They were a wilder lot this time, and a chestnut and a piebald especially gave trouble, at first refusing to be harnessed.
I had been lately riding a "manchado," or piebald horse, which had been bred and born town of Colla.
With a loud crack of his whip and a goat-like spring of his piebald steed, Boksa was over the hedge and after the vanishing herd, the dragoon galloping after him.
Stripped of his sword and pistols and pole-axe, and with his whip hung around his neck, poor Boksa was mounted on his piebald nag and ignominiously driven out of camp.
For his own use, whether riding or driving, he had six black Shetland ponies, with four very choice piebald animals of New Forest breed.
Four dwarf grooms, dressed in scarlet liveries and mounted on white Exmoor ponies, hunted the pack, while their master and mistress, in green habits, followed either on the black Shetlands or on the piebald New Forest ponies.
He finishes with your socks, which he skilfully darns with white thread, and contemplates the piebald effect with much satisfaction; after which he puts them up in little balls, each containing a pair of different colours.
In such a guise he feels worthy to tend a piebald horse, caparisoned in crimson silk, with a tight martingale of red and yellow cord.
In a few seconds more, the body rose in sight; and then the thighs and legs, with a large piebald mustang between them.
Among the many odd characters in the piebald band, of which I had the honour to be chief, not the least odd was one who answered to the euphonious name of "Elijah Quackenboss.
The Old Norse name for this Duck was skjoeldungr, from skjoeldr, a piebald horse.
The piebald hippogriff leaped into the air, and Johnny clamped his legs about convulsed muscles.
The piebald sniffed at the honeycomb, then jerked up its head to watch him suspiciously.
When he threw another bit, the piebald hippogriff wheeled away, but returned almost at once and ate it.
He mounted the piebald hippogriff and they flew off, up through the golden air to the sunset clouds.
One glance at thepiebald garments hanging from her linen-lines was sufficient to convince Mrs. Sawney of that.
As it was, Sandy was two streets away, engaged in an affair with a lady of piebald appearance and coy demeanour.
A strange and fierce hero, riding a piebald steed, is approaching; and it is plain that he intends to attack us.
The Horse Sharatz The story of Marko cannot be told without some account of Sharatz, his much-loved piebald steed, from whom he was never parted.
At last, when he came to a certain piebald foal he seized it by the tail: but this animal did not stir, and Marko, with all his vast strength, could not make it move one step.
Near the band Piebald and magpie horses stood at hand Nosing at grass beneath the green-striped dome While men caressed them with the curry-comb.
He took his wrench, arose, and stretched his back, Swore at a piebald pony trying to bite, And rolled a cigarette and begged a light.
Then putting-to the piebald nags, they climbed Into their vans and slowly stole away Along Blown Hilcote on the Icknield Way.
But what I cannot bear Is my poor Bet, my piebald Talking Mare, Gone curby in her hocks from standing up.
She stroked a piebald horse and pulled his ears, And kissed his muzzle, while her eyes betrayed This, that she loved the juggler, not the jade.
It had none of the piebald and crazy look of the tower that seemed made out of its refuse.
This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.
It is drawn like a piebald scaly horse, with one horn and a cow's tail, and may have had a living original in some extinct equine animal.
One of the five "boys" was missing, also a piebaldpony which had caught his eye earlier in the day.
The native would have remained unrecognised, as the distance was considerable, if his horse had not been a piebald of peculiar marking.
So she took the lute and sang the following verses: O hills of the sands and the rugged piebald plain, Shall the bondman of love win ever free from pain!
O hills of the sands and the rugged piebald plain, iii.
The piebald was saddled, bridled, and turned round in the stall; for all servants that are worth anything like to further hunting operations.
And now in the throng on the principal line are two conspicuous horses--a piebald and a white--carrying Mr. Sponge and Lucy Glitters.
Mr. Sponge determined to keep the game alive, and getting Hercules and Multum in Parvo together again, he added a showy piebald hack, that Buckram had just got from some circus people who had not been able to train him to their work.
Then I can get this hack taken in, at all events,' observed Sponge, laying his hand on the neck of the piebald as he spoke.
Get on, and let's see how he goes,' added he, passing on to the piebald as he spoke.
See the rooster in the fur cap--him ridin' the piebald mustang?
Kiddie, still riding the same lank, piebald prairie pony; still unhurt in the battle; still cool and self-contained.
He stopped and lifted Rube bodily from the ground, planting him securely astride the piebald pony, which he led away across ground that was thickly strewn with dead and wounded Indians and horses.
What's the matter with the regulation Express pony--the piebald cayuse that you gave me on the last trip?
It was now the beginning of winter, and I never saw a more cheerless prospect; the dusky woods, piebald with snow, could be only seen indistinctly through a drizzling hazy atmosphere.
Presently a coach came slowly along through the crowd, with the mysterious Eye painted on the panels, drawn by piebald horses, and with priests within, bearing the divine symbols.
On the previous day the presidente had unearthed a queer little carriage out of a junk heap, and put this conveyance and a wise looking piebald pony at our disposal.
After some persuasion on the part of the Filipino, the piebald pony started and proved to be a fine little animal with an unusually clean and even gait.
And the piebald pony, his muscles and thews alive with energy in an instant, lunged in answer to the quick knee-press, through the mud, straight at Masten.
Do you reckon we're goin' to break our necks, you piebald outlaw," the rider said to the pony.
And he took a bonypiebald horse, which seemed to him the strongest of them.
Then, behold Peredur entered the Hall, upon the bony piebald horse, with the uncouth trappings upon it; and in this way he traversed the whole length of the Hall.
Then they saw coming a knight on a lofty-headed piebald horse.
There was a little pony-carriage waiting just outside the station gates, and standing in it was a rather fatpiebald pony.
