Citations:stalking-horse


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For if it be unlawful to follow Christ for loaves, (as it is in the sixth of John), how much more abominable is it to make of him and religion a stalking-horse to get and enjoy the world!
 * Their daughter and their cattle were that which they sought to obtain, and their religion the stalking-horse they made use of to come at them.