The mare will be off before I can make them understand.
He turned, beaming anew, to the little boy who was looking on, cherubically roseate, at the sleek mare and the smart groom at her bit.
Will you do me the favor to hire a responsible party there to bring the mare back?
Suddenly the groom leaped aside; the splendid mare sprang forward; there was a whirl of wheels, a whorl of rays as the gleaming spokes caught the sunshine, and they were gone indeed!
And the Irishman declared it took all he knew to hold the mare for the single minute required to slip the child into the coat.
When Manister asked him, almost deferentially, whether the mare could be taken in the photograph, he offered his lordship a place in it too, the offer being declined, but not without many thanks.
Perhaps you could do with the trap and my mare on the bridge; she's something special, I assure you.
No sooner does the mare hear those words than she begins to dance and curvet, showing in every possible way her anxiety to start and her sense of the importance of her duties.
Major Bullivant of B Battery came over the hill on the pet grey mare that, in spite of three changes from one Division to another, he had managed to keep with him all the time he had been in France.
When the doctor has finished his sick parade you take my mare and see if the dog can be found.
Fentiman's chief regret was that he would have to leave behind a mare that he had got from the Tank Corps.
The colonel's mare was fresh and ready to shy at heaps of stones and puddles.
Laneridge has brought my mare up," he remarked pleasantly.
Two high-velocity shells whizzed above our heads, and the colonel's mare plunged excitedly.
A bent old man began to lead the wide-backed Percheron mare that was yoked to the shafts with the mixture of straps and bits of rope that French farm folk find does well enough for harness.
The mare pulled to the end of her rope, but not far enough to tighten it around her neck and choke herself, and she was looking fixedly at Joe when he came with the bridle.
They roped the mare mule, dragged her to the forge, threw her, and shoed her.
Their meal was a silent and listness one, for the loss of the mare was deeply felt.
Joe slipped the rope over the mare mule's head, took a half hitch around a fence post, and stepped out of reach when the mule slashed at him with her yellowed teeth.
The horse mule he picketed, but the mare was left unhampered.
Joe vaulted astride themare and set himself for the lunge that he knew was coming now.
The mare mule, at shoeing time, literally went wild.
The horse regarded him anxiously, but the marestood tiredly in harness with her nose almost touching the Trail.
As soon as Pete Domley came--and he should be here any minute--they could rope and shoe the mare mule.
Ellis rode his horse, Joe mounted the mare mule, and each man carried a rifle.
Though she'd put up her usual fight when it came her turn to be shod, the mare mule hadn't had a chance.
Joe rode the mare mule back to the post, harnessed the team and hitched them to one of Snedeker's bobsleds.
The horse stood quivering, a little afraid, when Joe approached with the mare mule's harness.
The horse did not protest when he was led away from the mareand picketed near.
He took the mare mule's harness from his horse and put the saddle back on.
The mare wore a straw hat to which was attached a bunch of artificial roses, and switched her tail to drive away the flies.
Chuckling to himself, he slipped from Delia's back, preparing to lead the mare and accompany the girl on foot.
This he might have done had not the bay mare Delia, unaccustomed to the sight of young ladies roaming alone at night, thought it the part of propriety to shy.
Hannah hurried out to speak to the old cowman who usually waited for Mr. Garratt's mareon Sunday morning before going to church.
I met Miss Vincent on the hill and led the mare across the fields for the pleasure of her company.
XIII Mr. Garratt hired themare on which he had made so successful an appearance by the month, and determined to enjoy his long rides across the beautiful Surrey country.
Shall I take the mare round to the stable, Miss Barton?
I can lead the mare across the grass and have the pleasure of escorting you at the same time," he said, quickly.
There was a decentmare to be hired at "The Brown Bear" at Haslemere.
He touched up the marein his excitement, and went by the church and towards the green lane in a canter.
So long away, she flew to meet The darling of her soul: So runs a mare with eager feet To welcome back her foal.
His hand upheld her like a mare Who feels her load too sore to bear, And sinks upon the way o’ertoiled, And all her limbs with dust are soiled.
It was in the early spring of 1940 that Gluck destroyed the Mare Island navy-yard.
To make matters worse, the Government tugs that had been hauling food from the army depots on Mare Island to Angel Island found no more food to haul.
He played his flashes down the Mare Island shore, blowing up five torpedo boats, the torpedo station, and the great magazine at the eastern end of the island.
From a room in Vallejo he sent his electric discharges across the Vallejo Straits to Mare Island.
He swung himself on the mare from which he had lately dismounted, caught Lotus-flower by the bridle, and sped away like the wind.
In two bounds of his lean active mare he was beside the prisoner, and his powerful grasp had seized the threatening arm.
The Anakim glanced doubtfully at each other; their chief pointed to the mare from which he had dismounted, and shook his head.
Seeking the chief of the Anakim, whom she found without the encampment leading hismare to water, she placed herself in his path, standing erect and motionless till he approached.
I jest want to see the old black mare come in across the line and you on her!
At last, the great event was called--Malden's mare against Pete's noted plunger.
But all the breakfast the mare got that day was but a little yawning and gaping, in memory whereof the gentlemen of Beauce do as yet to this day break their fast with gaping, which they find to be very good, and do spit the better for it.
In the meantime Gargantua took a little refreshment, ate somewhat himself, the like did those who were with him, and caused to give to his mare a picotine of oats, that is, three score and fourteen quarters and three bushels.
How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the huge great marethat he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce.
But Gargantua's mare did avenge herself handsomely of all the outrages therein committed upon beasts of her kind, and that by a trick whereof they had no suspicion.
Marquet fell down from his mare more like a dead than living man.
If they fit your mare well, so do they do our faculty; quae comparata est jumentis insipientibus, et similis facta est eis, Psalmo nescio quo.
The King came up on the hillside and kissed the old white mare twenty-five times.
So he mounted his old mare Whitey and rode over to the hillside.
He was going to send the Mare Nostrum to await him in Barcelona, and he himself would stay in Naples, just as long as she wished him to.
Every boat anchored near theMare Nostrum was menaced by Freya's power to give information.
All the waters of the planet now saw the Mare Nostrum specializing in the rarest kind of transportation.
And Ferragut for some days believed that he was living just as in past years when he had not yet bought the Mare Nostrum and was planning to remain always ashore.
Ten had passed by since the Mare Nostrum, entirely repaired, had anchored in the commercial harbor.
If I have to die, let it be within sight of the Mare Nostrum!
Ferragut passed between the balls along the edge of the wharf, the whole length of the Mare Nostrum.
The Mare Nostrum went to Corfu with war material for the Serbs who were reorganizing their battalions destined for Salonica.
These signs of interest shown by the great traveler in the little mare nostrum, and especially in the details of its western bowl which he wished to know most minutely, pleased Ferragut greatly.
Because the Mare Nostrum belonged to a neutral country, it could not be sold to one of the belligerent nations while hostilities lasted.
Of the Mare Nostrum there was no longer visible either the mouth of the smokestack nor the point of a mast; the abyss had swallowed it all.
Abandon the Mare Nostrum, the best of all the ships on which he had ever sailed!
Ferragut felt increased pride in examining the new aspect of the Mare Nostrum.
In the middle of November the Mare Nostrum arrived at Marseilles.
The trappings of the mare were of the field and jineta fashion, and of mulberry colour and green.
His mare had come straight from a long spell of grass, and it was late in the afternoon of the following day before he dismounted finally in his squadron lines.
Mac mentioned that he had left something, and slipped away to give the old mare a farewell stroke.
Mac led his terrified mare up the steep gangway and down into a hold where he left her with regret.
She pulled her mare to a standstill, and got down from the saddle, and let the bridle-reins trail.
But, even as she screamed, she threw herself out of the saddle, to relieve the mare of her weight, and swam, holding to the pommel of the saddle.
The mare drew up immediately after, with a great dash and commotion.
It's no concern of mine," said John Gilsland, touching the mare with his whip for a grand final dash up to the railway station.
When the mare came under the wire the first time two swipes attempted to stop her by the usual method of suddenly stretching a blanket before her.
But when the mare at last began to labor under the weight of her rider, a half-dozen men rushed out and anchored her.
It'd be the black mare he was riding, nae doubt; he'll have tied her to the gate in the lane.
The night you stole the black mare from me I shouted after you, as well as the gag at my mouth would permit, that she'd bring you no luck, and that muscles of iron wouldn't hold her the day she made up her mind to get home.
From Plautus, with whom we dare say he had long before had an intimacy, he might have taken this profitable lesson, Viam qui nescit quâ deveniat ad mare Eum oportet amnem quærere comitem sibi.
