Just hear the bay horse Whinin' in his stall, Purrin' like a pussy cat When he hears me call.
But if Squire's lawyer Serves me with his writ, I'll take the bay horse To Marley gravel pit.
THE BAY HORSE [36] Squire wants the bay horse, For it is the best.
The carriage had been overturned by the first desperate rush of the victims, and the horse was clearing a space around himself by the free use of his heels.
Hazelton swung his whip around, striking the speaker full in the face, and causing the horse to plunge and rear, but yet the fellows kept their hold.
Did you count on buying your stuff in this one-horse town?
I am afraid indeed, that with all your Religion and Loyalty, you could not have made much use of the White Horse of Death, or the White Horse of Hanover.
Xanthus the Grecian Conjuring Horse, whose prophecies are celebrated by Homer, down to the Learned Little Horseover Westminster Bridge!
America, where his lordship being on foot, and having to march nearly five miles over a sandy plain in the heat of summer, fortunately discovered, tied to the door of a house, a horse belonging to an officer of cavalry.
The horse rose, but not high enough,--my father helped it by lifting its head: it was vain!
Just as he was about to gallop off a horse and horseman broke from behind the hedge, at the near end of the walk.
That is easier said than done; one man can bring the horse to the water, ten cannot make it drink.
At the end stood Archy Forbes, holding a horse ready saddled.
This is more and more extraordinary; if he had no horse he cannot be far.
You must feel your rudder, as you would the mouth of your horse with the bit, and not do any thing violent, except in urgent necessity.
I wondered afterwards, when I recalled the calm gaze with which he glanced along the line, and chose the horse whose appearance promised the best speed.
The youngest boy, with a great spotted wooden horse in his hand, was approaching to embrace the infant in such fashion as made the toy look dangerous, and the left hand of the mother was lifted with a motion of warning and defence.
They entered the only cab that remained, the most dilapidated one of all, and the driver of which had no little difficulty in setting his horse in motion; whereupon the gentlemen went off on foot.
The cab horse soon slackened its pace to climb the acclivity of the Rue d'Amsterdam; and shortly afterward the vehicle drew up in the courtyard of the railway station.
They were not long in reaching their destination, for the horse was really a good one, and the driver had been stimulated by the promise of a magnificent gratuity.
Madame d'Argeles's horse went swiftly enough, but the agent's emissary had the limbs and the endurance of a stag, and he kept pace with the victoria without much difficulty.
But when I got amongst that bunch, there sat Ida in her buggy and nobody hurt, not even the horseor the vehicle.
He can't bear to see the whip used, or to see a horse pull hard.
Lewis was still down town, three miles away, with his two-horse wagon, to get a load of manure.
Says Lewis: "Then who sent the horse there in sich a shape?
He soon asked for money to buy a horse and light wagon,--because the trains did not run at church time on Sunday and his wife found it rather far to walk.
Franklin saw Grant tumble from his horse drunk, while reviewing troops in New Orleans.
She followed it with a sort of scream, "Her horse is running away!
He drew up his horse instinctively, and stood endeavouring to collect his ideas, while a few paces brought her up to his horse's head.
The servant who led and delivered the horse was taken prisoner, and carried to Carlisle, where he was tried and condemned.
Being somewhat afraid of the fatigue of walking so far, I inquired if a horse or any sort of carriage was to be had, and was answered in the negative.
The good man was somewhat startled to behold an armed Highlander, then so unusual a sight, and apparently much agitated, stop his horse by the bridle, and ask him with a faltering voice the day of the week and month.
But there are limitations even to the capabilities of a three and a half horse power motor.
His next step was to release the horse from the shafts and to set the animal adrift, after having removed the bit.
Fifteen minutes later the battleplane again came to rest on the Horse Guards Parade.
The next instant she was soaring swiftly above the dirty grey stone work of the buildings of the Horse Guards.
As for the disguised German von Stein, he clambered into the cart, and, setting the horse at a leisurely pace, drove off in the direction of Weert, a town lying a few miles within the Dutch frontier.
Unerringly Blake brought the battleplane towards the gravelled expanse of the Horse Guards Parade.
We might, with luck, get a fellow with a horseto pull the bike to the top of the hill.
Illustration: THE COOK] We soon had another horsetrade under way, however, which was quite a ludicrous affair.
I put in part of the time trying to make a horse trade in the street in front of the store.
By this time Pete had ridden Dixie alongside and with a smile asked, "What sort of a buggy horse do you suppose Craig will have when he gets Cyclone rested up?
If he refused to pull, I could probably talk him out of it, and as a tired horse soon gets to be a good horse, I was pretty sure that I could make a tired horse out of him very shortly and, therefore, a good one.
Our road led straight up onto the mesa, a five-mile climb, and here it was that our new horse showed his poor qualities to advantage, or rather, our old horses showed their good ones.
He had never ridden a horse in his life probably and was as surprised as any one at his antics.
He brought out the saddle horse which looked like a good one, but I didn't want to trade horses; I wanted to sell one.
We jumped up and each one of us was about to take a horse and ride for his life, when the Doctor laughed and said, "It is an eclipse of the moon.
Our new horse Cyclone was a bit fast and flighty, but so far not harmful, and we took special pains to see that he did not break loose and go back home.
Bess merely looked around and seemed to think a horse fly had stung her.
We really were in no position to crow over the trade until we knew the sort ofhorse we had.
The black man whisked him like a child astride the horse and away he galloped in the midst of a thunder-storm.
The steward had a rusty blunderbuss; the coachman a loaded whip; the footman a pair of horse pistols; the cook a huge chopping knife, and the butler a bottle in each hand.
Come and live with me, and damme but the best room in the house, and the best horse in the stable, shall be at thy service.
The red-nosed squire, too, got out of conceit of me, because in the heat of the chase, I rode over him one day as he and his horse lay sprawling in the dirt.
I spurred my horse to redoubled speed; he was covered with foam when we both arrived panting at the gateway that opened to the grounds around the villa.
A black man was holding a black horse which neighed and stamped with impatience.
He nearly broke his neck in a fall from his horse in a fox-chase.
I left my horse at a cottage and walked through the grounds, that I might regain tranquillity for the approaching interview.
Against the wainscot were suspended rusty blunderbusses, horse pistols, and a cut-and-thrust sword, with which he had fortified his room to defend his life and treasure.
Stopping on the border of the alley, he put one knee to the ground, presented his carbine ready for menace, or to shoot her horse if she attempted to fly, and in this way awaited her approach.
I think that is the cause of the American horse having a sort of amble: the foal from its weak state, goes pacing after the dam, and retains that motion all its life.
Muddy hole one a horse with the Pole evil which I think will not get well the other an Old Mare was not capable of work last summer.
The horse was then put in and we lent a hand to help up the luggage.
Washington always rode a good horse and sometimes wore a blue coat, scarlet waistcoat, buckskin breeches, top boots and velvet cap and carried a whip with a long thong.
The lime trees, which had some appearance of Budding when I went away, are now withering--and the Horsechestnut & Tree box from Colo.
Horse Dung "5 has mud taken out of the creek "6 has cow dung "7 has marle from the Gulleys on the hillside, wch.
Likewise the Horse called old Chatham and the Lame Horsethat used to go in the Waggon now in a one horse Cart.
This being over, I mount my horse and ride around my farms, which employs me until it is time for dinner, at which I rarely miss seeing strange faces.
As you like stories so well," he added, archly, "I must tell you about the first horse I ever owned.
But the Arab treats his horse as a companion, never beats him, but cheers him with his voice, and only uses him with seeming cruelty in necessary demands on his physical powers.
Sometimes the doctor desired Cæsar to make the horse leap the stream, which was about six feet broad.
In 1838, there was a wonderful horse presented to the public, who performed many curious tricks, which seemed to exhibit something far beyond instinct.
This horse is deservedly a favorite with his master, and engages in gambols with him like a dog.
But notwithstanding the Arab lives with, and loves his horse beyond any other treasure, the young filly, when about to be trained, is treated with a cruelty scarcely to be believed.
Another gentleman had a horse which he taught to dance to music.
I have seen a horse who, in ploughing, would walk very steadily toward the directing pole, and halt when his head had reached it.
Another instance of the same kind is related of a horse belonging to a carter in Fifeshire.
His horse stood still; but after remaining patiently for some time, and not observing any disposition in the rider to get up and proceed further, he took him by the collar and shook him.
This horse was fed for two months by a couple of his companions on his right and left, who ate with him.
What is become of the winged horse that stood over the former?
THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH.
WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH.
THAT WE MUST NOT LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH Nor a lady's age in the parish register.
They eat, as a horse bolts his chopt hay, with indifference, calmness, and cleanly circumstances.
A broken-winded or spur-galled horse is sure to find an advocate in him.
Passing by many interesting members of the psychological series of intergrading forms, we reach the familiar animals like the cat and dog and horse which display what is called intelligence.
Since the doctrine of evolution and its evidences began to occupy the thoughts of the intellectual world at large, no fossil forms have received more attention than the ancient members of the horse tribe.
The definition may be all very well as far as the machines are concerned, but, it may be asked, should a living thing like a horse or a dog be compared with the steamship or the locomotive?
The horse comes last with one large toe and hoof, but on either side of the main bones of this digit are vestiges of what must have been toes in its ancestors.
Secondly, some fossil groups are astonishingly complete, so that the ancient history of a form like the horse can be written with something approaching fullness.
As we have learned, a modern horse is described by comparative anatomy as a one-toed descendant of remote five-toed ancestors.
Shan't you feel proud to sail the Venetian lagoons with a sea-horse at the mast-head?
The familiar call took her quite by surprise, and looking out from under the awning, she espied the Daymond sea-horse on its blue ground, already close upon them.
We are going to have a sea-horse painted on red bunting, in tawny colors, golds and browns; and Mr. Daymond thinks he shall make one for their gondola on a dark blue ground.
The Gonds in India worship a horse-god, Koda Pen, in the form of a shapeless stone; but it is not clear that the horse is regarded as divine.
Wellington placed the greatest confidence in him, and on the eve of Waterloo extended his command so as to include the whole of the allied cavalry and horse artillery.
The horse or mare is a common form of the corn-spirit in Europe.
Four years before, he exchanged his colonelcy of the 7th Light Dragoons which he had held over forty years, for that of the Royal Horse Guards.
An air of careful and dainty neatness was diffused about both horse and rider.
At the first sentence our old man flung his gray head in the air with the gesture of the war horse when he catches the first, far-off scream of the trumpet.
Her words were accompanied by the vision of a white horse and an ancient phaeton (which had been newly washed for the occasion) just beyond the lilac-bushes at the gate.
I can hitch the horse if Miss Keith minds--" But Miss Keith did not mind; she was quite willing to hold the horse.
And the horse sagging his elderly head, appeared of no mind to move, whether "held" or no.
A week ago he would have raced his horse into the darkest woodland road to escape a passing salute, the hazard of a little casual badinage.
She could not help wondering whether at this moment Lorania was not thinking of the marquis, who rode a wheel and a horse admirably.
In a second his hat was on his head and his horse bounded half across the road.
There was a time in the days long ago when he raised a glossy high hat in the same courtly way--not to the ladies in a one-horse wagonette or a pony-trap, but to the ladies in smart victorias and aristocratic barouches.
They had a horse and trap, and were looked upon by their neighbours as retired tradespeople, who had made their money and were living on a well-earned competency.
The rider, whose knees pressed the horseso that the animal trembled and panted, wore a garment with a scarlet and white pattern, which was embroidered with silver eagles and falcons.
He gave his horse a heavy blow, so that it reared, turned its head, galloped in front of his retinue, and in a few minutes reached the walls of Babylon.
He brought a horse in his right hand, a sistrum in his left, a sistrum of gold and lapis lazuli.
The Agricultural Horse Tax is given up; it was surrendered in the Committee this morning.
General invasion soon ensues, and the horse may die in from four to sixteen hours.
Anthrax of the horse usually begins as an affection of the throat or bowel.
Picard also allows himself to be saddled; we put a doll on his back and he does all that a circus horse would do.
I have seen more than a thousand stags taken, and I have had bad falls; but out of twenty-six times that I have been thrown from my horse I never hurt myself but once, and then I dislocated my elbow.
They looked for the king's surgeon who was with the hunt, but could not find him, for his horse had lost a shoe and he had gone to a village to have it put on.
The parson made note of the complaint, and that afternoon drove over to the pond in his "one-horse shay.
