entered a room and "borrowed" a gown.

Now dressed as a stableboy, the narrator successfully passes as one of the crowd and enters the house.

This is a great loss, because every kind of notated music can be played on it, and how the guitar is nothing but a cow-bell, so easy to play, especially when strummed, that there is not a stableboy who is not a musician on the guitar."

James McDermott, Kinnear's stableboy, was hanged for the crime; Grace's capital sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Equus (1973; film, 1977), dealing with a mentally disturbed stableboy's obsession with horses, was a success with both the public and the critics.

Over the past few years the former Red Rum stableboy has established himself as one of the UK's most recognisable comedy stars.

Eventually, she gets her way, and when she tells a stableboy to thank Stonehill for her, the boy replies, "He said he don't never want to hear your name again!"