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Example sentences for "bronchos"

Lexicographically close words:
bronchi; bronchial; bronchitic; bronchitis; broncho; bronchus; bronco; broncos; bronk; bronks
  1. Davison was trying to hold the bronchos and keep them quiet in the beating rain.

  2. As the bronchos climbed to the summit of a low divide, giving a long view of the trail, Justin saw Ben, far ahead, nearing the town.

  3. The bronchos will manage that, where an Eastern horse would break his neck and yours, too.

  4. It added piquancy, if not sport, to the twilight drive to know that one of the two bronchos in harness had never been driven before.

  5. The bronchos seemed to catch her excitement, their weariness disappeared, and, pulling hard on the bit, they tore down the winding trail as if at the beginning rather than at the end of their hundred and fifty mile drive.

  6. But Smith was already leading the bronchos away to the stable.

  7. The agonized watchers saw the rider lean far over the bronchos and seize one line, then gradually begin to turn the flying ponies away from the cut bank and steer them in a wide circle across the prairie.

  8. The bronchos had a hundred yards of a start, but they had not run another hundred until the agonized group of watchers could see that the stallion was gaining rapidly upon them.

  9. He pulled up his bronchos with half a mind to turn them about and pursue the flying Indians.

  10. He gave his excited bronchos their head and sailed into town, drawing up in magnificent style at the Royal Hotel.

  11. He proved adequate and careful, and she was proud of him as, with foot on the brake and the bronchos well in hand, he swung down the long looping road to the railway.

  12. These bronchos are only about half busted," she said.

  13. One of the bronchos suddenly reared backward.

  14. The team of six bronchos fought against the weight of the lumbering vehicle behind, with stiff front legs threw themselves back against their harness.

  15. Talk no longer lagged, whatever our bronchos did; but, indeed, all we said was better heard by two than three.

  16. Only an occasional snarl from the dogs, or the angry squeals of my bronchos kicking the Indian ponies, broke the utter stillness.

  17. They tore down Diable's tepee, stringing the poles on the bronchos stolen from me and leaving Miriam's white tent with the Sioux.

  18. Those bronchos are nosing a bit too close, I'm thinkin'!

  19. Don't be telling me y'r bronchos are not slow!

  20. Riders could scarcely gain saddles, and before feet were well in the stirrups, the bronchos had reared and bolted away, only to be reined sharply in and brought back to the ranks.

  21. We've followed their tracks through the sucking ooze, Where our bronchos sank to their steaming hips.

  22. Marry, me children, but y'r bronchos are bog-spavined and spring-halted.

  23. The horses of the Russian steppes, and the bronchos and ponies of our far Western country, are apt to have the vicious, genuine buck in perfection.

  24. We knew it to be Indian signals and so rode our bronchos into a clump of bushes on the river banks in order to be out of sight.

  25. In either event, we felt fairly safe, as our bronchos were in good condition, were splendid animals, and as we had used them well of late, we believed we could outdistance them if they proved to be hostile Indians.

  26. Of course a good many of them were ridden last year, but there are a lot of bronchos among them.

  27. The next day the work of breaking in the bronchos commenced.

  28. We shall have to ride some of the bronchos when we are on duty.

  29. We cannot have green fields just for bronchos to gambol in, or roads where they can trot unharnessed and nibble by the way.

  30. I am as afraid of bronchos and mules as I am of buzz saws.

  31. I’ve busted bronchos in my day, and learning to skate is a parlor pastime compared with that job.

  32. When he tells about living on a ranch and herding cattle and breaking bronchos and chasing rustlers and catching horse thieves, he gives me a cramp.

  33. A pair of vicious, half-broken bronchos were backing a light wagon away from the locomotive on the other side of the track, and a fur-wrapped figure sat stiffly on the driving seat.

  34. Lucifer was exercising all the tricks known to wild and terrified bronchos when they first feel saddle and bridle, and which seem to be inbred in them.

  35. They tried to read, but in place of the print on the pages pictures of cowboys and bucking bronchos danced before their eyes, and they soon shut their books.

  36. And he led the way to where four bronchos stood tied to a railing.

  37. And thus endeth the account of how the bronchos were busted.

  38. It's to teach Mrs. Granger that Texas has something besides bucking bronchos and prairie fires.

  39. Indians and prairie fires and bucking bronchos and buffaloes.

  40. Maybe you want me to go and tell Hermit Joe not to be afraid of bronchos and buffaloes," laughed Genevieve.

  41. The clatter of the waggon had ceased, the figure of the driver was concealed by the curtains; but the bronchos were still tugging at the bit, still--.

  42. I told them I got out to shoot at a coyote, and the bronchos ran away.

  43. In the barn the bronchos were passively waiting.

  44. I see a row of bronchos tied down in front of Red's place.

  45. What courage and what temerity did those early pioneers possess who first ventured to cross it with their lumbering prairie-schooners or on their grass-fed bronchos from the Eastern plains!

  46. And the way those lassos swung and reached and dropped over the fleeing bronchos was in itself a sight worth stopping to see.

  47. I've busted all the bronchos for fun I'm going to," Mose replied.

  48. Well, I'll just naturally throw the saddles on a couple of bronchos and we'll go see the folks.

  49. Chunky, help lead those bronchos to the water hole, will you?

  50. Laughing uproariously, the cowboys forced their bronchos between Bud and the others, cutting him off and bidding him attend to his own business.

  51. No sooner had their bronchos set foot on the desert than a sudden panic once more possessed them.

  52. They cleared the intervening space that lay between them and the fat boy's pony in a series of convulsive leaps that the bronchos took under the urgent pressure of the rowels of their riders' spurs.

  53. The horse-hunters hurled their bronchos right against the wall of fleeing animals.

  54. We'll head hack toward the San Antonio Range as fast as the bronchos will carry us.

  55. The bronchos pricked forward their ears at the sound of galloping hoofs.

  56. Chuck and Bert reined their bronchos up to Parker.

  57. Skinny, Chuck and Bert sat gloomily, moodily, on their bronchos and watched Thunderbolt lead the quintette of running horses.

  58. They saddled the bronchos and rode out of the barn.

  59. Freed from their burdens the bronchos dragged tired heels through the dust as they whirled and trotted unsteadily away to the pasture, eager to roll and relax their aching muscles.

  60. He heard Carolyn June talking to the bronchos in soft endearing tones.

  61. Parker and the cowboys were just splashing their bronchos into the water at the lower ford.

  62. They set their bronchos at a gallop and moved rapidly through the pass.

  63. The whole bunch of bronchos may be up here, but it's the only way into the Basin; and, once in, they may get behind us.

  64. In the midst of a nightmare that lived over his flight from the bronchos across the desert, he was roused with a start to alert wakefulness.

  65. The bronchos have us headed off from the other tanks.

  66. If that bunch of bronchos is anywhere within fifteen miles--with a clear view this way--we can expect a visit.

  67. Instead of that straightforward, above-board procedure, she had risked shooting him, had deceived him, had led him into a trap where he would have had to kill all the bronchos or be killed.

  68. That sure would tell the bronchos where we are.

  69. Either the bronchos will get us both, or we're going to win through to the ranch together.

  70. Happens I know that a bunch of bronchos are loose over this way.

  71. But it won't hurt to show those bronchos the range of your rifle.

  72. He tied the reins to the seat, gave his bronchos a parting lash, took a flask from his pocket, and got down on his knees beside the sick man.

  73. He gave himself to the business of getting out of the bronchos all the speed they had.

  74. The bronchos after their fifteen-mile drive along the unspeakable bush roads, finding the smooth surface of the railway grade beneath their feet, set off at a good lope.

  75. Mile after mile the bronchos kept up their tireless lope, encouraged by the cheery admonitions and the cracking whip of their driver.

  76. Mr. Connors flushed under his accumulated tan as he remembered the varied pleasures of Santa Fe, and he regarded the bronchos in anything but a pleasant state of mind.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bronchos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.