No tension showed in his long limbs or sturdy neck.

The woman knelt down and hugged the animal, resting her forehead against the sturdy neck of the little filly.

She rubbed Whinney's soft nose and, putting an arm around the sturdy neck, gently urged the horse into the cave.

She cried the horse's name over and over again, wrapping her arms around the sturdy neck and burying her face in the shaggy winter coat.

She leaned her cheek against Fortune's sturdy neck and sighed.

The mare approached and put her head across Ayla's shoulder, while the woman hugged the sturdy neck.

Out in the writhing river, the Lamiae's coils slid upward, wrapping about the Makkon's sturdy thick neck.

Stretching the springy metal apart, she placed it over Canthus's head to lock firmly about his sturdy neck.

His gaze traveled from the bottom to the top of the bosom, changing focus the whole way, and then encountered a soft, pale, yet sturdy neck.

One woman, with a sturdy neck, a cap of frizzed hair and a candid, unfazable gaze, could be a suburban mom.