Nowhere was there any sign of the Indians, and he recalled with a sore heart what his father had said, that with their swift ponies it would be impossible for him to catch up with them.
Many of them were like mad men, while others were stupefied and logy, scarcely able to sit their ponies and utterly unfitted for the chase.
They'll come back after a while and the ponies will walk away to the finish.
Our two boys were at home in August, and the happiest of the happy with two ponies and four sisters.
There was commotion in every corral, where long-haired men in leggings and with feathered ornaments in their hats, were awkwardly breaking fiery ponies to drive, for teams were in sharp demand.
The cowboys, cursing under breath, whirled their poniesand followed Yarpe, the redoubtable.
While the sheriff and I have a little set-to, you water your ponies and dust off, and be ready for cold potatoes.
Along the hitching-poles excited and jocular cowboys were loosing their ponies and leaping to their saddles.
On a low butte to the southwest a dark mass of armed and resolute warriors waited on their swift ponies ready for whatever came, while behind them on a higher ridge a smaller group of dismounted chieftains sat in council.
Crane's Voice did not get his mail-sack till twelve, but his ponies were fed and watered and ready to move when the bag came.
They had stampeded his ponies and shot at him, one bullet passing so close to his ear that it burned the skin, and he was angry.
Drive on," said Curtis, and Two Horns touched his ponies with the whip.
The native officers clustered round our poniesshaking our hands, and the whole regiment waved and cheered as we passed out of camp.
Those Venezuelans who at once had set forth on their ponies to overtake the would-be assassin already had brought word of the attempt upon Colonel Vega to Willemstad, and the repose of the peaceful burgh was greatly ruffled.
My ponies are tired, and I have further to go, and I am going to rest them under this bank for an hour.
There were no sounds but that of the booming wind upon the stretch of tawny herbage around them, the crackling wheels, the tread of the men, and the footsteps of the two shaggyponies which drew the van.
They were about a score of the small wild ponies known as heath-croppers.
In fact, the road was so bad that they were compelled after a while to ride into the woods and let their ponies rest.
The three rode down the slope toward the house, but halfway to the bottom they reined in their ponies and listened.
Aurora had driven further than usual, and it was striking four as her ponies dashed past Beckenham church and down the hill towards Felden Woods.
The ponies and dogs, and puppies and kittens, and petted foals; the little scarlet riding-habit that had been made for the heiress, when she rode after the hounds with her cousin Andrew Floyd.
The woman at the lodge ran out with her apron over her head to open the gates as Miss Floyd's ponies approached, and at the same moment a man rose from a bank by the roadside, and came close up to the little carriage.
He had half a mind to leave the carriage and join Aurora and her petitioner; but the ponies were restless, and he knew that it would not do to abandon the reins to poor timid Lucy.
Most were merely humble cow-ponies turned out to range, but the nine great mares were there, a striking group by themselves.
The cattlemen on their jaded ponies set out for home with the poor satisfaction of vowing vengeance for their failure on the superb cause of it.
Away they went, and the little cow-ponies that carried the men were easily left behind.
The ponies swam the deep, strong, sixty-yard stream of turbulent red water.
There were several horses and poniesfeeding in the field.
Some of the main passages run on straight ahead for two miles from the foot of the shaft, and the coal has to be brought all this distance on the rolleys, dragged by ponies or horses sometimes.
These were dragged along a tramway by sleek, stout ponies to the foot of the shaft, under charge of a wagoner.
The mules, donkeys, and ponies gave the best results, but do not abound in sufficient quantities to enable an army in Afghanistan to dispense with camels.
One beautiful day," she replied, "when sun warm and earth green, white man got lost and his ponies come into our camp.
The ponies in the valley below were strange looking creatures to us; we had never seen them before.
Sheep also and bullocks are turned out on the moor; but they have to be cared for at home in the winter, whereas the ponies brave the storms and snow.
He will see there choice specimens alike of Exmoor ponies and of North Devon farmers, and will catch many a waft of the broadest dialect of the borders of Somerset and Devon.
The ponies are much given to rambling; they pass from one quarter to another in search of pasture; but the moorman of each quarter can recognise those turned out on his region by the earmark.
In every quarter of the moor a special earmark is required for the ponies that are turned out, a round hole punched in the ear, through which is passed a piece of distinguishing tape, red or blue, white or black.
In spite of the severe laws on this sort of theft, and of the Acland brand of the anchor, a good many ponies were spirited away by the shepherds and disposed of in Wiltshire.
The great sale of ponies formerly took place at Simonsbath, but it was moved to Bampton in 1850, and is held on the last Thursday in October.
The moor was the property of the Crown, and it was leased in part to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland since 1818, and was used for the rearing of ponies and the summering of sheep.
Exmoor ponies throng the streets, flood the pavements, overflow the houses, pervade the place.
The older ponies live all through the winter on the hills, and seek out sheltered spots for themselves during the continuance of wind and rain.
Their supply of water was limited, and the exhausted ponies must wait until they reached the river to quench their thirst.
The men shivered in their saddles, until, at last satisfied, the ponies consented to be forced back up the bank, where they nibbled at the short tufts of herbage, but in a manner expressive of weariness.
Some instinct of the plains must have guided them, for at last they dragged themselves out from the desert, the crunching sand under foot changing into rock, and then to short brittle grass, at which the ponies nibbled eagerly.
In vain they lay flat, urging their ponies forward; the beasts, maddened and blinded by the merciless lashing of the sand, refused to face the storm.
Both ponies were restive, but not vicious, and after a plunge or two, to test their new masters, came easily under control.
The fugitive stepped boldly forward, afraid that otherwise he might startle the ponies and thus create an alarm.
They had debated this fiercely once, the ponies standing dejectedly, tails to the storm, Neb arguing that the wind still blew from the south, and Keith contending it had shifted into the westward.
Keith leaned forward, staring at the string of deserted ponies tied to the rail.
Only grim necessity--the suffering of the ponies for water, and their own need for soon reaching the habitation of man and acquiring food--drove them to the early venture.
But there were two dead ponies lying back yonder; neither shod, yet both had borne saddles.
They had covered ten miles of it by daybreak, their ponies travelling heavily, fetlock deep, but could advance no further.
It was an awful trail, the hoofs sinking deep in drifting sand, the struggling ponies becoming so exhausted that their riders finally dismounted, and staggered forward on foot, leading them stumbling blindly after.
Think you there is a farm where I could not leave the ponies and get the loan of other?
Indeed, the trail by which the laden ponies had passed was still clearly evident, and Jean was roused to anger against the headstrong brother who had risked bringing all about the house into trouble.
Tying their ponies to trees, they lifted the heavy gates off their hinges and "angled" them skillfully across the road so as to form a barrier which must stop the horses and carriage.
But the ponies drew away, and there was nothing for him but to snuggle down with a buzz and a grumble among the wet bluebells and wait for daybreak, for sobriety and with it a new sense of direction.
The ponies were going easily now, their masters being sure that they were far in advance of their time.
Neale saw to it that the lively ponies did not travel too fast for the old dog.
All but a half a dozen of the ponies and mules of the band had been gathered and tethered in what is called a "corral," only that it had no fence, at a short distance from the lodges.
He was furnished with one of the best ponies in the drove in acknowledgment of his services.
As soon as he had cut and trimmed a very long and serviceable tree-branch all the other ponies and the mules perfectly understood what it was for.
So far as he could see, the only ponies now missing from the drove were the ones which had not been stampeded, but had remained in camp to be eaten.
All their drove of stolen quadrupeds and their own superfluous ponies made up a sort of rear-guard, driven and cared for by about a dozen of the less distinguished braves, with orders to make as good speed as possible.
By five or six minutes past three all of that herd were racing westward, with boys and men getting out of breath behind it, and all the squaws in the camp were holding hard upon the lariats of the ponies tethered among the lodges.
Judge Parks was not sorry to hear of such an addition to his little garrison, as the Nez Percé warriors could be fully depended upon to fight well for their ponies and lives.
In a few minutes more the Nez Percé ponies were squeezing their packs through the narrow entrance of the notch, and a succession of approving grunts from Long Bear testified the satisfaction he felt at getting into so secure a fort.
They had not found any, but they had found all the grass dry and parched by a long drought, so that no buffalo in his senses was likely to be there, and so that their own ponies could hardly make a living by picking all night.
The drove of ponies and mules was the centre of attraction, after Two Arrows had finished his recital, and every Nez Percé searched it eagerly for his own.
Before they finished that council the ponies had gained several miles more the start of them.
Just about the time when the ponies began to go into the camp-kettles he was a dog hard to find, although he managed to steal pony-bones and carry them away into the sage-brush.
The wicked old mule that had engineered the stampede of the Nez Percé ponies had continued to hold his position as captain.
On the evening before the stampede that band of Nez Percés had been well supplied with riding ponies and pack-mules, and had also been rich in dogs.
They did secure a few rabbits and sage-hens and one small antelope, but all the signs of the times grew blacker and blacker, and it was about as well to kill and eat the remaining ponies as to let them die of starvation.
The grey ponieswere sent down the river by the last boat from Rondout.
After breakfast she had her bag to pack; and a little later the grey ponies trotted round the sweep and drew up at the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
