So far there had not been a halt in the progress of bucking the line, but when, on the next play, Ed Kerr was called on to go through between left-end and tackle, he felt as if he had hit a number of bags of sand.
But when the line-bucking began something seemed to be the matter with the Randall players.
Snail Looper soon recovered from the effects of the hard Boxer Hall game, and practice was resumed with the 'varsity bucking against the scrub.
There might have been a try for a field goal, but Phil decided there was no chance for it, whereas bucking the line was almost a sure thing.
He learned to ride a bucking jeep with the best of them, and he could spot, single out, and stun a steer in forty seconds flat; then use his electronic brander on it and have the critter back on its feet in just under a minute.
If you will go to sleep an a bucking broncho, you must expect things to happen.
That's so, Joe; but I'm afraid my legs are pretty short to hold on to a bucking horse.
The bucking lasted only for a short time, and soon the horse, forced to it by the quirting, started off in a swift run over the prairie.
There was the usual roping and throwing of steers and the usual riding of bucking broncos by men and women young and old.
He's going to sell 'em in Mountain City and my share is a good bucking horse, like I told you.
The worst I ever did to Oscar Jefferson was to play bucking bronco on that old milch cow, Jinny, of his.
I like Inez," said Peter slowly, "but no one is a good friend of mine who is bucking against Douglas in this stunt he's at himself.
The Bucking Hitch is good to tie things down on a bad horse, but it is otherwise useless to take so much trouble.
In conjunction with half hitches, as later explained, it makes a good hitch for a bucking horse.
Of course you know something of what you're going up against in bucking the Bend?
River boating was good, he said, because it was not opposed to Nature, like climbing mountains, for instance, where you were bucking the law of gravity from start to finish.
Then that mild, gentle, perfectly broken family horse of kind disposition gave about as pretty an exhibition of barbed-wire bucking as you would want to see.
It always turns or comes to pieces on the edge of things; and then you will spend the rest of the morning trailing a wildly bucking horse by the burst and scattered articles of camp duffle.
Of the many hitches that remain, you need learn, to complete your list for all practical purposes, only the Bucking Hitch.
I was out on a snow-bucking expedition one time the next winter, sleeping in cars, shanties or on the engine, and I soon found myself all bunged up with the worst dose of rheumatiz' you ever see.
Her eyes sparkled and her face kindled when I touched on a snow-bucking experience.
It must have been well after midnight that they found themselves "bucking the tiger" in a combination saloon and gambling-house, whose patrons were decidedly cosmopolitan in character.
But the bronco, with the fear of this unknown evil on its soul, varied its bucking so effectively that the puncher astride its hurricane deck was forced, in the language of his kind, to "take the dust.
Perhaps he had had his fill of buckingon that treacherous, slippery wooden floor, but once outside he turned loose the full assortment of the cattle-pony's tricks.
There followed a bewildering exhibition of such bucking that the disgruntled cowboys forgot their shame and shouted with joy.
The horse responded, furiously he responded, but still the lash fell, and the bucking grew more cunning, perhaps, but less violent.
The bucking ended as quickly as it had begun, and they started at a long canter over the trail.
Then, in the very centre of the arena, the stallion stopped in the midst of a twisting course of bucking and stood with widely braced legs and fallen head.
Some of the kind-hearted station folk in the backblocks had sent down some wild warrigals of the West; bucking brumbies that beat the band; old outlaws off the grass that the station hands could never master.
But the bush boys stuck to the saddles as the Old Man of the Sea stuck to Sindbad the Sailor, and one after another the bucking brumbies were broken and led away.
He enjoyed it all, for he was back at his old game of bucking nature.
You see, we're country born, and after bucking with cities for a few years, we kind of feel we like the country best.
This was usually followed by some resolute bucking on the part of two or three of the horses, especially in the early days of each round-up.
Further, I have given my word to do certain work, and in the doing of it I am bucking elements that I cannot always cope with alone.
Things needed looking after, he said; my father's sudden death had left the business without a responsible head, and the ranch foreman and the range boss were bucking each other.
One day on our line of march to the north from Calgary, a constable after the noon hour stop found on mounting his horse that the bronco spirit was still existent, and that bucking was evidently the order of the day.
Travers Gladwin felt it was time for Barnes to take a hand again, as his mental airship was bucking badly in the invisible air currents.
I can see that you need bucking up, and I think I've got the right kind of remedy for you.
What is the use of keeping on trying when one has to be forever bucking against ignorance and stupidity?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bucking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
