That the mustang hed a yeller-belly on his back, and that he hain't got ne'er a one now, as I knows on.
So saying, the Jarocho drew his quirt several times across the red cheek of Raoul, and with a curse upon his lips he leaped upon his mustang and galloped off.
After three or four desperate plunges, the fiery mustanggained the crest of the ridge upon which lay the remains of the dead soldier.
In spite of this cheering prophecy, Mr. Poinsett did not wait for the slow diligence, but mounting a fleet mustang dashed off in quest of the missing Mission.
Jose Paredes went straight to the corral, where in a few minutes he had lassoed a mustang with small head and flashing eye, which he began saddling, after he had carefully rubbed it down.
Certainly, mi amo; I have a mustang on which I could ride to Hermosillo and back without giving it any further rest than that of the camping hours.
She went out, guiding her husband's footsteps, and helped him climb upon the mustang from the height of the narrow porch.
For each evening, as she cantered up the road, spurring the mustang to its best paces, she reined to speak to him.
He had a few pounds left, and he could, at worst, buy a mustang of the neighbourhood and pursue his journey.
Hearing of the casualty awaiting him at Juandah, he came on best pace, making running with his wiry iron-legged mustang from the start.
Little by little the sound grew nearer, the branches crashed, the underwood was violently dashed aside, and the unknown's mustang made his appearance on the skirt of a wood at a little distance.
He spared not spur, he drew not rein, Across that broad, unchanging plain, Till he the Mustang spring might gain, On the Llano Estacado.
Undaunted by the narrowness of the ledge, the willing, sure-footed mustang began climbing the steep grade.
It took two days to find the mustang and coax him back again.
The only chance to win would be if he could drive the Mustang back to the Big Arroyo Crossing.
Yest I seen about a hundred necks broke trying it, but I never seen a mustang creased yet," was Wild Jo's critical remark.
In Western law the Mustang was the property of the first man to mark him with his brand; how was this to be done with the nearest branding-iron twenty miles away?
The ropes were loosed, the Mustang felt himself freed, thought he was free, and sprang to his feet only to fall as soon as he tried to take a stride.
The Mustang lived not far from Lobo in the early nineties.
He kept on hoping to make a strike that would leave him well fixed with a fair start, and when the thought came that the Black Mustang was his mascot, he only needed a chance to 'make the try.
The Pacer shuddered as the hot iron seared his flesh, but it was quickly done, and the famous Mustang Stallion was a maverick no more.
A year later the same corner of New Mexico was worked over by the roundup, and again the mustang bunch was seen.
The dark colt was now a black yearling, with thin, clean legs and glossy flanks; and more than one of the boys saw with his own eyes this oddity--the mustang was a born pacer.
Bo's white mustang dragged her through more than one brambly place.
Helen looked at the mustang Roy was holding, to be instantly delighted.
Oh, my mustang tripped--threw me 'way over his head.
Bo's scream made her mustangstand almost straight up.
Soon Roy and his buckskin-colored mustang were lost to sight round a clump of trees.
The mustang pitched all over the space adjacent to Dale and Helen, tearing up the moss and grass.
He ran in and out of the straggling spruces along the edge of the park, and suddenly wheeled around a corner of trees to come upon the gray mustang standing still.
Helen was watching Dale, so that when Bo cried out in great excitement Helen turned to see a savage yellow little mustang standing straight up on his hind legs and pawing the air.
Roy appeared to slide off the mustang without effort, and his swift hands slapped the straps as he unsaddled.
So it came about as naturally as it was wonderful that Bo rode the blue mustang before the afternoon ended.
Also she made out the tracks of Bo's mustang and the bear and the hound.
The little gray mustang was a beauty, clean-limbed and racy, with long black mane and tail, and a fine, spirited head.
From Chihuahua he brought in some of the bestmustang mares he could find; and, in case you have Frederick Remington's pictures of starved winter-range animals in mind, let me tell you a good mustang is a very handsome animal indeed.
They combined the intelligence and vice of the mustang with the endurance and nervous instability of the thoroughbred.
Mark Baldwin's mustang proved to be a finished waltzer, and after the saddle-girth had been broken and Mark had been deposited at full length in the roadway, he turned his animal over to Sullivan, who soon managed to become his master.
I was as wild as a mustang and as tough as a pine knot, and the scrapes that I managed to get into were too numerous to mention.
The very mustang winced from this mountain of a man who came with a long, sweeping, springing stride.
For Crackajack combined the toughness of a mustangand the lean, strong running lines of a thoroughbred in miniature.
As there don't seem to be no hotel hereabouts, I reckon I kin put up my mustang here and have a shakedown somewhere behind that counter," he said.
He smiled, and, nodding his head, put spurs to his mustang and cantered away.
When I arrived there I found Enriquez' pinto mustang steaming in the corral, and although I was momentarily delayed by the servants at the gateway, I was surprised to find Enriquez himself lying languidly on his back in a hammock in the patio.
I consider it a proof of the superiority of masculine friendship that neither the subsequent desertion of the mustang nor that of the young lady ever made the slightest difference to Enriquez or me in our exalted amity.
I shall throw the 'buck-jump' mustangat the same sacred spot.
I mean the black mustang that ran wild around here for a couple of years.
When he had eaten, he broke into breezy conversation, and especially of a vicious mustang he had ridden on a bet the day before.
It seems hard to think that the mustang will be no more, the mustang which Dinky-Dunk once told me was the descendant of the three hundred Arab and Spanish horses which Cortez first carried across the Atlantic to Mexico.
I couldn't join him in his mirth over that incident, for I happened to remember the look on Lady Alicia's face when she once watched Dinky-Dunk mount his mustang and ride away.
The gal rode splendidly; the mustang had a beautiful easy pace, and she set him as if she was in a chair.
There ain't many horses on the plain as can beat that mustang of yours, and I know you can ride him barebacked.
It was safe to be a long chase now, and I felt pretty sure as the gal would escape, for her mustang was a beautiful critter, and the Captain had given a long price for it; besides, it was carrying no weight to speak of.
It was in this last gallop that the fiery mustang and his rider flashed by the old Doctor.
The prairie horse he rode, the mustang of the Pampas, wild as he was, had been trained to take part in at least one exercise.
He touched the mustangwith the spur, and in a few fierce leaps found himself nearly abreast of the frightened animal he was chasing.
There was a little crowd round the dead mustang already, principally consisting of neighbors who had adjourned from the Doctor's house to see the scene of the late adventure.
His aim was true; the mustang gave one bound and fell lifeless, shot through the head.
This was followed two years later by his second work, "Mustang Gray," which was born of his observations and experiences in the Mexican War.
For a season "Mustang Gray" was the reigning novel.
The effect of this discovery was like an electric shock to me, and drew a cry of joy from my lips that made my mustang start and prick his ears.
Hitherto my mustang had behaved exceedingly well, cantering freely along and not attempting to play any tricks.
I could proceed no further without losing the track of the three horsemen; and as I happened to be close to an island, I fastened my mustang to a branch with the lasso, and threw myself on the grass under the trees.
My mustang had suddenly sprung back, reared up, and then thrown himself forward upon me with such force and fury, that, as I got out of his way, his fore feet went completely through the bottom of the boat.
It might still be possible to overtake them, and in this hope I rode on faster than ever, as fast, at least, as my mustang could carry me through the thick grass and flowers, which in many places were four or five feet high.
Whether the steeple-chaser on his thoroughbred, or the Indian on his mustang is the better rider, cannot well be decided.
It is by no means sure that any other seat would be equally easy on the cantering mustang for so many scores of miles a day as many men on the plains customarily cover.
As he caught sight of the princess he halted abruptly, stared at her for a moment, much as the first man may have stared at the first woman, then turned and left the house, sprang on his mustang and galloped away.
Don Guillermo's sturdy little mustang bore him into the court-yard, shaking his stout master not a little.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mustang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
