He gave me that quirt till I was insane with rage; long afterward he told me my eyes turned green.
And I never dreamed what was going to happen till he laid the quirt across my face like a knife.
The gray hesitated--almost as if to give his wanton mistress a chance to reconsider; but he got the quirt for his pains.
Billy Louise slashed at a ripening branch of service berries with her quirtand scared Blue so that he lunged against the romancer.
If we're going to discuss your father you had better get your quirt again," the sheepman suggested, touching a scar on his face.
Her quirt went swiftly up and down, cut like a thin bar of red-hot iron across his uplifted face.
The others, limping and foot-sore, no longer responded to quirt and rowel.
A murmur of voices followed, and then an almost womanish yell, for Lightning, the favorite, was out in front, and his rider leaned in the saddle with arm suspended and a quirt which never fell.
That rider, confident of victory, had slipped his quirt over his wrist and was hand-riding his horse when a brief, deep yell of dismay from the crowd made him jerk a glance over his shoulder.
He cut the quirt into the flank of the roan, but it was too late.
He went straight up into the air, and then bucked as long as his wind held out, the while Frosty's quirt kept time with the tails of his coat.
I reined Shylock sharply out of the trail, saw a place where the fence looked a bit lower than the average, and put him straight at it with quirt and spurs.
With the quirt in his right hand, Jack mounted again, and again put the horse into a gallop, watching the ground ahead of him, and doing his best to guide him where it was smooth.
At the same instant Dingwell's loose arm grew rigid and the loaded end of the quirt dropped on the head of Fox.
A braided leather quirt lay on the table and beside it a spur one of the boys had brought in to be riveted.
I might 'a' busted you high and wide with that quirt instead of giving you a nice little easy tap that just did the business.
John rode up, slapping his chaps with his quirt to let the stranger know that he was a horseman also and giving fair warning of his approach.
Oh, I guess not," said John consolingly, as he walked about, kicking the tufted buffalo grass and swishing his quirt about aimlessly.
The feathers in his war-bonnet fluttered in the wind, and the quirt hung on his upraised right wrist swayed with the motion of his pony.
With quirt and spur he drove the beast here and there, punishing it, giving it no rest, allowing it to do nothing in its own way until it staggered and heaved and swayed with fatigue and lack of breath, and yet he urged it.
Suddenly Ted brought his quirt down on the brute's flanks, and it leaped high into the air in an agony of fear and pain.
Ted loosened his rope, grasped his quirt firmly, and rode slowly toward the bull, while Stella signaled to Billy Sudden to ride up to the head of the herd.
A pair of big, Mexican spurs were on the heels of his boots; the inevitable cartridge-belt about his middle, sagging with the heavy pistol; a quirt dangled from his left hand.
The girl again whirled her quirt around till it cut the air with a hissing sound, and spoke to her horse.
Again she sent her quirt singing through the air, and her horse obeyed as though horse and rider were one.
I'll take a quirt to you if ye tell me to shut up ag'in!
He would not have hesitated to apply his quirt to his twenty-six-year-old son Moffat, as he had threatened to do, had not that young man possessed the wisdom born of experience to refrain from defying him.
Lockwood set his teeth against the agony of his foot and gave the bronco the quirt with all his strength.
The boy staggered back, half-blinded, as Bill Bender raised his heavy quirt and cut him full across the face with it.
Merritt, across whose face an angry red ridge lay, marking where the quirt had struck him.
He raised his heavyquirt above the pony's trembling flanks.
And Belle,--he was not at all sure whether he was too big for Belle's quirt to find the tender places on his legs, but he was very sure that the Irishman spoke the truth.
She struck Rab sharply with the quirt and dug in her heels.
Stand over--don't you try squeezing me against the wall, or I'll take my quirt to you!
He jumped straight forward at Belle, who dodged and landed the quirt none too gently on his nose.
Pick up your feet and travel, or I'll yank out your back bone and make a quirt out of it!
Jim Hicks, cracking his quirtabout the haunches of his pack animals.
Bud Wilson plied his heavy quirt on the pony's flanks as if he meant to lay the flesh open.
Jack, bringing down his quirt over his pony's flanks.
They rode with quirt and spur, guided only by the muffled pluckety-pluck, pluckety-pluck of Blink's horse fleeing always just before.
Then it was that Andy, his own temper a bit roughened by the murderous brute, rode as he had not ridden for many a day; down in the saddle, his quirt keeping time with the jumps.
Without waiting for the password into the mysteries of that chamber, Chadron had entered, his heavy quirt in hand, gauntlets to his elbows, dusty boots to his knees.
As he rode, Chadron swung his quirt in unison with the horse's undulations, from side to side across its neck, like a baton.
All day she had been dressed ready to mount and ride in any emergency, her hat, gloves and quirt on the table before the fireplace.
Before he could collect himself in his astonishment, she struck him a whistling blow with her long-thonged quirt across the face.
Chadron had taken up his quirt from the little round table where the hotel register lay.
She shifted her quirt as the quick desire to strike him down and ride over his ugly grinning face flashed through her.
Then Billy felt the quirt on his flank; he snorted with astonishment and disgust, and charged forward, tossing his head intolerantly.
Stroud ducked and shot a hand out, seized the quirt and wrenched it from her hand.
On his wrist there hung a wonderful Indian quirt of plaited rawhide and horsehair with beads on the shaft, and a band of Elk teeth on the butt.
The quirt landed on the fellow's cheek with such force as to lay it open and draw blood.
The second swing of the quirt was even more of a surprise to the mountaineer than had been the first.
But dire vengeance overtook them, for, like one possessed, the girl fell upon them with her quirt and beat them one after the other till, in pity for the brutes, I interposed.
Turning, I saw my pupil, as I guessed, standing at the head of a most beautiful pinto (spotted) pony with a heavy cattle quirt in her hand.
He was plying his quirt mercilessly but the animal moved slowly, and she could see that he limped.
A moment later the bay mare was following, the girl plying quirt and spur in an endeavour to keep the flying horseman in sight.
Horse went lame," he jerked out as he plied quirt and spurs.
He wanted to have a quirt jubilee right away, with you boys tied to stakes, and every puncher being allowed three cuts at your bare shoulders.
The quirt struck him squarely across his shoulders, and as there was only a thin garment to protect the skin, Jimmy gave utterance to an involuntary yell, though there may have possibly been more of anger in the outcry than distress.
Whatever he might be telling them it seemed to please the others immensely, for they laughed harshly; and one fellow immediately stepped over to take down his quirt from where it hung alongside the door of a shack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quirt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belt; cat; cowhide; crop; flagellum; horsewhip; lash; rawhide; scourge; strap; thong; whip; whiplash
