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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. Had Anyone Seen the Splendour of the Horse? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

The horse was nearly life-size, moulded out of clay, baked, burnt, and brightly coloured, and reared its head proudly, prancing its forelegs in the air and flourishing its tail in a loop; beside the horse stood a warrior with scythelike mustachios, bulging eyes, and aquiline nose. The old image-makers believed in indicating a man of strength by bulging out his eyes and sharpening his moustache tips, and also decorated the man’s chest with beads which looked today like blobs of mud through the ravages of sun and wind and rain (when it came), but Muni would insist that he had known the beads to sparkle like the nine gems at one time in his life.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

Had anyone seen the splendour of the horse?

टीपा लिहा
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उत्तर

No one could remember seeing the horse in its pure- white condition with a cover of pure brocade and red and black lace.

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पाठ 2.03: A Horse and Two Goats - Passage 4

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