In that yellow streak of horse, that low-bending, bony rider, he saw a possibility of defeat and disgrace.
The customer was a man of considerable length and many angles, a shorn appearance about his face, especially his big, bony nose, that seemed to tell of a mustache sacrificed in the operation just then drawing to a close.
Lambert smiled as he recalled the three-cornered rivalry for Alta's bony hand.
But she had the legs for speed in spite of the sloping croup, and plenty of chest at the girth, and a small, bony head that rejoiced the heart of a horseman.
The sheriff made no answer, but Vic saw the little bony hand tense about the barrel of the rifle.
The event proved it wise, for his giraffe neck lengthened under his angry gulps, his bony hands and nodding head emphasized and attested Jean's scathing deliverence upon men in general.
Aunt Em'ly was in reality merely standing up for the rights of her own especial white folks, but to the dazed old man she seemed like a symbolic figure of famine and disaster, lean and gaunt, pointing a long, bony finger at him.
The little fellow jerked at the bony hand which held his, and prattled and questioned, begged and grew petulant, in a vain effort to make his father talk to him.
In the midst of the most impassioned or pathetic portions of his speech, he would extend his long arms toward the judge or jury, and shake his bony fingers with an effect that is indescribable.
The paper, finding insufficient resting-place upon the bony knee, took occasion to flap idly in the gentle southerly breeze; upon which the child took hold of it with a quaint air of helpfulness which was singularly womanly.
Beside him sat the husband of one of them, a tall, gaunt ranchman, with his legs crossed, poising upon a bony knee an atom of humanity in a short plaided woollen frock.
One day as I was walking down town I met two men leading a poor, old, bony horse out of town and carrying a gun.
She is too small to work on a farm, and as you've got a big bony cuss there that would make a good plow hoss, I'll give you a big trade.
The Auvergne peasant herself suddenly appeared before him like a shadow in the dusk; a perverse freak of the poet within him found a vague resemblance between her black and white striped petticoat and the bony frame of a spectre.
The thing was getting on my nerves to that extent that I know I was on the verge of screaming out, when I saw a hand grasp the lintel of the doorway--a thin bony hand, that gripped the wood tenaciously.
Not a word was said for a long time; until presently, leaning across the table, and tapping upon it with his long bony fingers, he whispered a word or two that startled me.
In this age occur the first traces of mammals, and birds, and fishes with bony skeletons.
The sponge, however, as we see it in our bathrooms, is only the framework, bony structure, or skeleton of the animal.
One day he took home a big bony horse, which he had got cheap, because no-one else had any use for it; another day he brought Soerine home.
Maren had barely finished speaking, when a cart with a bony old nag in the shafts stopped outside on the road.
When he went through the loose sand, his great bonyhands on his thighs, he looked as if he were walking on all fours.
It looked as if it was made of odd parts, so bony and misshapen was it.
In addition to these, they contain those mineral elements of which the bony structure of the body is composed, viz.
They overlook the fact that the man whose bonystructure is well overlaid with thick layers of healthy muscular tissue is able not only to accomplish more work, but to stand greater exposure and endure more hardships than the lean man.
This case is important as proving that proper physical exercise will materially change even the bony structure of the body.
The bony framework of the thoracic cavity in its natural shape is an irregular cone, whose apex is at the neck, and whose widest part, or base, is formed by the spread of the lower ribs.
A good mattress is neither too soft nor too hard, but yields to the exterior bony processes of the body without engulfing the sleeper.
A coarse jest passed round when a tall, bony woman came up, a man's overcoat, thrown over her shoulders, barely covering her nightdress.
Bony fish, such as herring and shad, which are too small to use otherwise are greatly improved when subjected to steam under pressure.
Put the lean and bony parts to soak over night in cold water in order to extract the blood and dirt.
This man, if man I may call him, was bony and ill-built, and appeared to consist largely of hands and feet.
He crept forward, grinding his teeth and rubbing his bony hands, and subsided into a waste-paper basket which was the only available seat left unoccupied.
There was a world of meaning and emphasis in the long, bony finger of the right hand as he dotted the ideas on the minds of his hearers.
He had begun to rub his hands wretchedly back and forth over his bony knees, as if in that way he somewhat alleviated the tedium caused by her racking voice.
Look there, and there, and there," and his bony finger pointed to every corner of the saloon.
As he set down his glass he placed his long, bonyfinger upon my arm.
He was now close to Barrett, hisbony fist slashing the air over the baron's shrinking head.
The woodsman who stood over him, his gaunt face seamed and brown, his bony frame erect to the height that had won him the sobriquet of "Ladder" Lane, seemed now the man of dignity and authority.
The warden's groping hands had clutched the heavy lineman's climbers dangling from his belt, and were now set about them so tightly that muscles were ridged on the bony surface.
She is bony all over, and her eyes flash, and she drives about in a mortar, beating it with a pestle, and sweeping up her tracks with a besom, so that you cannot tell which way she has gone.
But that night, as they lay sleeping on the stove, the old woman poked the old man in the ribs with her bony elbow.
Allan, on corals; and the bony apparatus within their bodies seems well adapted for this end.
Mr. Liesk assured us that he had repeatedly seen whole shoals grazing with their strong bony jaws on the tops of the coral branches: I opened the intestines of several and found them distended with yellowish calcareous sandy mud.
At length, taking his pipe from his mouth, he reared his hideous body in the glow of the morning, and with a long, bony arm, raised his pipe to the smiling sun in silent invocation.
Beating his breast and gesticulating wildly with his long, bony arms, the old man passed back amid the tepees.
With a long, bony arm the rider pointed to the westward and again he cried in a weak, broken voice: “Tae!
