They saw him flash out into the desert at a mad gallop.
Janet had to do another riding sequence, and she went about it gamely, although every bone in her body ached as her horse galloped at a mad pace across the broad valley and into the rolling hills behind it.
You're tired and stiff and a little mad because Curt didn't come to meet you.
The pilot shot over the side, his chute billowing out and Curt, jumping back into the saddle, rode like mad toward the hills.
Billy Fenstow was determined to finish on time and they worked like mad through the long, hot hours.
I've got to learn to let them tease without getting mad at all and then they won't torment me, but it is a mighty hard thing to do, I think.
He did make me awfully madwhen he said such horrid things about my name, but I oughtn't to have thrown water in his face nor dumped him in that puddle.
I thought he was going to, for he looked right mad, but I reckon I was so mad it wouldn't have hurt much.
I love my King and country well, Religion and the laws; Which I'm madat the heart that e'er we did sell To buy the good old cause.
Ballad: A Mad World, My Masters From the King's pamphlets, British Museum.
Laure, in spite of what she said to Rock, is behaving like a mad person.
You're not really mad at each other," Rouletta told them.
But, once the first mad craving for drink had been assuaged, they fried bacon and made tea.
Why, I'd rather sit up all night and deal casino to a mad Chinaman!
He was stark mad by now; black terror throttled him.
I can't make him understand we'd ought to keep the outfit together; he's got it scattered like a mad woman's hair.
They, when they see the fiery chief advance, And pushing at their chests his pointed lance, Wheeled with so swift a motion, mad with fear, They threw their master headlong from the chair.
I might have promised to myself those harms, Mad as I was, when I, with mortal arms, Presumed against immortal powers to move, And violate with wounds the queen of love.
Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrible mad bull, and made a public show of him, greatly to the wonder and admiration of good King AEgeus and his subjects.
But the Chimaera was so mad and wild with pain, that it did not guard itself so well as might else have been the case.
If you are as brave as I think you, and as you have need to be," said Medea, "your own bold heart will teach you that there is but one way of dealing with a mad bull.
Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercules caught him round the middle with both hands, lifted him high into the air, and held him aloft overhead.
Puritan preachings, mad folks, and other strange sights to be seen daily, private and public?
At sixteen she came home again, beautiful as a fairy, ripe for mischief, mad for display--a tireless reader of French novels.
Could it be his Dora, the girl he had learned to love with such a fierce, mad love--the girl to recover whom he would have cheerfully laid down his wealth?
He had rushed from the scene of his crime, mad with baffled love, with fiercest passion, with regret and remorse.
You wooed me and won me, after your own honorable fashion--what are you going to exact now as the price of your love and my mad folly?
I am quite sorry I cannot go back to school for a few days," she said, "just to make all my school-fellows mad with jealousy.
I thought I must surely die of dullness here, but I can flirt with the 'gentleman and poet,' and drive this preaching little puritan mad with envy, and that may fill up a year for me.
It was the passionate, madfolly of a boy--the trusting simplicity and innocence of a young girl.
Looking back, I cannot tell what possessed me--what mad infatuation, what wild folly had taken hold of me.
Blind to his mad passion for her, she decided upon leaving him; and of all the mistakes that she ever made in her life, none was so great as this.
If they choose to go mad in crowds over the handsome earl's daughter, let them; I, for one, shall not join them.
Any one who did not happen to be a journalist, or know a little about journalism, American and English, would have supposed that the same man who wrote the article had suddenly gone mad and written the title.
The Americans may go mad when they make laws; but they recover their reason when they disobey them.
She will be something which may well be called a nightmare of the nursery; a mad mother.
We may mock him for being mad on peace; but we cannot say that he was so mad on peace that he made war on Israel.
But his sense of some sort of incalculable calculations, as of the vision of a mad mathematician, is rooted in a more real impression.
It is perfectly true that the libation of freedom must sometimes be drunk in blood, and never more (one would think) than when mad millionaires forbid it to be drunk in beer.
Imagine what a satirist of saner days would have made of the daily life of a child of six, who was actually admitted to be mad on the subject of his own health.
I have had three husbands myself, and I think to have another; and do you think I am so mad to tell him all I do?
Tom Tram, who now as many mad pranks shows, Unto Tom Long will prove a mere goose.
He was soon set down, and the man who carried him went madof the fright.
It was a mad little world, but good because Mammon had not corrupted its natural spontaneity.
There was the vast wooden amphitheatre wheremad trotting races were run; where stolid cattle walked past the Chinese pagoda in the middle circle, and shook the blue ribbons on their horns.
Gradually, in the midst of this mad uproar, the crowd became aware that another man was standing upon the stump from which Nicholas Temple had leaped.
On the wide, straight stretches it went at a mad pace that took her breath, and again, in turning a corner or passing another car, it slowed down, purring in meek obedience.
You have paid dearly, and have made us pay dearly, for your mad frolic of fighting cut-throats on the highroad.
That was but three years since, and then all had gone across the green cloth in one mad night in St. James's Street.
A party of chosen men headed by Tom McChesney was sent after them, and never shall I forget the sight of the mad beasts charging through the water.
The remembrance of that dinner when with my connivance the Scherers made their social debut is associated in my mind with the coming of the fulness of that era, mad and brief, when gold rained down like manna from our sooty skies.
The mad expedition" came at length in the shape of a fight with the townspeople, in which Austen, of course, was the ringleader.
Leaping on the roan mare, I was riding like mad for Harrodstown to fetch Mrs. Cowan.
He's mad clean through," reported the Honourable Elisha Jane, to whose tact and diplomacy the mission had been confided.
Suddenly, with a glimmering of the madevents of the night, I stood up, walked uncertainly into the back room, and stared at the bed.
Tipton and Martin and the Caroliny folks is burnin' mad with Chucky Jack for the murder of Corn Tassel and other peaceful chiefs.
And presently, when I had closed one of his eyes, his skill went all to pieces, and he made a mad rush at me.
With a maddisloyalty he read in every word of Elizabeth's letter, Michel de la Foret, refugee.
She had forgiven him more than that in the past, when he had made his own mad devotion to herself excuse for his rashness or misconduct.
The victims went mad with pain while they who charged were mad with fury.
The mad woman did not think that she was insulting the nation, which would repay her at an early day.
So mad was the concourse that they to whom Valence Charny presented the black cockade, tore off their white ones and they who were wearing the tricolors trampled them under foot.
