Literary notes about harness (AI summary)
The term "harness" appears throughout literary works with a remarkable versatility. In many narratives it denotes the physical equipment used to attach horses or other beasts to a vehicle or burden, as seen when characters prepare for travel or duty in medieval epics and adventure tales ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, writers employ the word metaphorically to suggest restraint, the imposition of order, or even a state of being drawn into inevitable obligations ([4], [5], [6]). Its usage extends into technical descriptions involving trade or craftsmanship, highlighting its practical significance in everyday life ([7], [8], [9]). This dual capacity of harness—as both a literal tool and a figurative device—reveals the richness with which authors have imbued the term across a wide range of genres and eras ([10], [11], [12]).
- Then Sir Tristram commanded his servant Gouvernail to bring his horse to the land, and dress his harness at all manner of rights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory - I bought of Rodman M. Price a surveyor's compass, chain, etc., and, in San Francisco, a small wagon and harness.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Thy horses shall be trapp’d, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Suffering is necessary... the meaning of all... one must harness...
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - * A fortnight passed; I was getting once more inured to the harness of school, and lapsing from the passionate pain of change to the palsy of custom.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - "I'll go into harness again," he said, "and do my duty in that state of life in which it has pleased Heaven to place me.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - aparejo , m. , harness; apparatus, equipment in any trade; fish-hooks and tackle.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson - 3. Be able to dress a saddle, repair traces, stirrup leathers, etc., and know the various parts of harness.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - 238. --Banner of the Harness-makers of Paris, with the Armorial Bearings of the Corporation.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob - "I wish I were you," sighed the Ass; "nothing to do and well fed, and all that fine harness upon you."
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER Children of the Camp are we, Serving each in his degree; Children of the yoke and goad, Pack and harness, pad and load.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - The shaft had reached him, penetrated through his philosophical harness, to his very heart.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens