If a kitten, calf orcolt be starved or crippled while young, they will rarely outgrow these defects.
For awhile I looked at thecolt with admiration and wonder.
When a colt is born or a calf, or kitten, or pigs, she always asks the same question.
When kittens, pups, pigs, a calf, a colt are born, the child very naturally asks about their origin.
When only a small boy, I was called from my bed early one spring morning to see a beautifulcolt the mare had found.
Hopalong, with Red inconsiderately stepping on his heels, felt his way along the wall of the crevice, alert and silent, his Colt nestling comfortably in his right hand, while the left was pushed out ahead feeling for trouble.
Got to do something, anyhow," he explained, lowering the Colt and peering across the plain.
His fingers found only leather and he swore fiercely as he remembered--he had sold the Colt for food and kept the rifle for defence.
Once more it arose, nearer, and Johnny peered into the shadows along a rough backbone of rock, his Colt balanced in his half-raised hand.
As he paused for breath something made him leap up and to one side, reaching for his Colt at the same instant.
A realist, a cynic, and an absolute genius with a Colt .
The foreman got there before him and, shoving his Colt out first to clear the way, yelled with rage and pain as a pole hit his wrist and knocked the weapon out of his hand.
Mr. Cassidy's mouth opened and then clicked shut as his Colt swung down.
He examined his rifle and saw that theColt at his thigh was fully loaded and in good working order.
I'm not any fancy Colt expert, but I'm damned if I won't take a chance in that game with any man as totes a gun.
Riding gloomily back to where the riot of color fluttered on the grass he drew hisColt and sent six bullets through it with a great amount of satisfaction.
With head and hand, at risk of life and limb, to bit and break a wild colt and win it to the service of man, was to him no less great an achievement.
Only give me a coltof wild, irregular temper and fierce blood to tame, and I am perfectly happy.
I was never hit, but one fine young colt was badly cut in the face, and I should think it would be a scar for life.
Mr. Colt had considerable difficulty in securing a patent for his revolver.
Well, sir, when I was a kid I had a colt that stuck its foreleg in a hole and busted it short and when that colt had to be shot they wasn't no holdin' me.
She was in foal, and the colt in due course had been sold, and in some obscure and involved cattle deal had become the property of Paul Sam, who had let him run with his cayuses.
Now, in his opinion, he could make a killing and spoil the Egyptian, alias the white man, if only the colt were properly trained and ridden.
What will you be charging for a month or two's grass for this colt I've bought from my dacent friend, Denis O'Shaughnessy, here?
The saddle that had been on the colt was strapped about him with the bridle, for both had been borrowed from a neighbor.
The promise of the colt made to the priest with such an air of authority, was a finale which the father did not expect, and by which he was not a little staggered.
A few of Denis's relations were assembled, and in their presence the arrangements respecting the colt and Denny's clerical prospects were privately concluded.
He was advancing at a brisk trot, not upon the colt which had been presented to him, but upon his old nag, which seemed to feel as eager to get at Denis's oats, as its owner did to taste his mutton.
Next morning Father Finnerty paid Denis a timely visit, having first, as he had been directed, sent home the colt a little after day-break.
As he dodged and ran I fired at him, but never a bullet touched the brute and I flung the Colt away with an oath.
Your skittish colt makes the best horse, and so would he.
No doubt Socrates said that he was the gadfly of the State and stung that noble animal into action, but what may be good for a sluggish old coach-horse is not necessarily good for a thoroughbred colt with a thin skin.
But though Providence was my guide, I was not yet confined to any fixed course, but with joyous inconsequence raced up and down the paths of the Dialectical Paradise as unconscious and as unashamed as a colt in a green meadow.
The air of Oxford did not repress but greatly stimulated my love of verse and belles-lettres, and I careered over the green pastures of our poetry like the colt let loose that I was.
Thereupon the colt she harnessed, In the front she yoked the bay one, 350 And she placed old Väinämöinen In the sledge behind the stallion.
Wall, that night Josiah Allen wuz a-feelin' dretful neat, fer he had sold our sorell colt for a awful big price.
Carbine in hand, Colt in holster, I arrived at his residence.
Then the rope was taken off and away the colt went as fast as possible, with one man on each side to shove you either way, all the time bucking and plunging.
Pink and Jerry took Circe to the captain's quarters, where Pink took his seat for the plan's direction, Jerry holding the Colt on Circe and the dying giant.
Martian spear-guns and antiquated jet-pistols; a Derringer, a Colt .
Jerry staggered back, a look of amazement spreading over his face; he fired the Colt wildly, putting a slug into the floor.
Nevertheless, he aimed the Colt full into the gargantuan face before him, and pulled the trigger.
Jerry was aiming theColt at him; accidentally, Pink hoped.
We may think of the owner of the colt as friendly toward their Master.
A colt unused, and so fitted by custom for sacred purposes, was ready for His use.
Then the nincompoops who refused to attend to danger-signals saw that the beautiful colt which had spun over the same course like a greyhound only ten months before was unable to gallop at all.
Soon afterwards a beautiful colt that had won the Derby was persistently backed for the City and Suburban Handicap.
What manliness can there be in watching a poor baby-colt flogged along by a dwarf?
In 1887 a colt was brought out for the first time to run for the greatest of all Turf prizes.
That same donkey colt was so essential to the transaction of that day, that the pageant could not have gone on without it.
I had been 'blowing,' Australian fashion, that I could handle that colt if nobody else was able to.
Or the colt in the meadow beyond the hockey field," said Lennie.
Miss Poppleton's amazement and horror at finding one of her pupils mounted on the back of an unbroken colt were almost too great for words.
Summoning up its courage, the colt stretched out its nose to take the tempting bread.
Halter-breaking a colt is almost as good as breaking steers, only there is no sled-riding to be had in this.
