She was holding with all her strength to the reins, but the horse, a tall, rawboned creature, was past control.
In the glare of the store lights, some of the faces looked dry and chalky; others were red with blotches and puffed in the cheeks and under the eyes; one or two were rawboned and reminded one of railroad hands.
Several others were rawboned and sallow, as if they had been beaten upon by all sorts of rough weather.
From a slim, silent, self-willed girl Susan had grown up into a tall, rather rawbonedand energetic young woman.
Presently they found themselves established between a rawboned young workingman who smelled strongly of soap, whose hair was plastered tightly against his forehead, and a young woman who leaned against the wall.
Go back to the uncle and the rawboned lover who sent you, and inform them that I'll speak when the time comes.
He was followed by two rawboned men who travelled without baggage.
Neil had lashed them into fury, and one rawboned fellow, a blacksmith, wedged through them with purple face and upraised fist.
But she rides well--sits that great rawboned mare of hers gloriously.
The Roundheads came from the western, more mountainous part of the Keystone State, and were of the vigorous Scotch-Irish stock, with many tall, rawboned men.
From his lofty seat on the big, rawboned black horse, Pernales looked down at the son of the widow Quesada and measured, with his eyes, the boy's extreme youthfulness and preposterous lack of strength and size.
Garbed in the once elegant clothes of the dead Frenchman, even to his slouch traveling hat, Quesada sat deep in the doctor's saddle and carefully guided the old rawboned nag down the loops of the goat path.
Then, with all the hauteur of one riding an Arabian barb, sitting rigid in the saddle, the senor doctor loped his rawboned old nag up the winding goat path toward the barrio.
Don Jaime crashed his rawboned old horse through the tall buckthorn and entangled genista.
Perhaps Thomas had felt the sting of Randolph pride that a daughter had married a homely rawboned Jefferson, but all the man in him rose up for that Jefferson from whom he was sprung.
Thomas Jefferson, the son, was just such a thin homely rawboned youth as his father had been.
Go back to the uncle and the rawboned lover who sent you, and inform them that I’ll speak when the time comes.
