He stared a moment, and in silence brooded, Then in his breast a pious frenzy rose And every other prudent thought excluded; He caught a lasso, and dashed in a canter After that Occidental Atalanta.
In actual experience, however, girls grow up, whereas the popular fiction of the United States has done its best to keep them forever children.
The Revolt from the Village Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, E.
So off he went at a canter over the low stone walls, across the potato-fields, through the dried torrent-beds, in a direction quite opposite to that which his compagnons de route had chosen.
Our pack-horse, exhilarated by the fine fresh air of the morning, and a hearty breakfast, thought that a nice canter across the plain of Cettinje would be a pleasant way of beginning the day.
Dinsmore 's makin' for Palo Duro," remarked Wilkins as they followed at a canter the plain trail marked for them.
Even should he break into a canter and become impetuous at last, there is no space for a violent rush in three strides, during which you must hold him in a firm, equable grasp.
In the canter it stands to reason that he should lead with the inner leg, otherwise it is very possible he may cross the other over it, and fall like a lump of lead.
When he has learnt to canterround the school, and sit firm over a leaping bar, with his feet swinging loose, and his hands in his pockets, he will have become a better horseman than ninety-nine out of every hundred who go out hunting.
There were stray and half-wild pigs that had tails to be bitten, and what could be more exhilarating than making a drove of grunting pigs canter like a hailstorm away into deep woods!
The first messenger they met entered on the 'pike from a cross-road some distance ahead of them, but was checked in his canter toward Greenfield by Zene, who stopped the wagon for a parley.
Soma under his breath as he watched his Colonel canter quietly into danger.
Wright's long legs barely carried him fast enough to stop this fatal stampede, but the ridiculous sight was due to the fact that old Jehu caught the infection and set off at a sprawling canter in Chinaman's wake.
Chinaman evidently didn't like being left behind and set off at a canter to rejoin the main body.
The little beast was off at a canter at once and on slippery snow; it was all Evans could do to hold to the bridle.
The snow's not frozen--shall we canter home, Monseigneur?
Then the cavalry came up, to the beautiful cavalry canter of "Bonnie Dundee," and Vixen cocked her ear where she sat on the dog-cart.
I want free life and I want free air, And I sigh for the canter after the cattle, The crack of whips like shots in battle, The mêlée of horns and hoofs and heads.
Again, when he took a preliminary canter before the drug had time to act, he moved with great strength and with the freedom of a greyhound; yet within three minutes he was no more than an inert mass of flesh and bone.
A scrimmage in a border station, A canter down some dark defile-- Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail!
As they rode at a fair canter down the trail he was amused to hear the cowboys argue among themselves as to which one of them the girls had waved at.
They were riding at an easy canter and had covered about fifteen miles.
I kept his mule in front of me at a 'galope,' or rather at a sort of shuffling canter which was all she was equal to.
Jane released her horse and watched him canter over to the stable.
I like it better even than golf, and will also give up my canteron Firefly this afternoon to see it through.
Let us have a sharp canter out to that bend in the creek and back, then we must hasten home before the evening dampness sets in.
Very early--for we are going for a canter before breakfast.
And then he would take her and Varina off for a canter over the hills.
His horse, Satan, had been particularly fresh, and he had been obliged to give him an extra canter twice round the Row, before coming in, and was breakfast ready?
Upon its back did I see a portly gentleman bestride himself, and forthwith begin to canter towards me, followed at a somewhat splitting pace by two keepers on foot, each armed either with guns or sticks, which I could not easily distinguish.
Honest William Cobbett had made no secret of his conviction that Moonbeam was going to canter away with the Guineas, and in the ring his patron's horse was favorite at five to two.
She would neither canter nor trot; it was with difficulty that she could be induced to walk, and then only at a snail's-pace; apparently she wanted to fly.
Across the track, dim in the gray light, a horse broke swiftly from a canter into the full racing stride.
Ten days later Fairfax, running in Old Man Curry's colours and under the name of Eliphaz, won a cheap selling race from very bad horses--won it in a canterafter leading all the way.
Canter him the usual distance, Dutchy," said the owner.
That's why I have Dutchy take him out on a country road and canter him.
How few ladies remember, as for hours they canter up and down Rotten Row, that that famous promenade is a mile and a quarter in length, so ten turns make twelve miles and a half.
The same rules should be observed for making a horse canter with the right leg, but the right rein should be only drawn enough to develop his right nostril.
He should never be compelled to canter in the longe, though he may be permitted to do it of himself.
Her cheeks were flushed becomingly and her eyes shone, but at the end of that sharp littlecanter much of the brightness faded and her face clouded.
