Tom, as he and Mark stood watching Marcy's filly spatter the mud along the road.
Taking this for a signal, Marcy mounted his filly and set out for home; and, as he expected, found Hawkins in the lonely place in the road where he had held two interviews with Aleck Webster.
I see Morris over town yesterday, and right there he is going to stay till you come to ride the filly home.
He went into the house to tell his mother what he had learned, and finding his fillyat the door when he came back, he mounted and rode away.
On this particular morning he felt so very gloomy that he did not ride his filly to town, as was his usual custom, but sent old Morris and a mule instead.
Acting upon the first thought that came into his mind, Marcy urged his filly forward, intending to speak to the man, and Hanson, nothing loath, turned his horse about to wait for him.
When he had eaten all the breakfast he wanted, Marcy mounted his mother's horse, that had been brought to the door in place of his filly which old Morris had taken to Nashville, and galloped out of the yard.
He blessed the splendid filly racing so true and so strong beneath him, and he sat down for the first time to help her with every ounce of his power and every trace of his skill.
A frenzy of pride and love for the filly swept over him.
A storm of dirt clods smote the filly in the face.
The second was Kate Greenaway, a three-year-old filly by King Faraway, whose only claim to distinction was that she had won third place in the Futurity of the preceding year.
He ate scarcely any dinner and roved restlessly about until it was time to take the filly to the paddock.
Tim knew the filly as no one else knew her or could know her.
Somewhere in her straining, breathless, driven body the filly had one ounce more left.
In 1836 General Jackson had a filly of his own raising brought from the Hermitage and entered for a race by Major Donelson, his private secretary.
The stallion of my choice grazed with a filly and two yearlings a little apart from the balance of the herd and nearest to the forest and to me.
Nobs was between him and the main herd, to which the yearling and filly had already fled.
He made a bill of sale, or something, making the filly over to me; but I was a minor, and after father died my guardian had that bill of sale.
When they all went out to see the little, awkward, kicking colt in the big box stall, separated from its whinnying mother by a strong barred fence, the owner of the stables had laughingly named the filly after his sister.
But," Ida told them, "father told Aunt Ida that the filly was to be my property.
I bet you my roan filly Calceolaria against your colt Jockeyclub that before Christmas is out Violet Tressillian will be Violet Telfer.
So Telfer and I exchanged the roan filly and the colt, and Calceolaria in the Torwood stables, and Jockey Club in my stalls, stand witnesses to this day of OUR WAGER, AND HOW THE MAJOR LOST AND WON.
The filly was now a sleek and shapely animal, past three years of age.
Allen complained, shortly, that Shakespeare and the filly had interfered with the potatoes and the corn.
He learned only a poor lesson the first day, for, on coming in sight of the schoolhouse, he heard a rush of feet behind him and saw his filly charging down the trail.
The little filly began to rear and call, the mother to answer.
A stranger came along, riding a big mare with a young filly at her side.
The little fillystood over him and rubbed her silky muzzle on his neck, and kicked up her heels in play as he pushed her back.
He had caught the filly by her little plume and stood patting her forehead.
The filly ceased to take food and sickened for a time after the dam left her.
The nag of Richard, when it reached one of these gaps, laid its nose along the logs and stepped across the difficult passage with the sagacity of a man; but the blooded filly which Miss Temple rode disdained so humble a movement.
Why, it just killed the best filly on my plantation, my best running stock, too.
You would have trained that filly and paid a couple of hundred for it.
Look here," said he, "you owe me for that filly of mine yet.
Now, if this road paid you fifteen dollars for that filly and saved you twenty-five hundred or three thousand into the bargain, how ought you to feel about it?
That filly would have seen Churchill Downs in her day, if she had lived.
Archibald Floyd did his best to be interested in the event which was so interesting to his children; but he freely confessed to his grandniece, Lucy, that he heartily wished the Meeting over, and the merits of the bay filly decided.
The filly was walking to and fro on the naked floor of the stable (for he would not let her have any straw, until he should make a bed for her), and without so much as a headstall on, for he would not have her fastened.
I sold my Rosemary filly to-day on the course to Bentman the bookie, and he paid me in notes.
The fellow's mad over losing the price of that filly now she's won the Cambridgeshire.
Tense too] You gave me that filly to save yourself her keep, and you've been mad about it ever since; you knew from Goole that I had sold her to Kentman and been paid in cash, yet I heard you myself deny that you knew it.
It was his business ter watch Smith; an' ef my little filly was cut down in that ther slide, Stratton's got to reckon 'ith me.
An' ef that smart little filly o' mine went down in ther slide, I 'low an extry pack-horse went with her.
An' she always lets on she thinks er sight more o' that there sorrel filly than she does o' Mill.
Er man's got ter handle her 'bout like that ther sorrel filly of Mill Thornton's.
But I’ve met with just as fine a bit of stuff, a lovely young fillydown at Ludred.
A thoroughbred filly three years old is more graceful than any woman that ever stepped.
By Gosh, I mean it,’ says he; ‘and the sweetest young filly as ever looked through a riband.
She plucked up spirit enough to refuse to be bought and sold like a pedigree filly or heifer.
She forced aside the all-too-affectionate, bay filly who crowded upon her, shot back the bar of the gate and relocked it.
Dickie, his eyes following the graceful chestnut filly as she was led in over the threshold of her stable.
Her daddy, old man Galloway, had a thoroughbred filly that he named Kathleena for his daughter, an' she c'ud do anything that the gal left out.
So I went after the old man this a way: I told him I'd buy the filly if he'd give me Kathleen.
At her request the filly was saddled and she rode over the ranch, critically inspecting her new possessions.
You look like your mammy, Miss, and she were the puttiest filly that ever run over this range!
He did not deem it necessary to say that the filly was his own personal property, originally designed as a gift for Grace.
He was, however, very explicit as to the horses that he deemed safe for her use, particularly recommending a bay filly which he had broken especially for her personal service.
He sticks this filly in a six-furlong event, with the idea of really going after the purse, which he requires for expenses.
It was a filly that could as a matter of fact beat anything at the track, being right and on edge, and she had the additional advantage of not being known all about.
Well, the poor owner doesn't race his good filly again for a couple of weeks, and all the time she's getting good.
He knows that the filly isn't right, but he dopes it that she can beat the lot pitted against her, anyhow, and he really means her to win.
If any of the pikers had even a dream of doing such a thing the stable hand's drunken recommendation of the filly switched them off.
Being hard pressed the Sheik was compelled to remount his mare and again seek safety in flight, abandoning the newborn filly to her fate.
When a mare has dropped a mule colt or filly we bring it up with care.
This was his single thought while the larks sang above him, and the grassy downs smelled sweet, and the pretty filly passed, tossing her head and glowing like satin.
The fact was he had acquired a half share in a filly of George Forsyte's, who had gone irreparably on the turf, to the horror of Roger, now stilled by the grave.
An' Luke agreed ter so do; but he didn't want ter be outdone, so fur the keep o' the filly he gin the Cunnel a heifer.
Why, even that thar leetle filly of our'n, though she hedn't been fairly bruk ter the plough, war mightily missed.
But we ain't never fund no trace o' the filly sence she war tolled off one night las' fall a year ago.
