One day I took some time hitching my pedometer properly to his belt: I could not wear it effectively myself because I was on horseback.
Slower and slower he comes, as the bullets strike; but he comes, until at last he may be just hitching himself along, his face to the enemy, his fierce spirit undaunted.
In making the hitching tie, first pass the rope from left to right around the post, tree, or stump; bring it together and hold in the left hand.
For the reason that the loop will tighten, the hitching tie should never be used around the neck of a horse, as it might pull tight and the animal be strangled.
It did not lessen as she stood watching the struggle the two men had in again hitching to the buggy the wild black horse.
Along the street, at the edge of the sidewalks of boards, there stood a long line of hitching rails.
For each vanishing saloon there had come a store with its hitching rack for teams.
Of course hitching-posts should be provided, wherever horses are to stand, to remove the temptation of hitching to trees.
Figure 158, however, shows a very good device when a hitching post is not wanted.
Two or three farm waggons already stood at the place of meeting; nobody was in them; the last comer was just hitching his horse to a tree.
She liked it even that in the crowd and the bustle of packing and hitching horses, and getting seated, there was no chance for more than a far-off nod and wave of the hand from the Elmfield parly.
Ram Nad never got over the habit of the hitching post.
He left off breathing one afternoon, in the sunlight, by his hitching post, calm and harmonious, in a Navajo blanket.
I don't know either just why Ram Nad liked to meditate against the hitching post in front of Babbitt's.
I recollect the Chinamen from Chinatown that used to drop around and consult him at the hitching post, but what about I don't know.
He had not heard Paula's brief significant words at the hitching post; nor had he seen Graham catch her in that deep scrutiny of him under the arcade.
That Paula sometimes went for long solitary rides, Graham knew, and, once, he caught her dismounting from the Fawn at the hitching rails.
At the long hitching rails under the oaks, where the dismounting party gathered, Paula was in gales of laughter.
Was she the one, who, under the oaks at the hitching rails, with two brief sentences had cut to the heart of an impending situation?
It was not the first of recent mornings that Dick had so sauntered to the window, to glance out with apparent absentness at the rush of the morning riding party in the last dash home to the hitching rails.
They had finished their coffee and were out in the stack-yard oiling the machine and hitching the horses to the power.
A constant visitor at these little parties is Mrs. Hitching (spoken of elsewhere), and before a certain epoch in her life (See par.
Horses were hanging on loose reins about the sale-yards, or in rows with drooping heads along the hitching posts at the Black Bull and Mrs. Hegarty's.
He held the lamp low, tracing the dark spots across an intervening space to the rear entrance; thence to a hitching rack where several horses still were tethered.
Below it lay the Plaza with its flagpole, its hitching racks for horses and oxen.
Just as Honey came into the summer kitchen with the pail of water, Ella Lou's white nose showed outside the door by the hitching post and Cousin Roxana's voice called to them.
Glorious victory of the Confederate arms," he shouted, jumping off the steps of the store in which the post-office was located, and running full tilt toward the place where Jack and Marcy were hitching their horses.
As Marcy expected, the first one to rush out of the post-office and greet them, as they were hitching their horses, was young Allison.
Between four and five Fitzpiers arrived, hitching his horse to the hook outside the door.
It will be a blessing if we get there,' observed Jack to the liveried stable-lad, as the old bag of bones of a mare went hitching and limping away.
The annual inspection of the department showed that the quickest average time in hitching a team was 3.
She did not check her horse until under the tree, where she alighted, by a single bound, and hitching the animal to a hook in the tree, she moved swiftly toward the house.
Some day a story must be written called The Hitching Post, about those thousands of little cast-iron negro boys who stand so patiently on the green grass strips along village streets waiting to hold long-forgotten bridle reins.
For apart from any question of success or fame he had loved horses from the day when as a baby he had first sprawled in the straw of his Uncle Mike Aherne's livery and hitching stable in Dublin City.
A straggling group of people followed the bus and the row of hitching posts on Tremont Street was already lined with buggies in which farmers and their wives had driven into town for the evening of shopping and gossip.
Down Main street, I espied a patent night-lunch wagon standing by the curb, and hitching Mac to the hind axle, I went in for a bite.
Pretty soon the latter returned with a sand turtle and, hitching it up in a rope harness, said he was going to keep it for a pet.
