A pile of skulls and horns of sable and roan antelope, wildebeeste, etc.
The would-be assassin had, during the past few minutes, been driven into this gulch, riding a roan horse.
She knew that the roan was pounding forward with the best speed in him, and presently she knew too that no speed could save her.
Slim and Jim Budd were around and recognized that roan and its rider.
This was that the roan with the white stockings had been picked up seven miles from Noches the morning after the holdup.
He contented himself with saying that the roan with the white stockings had been stolen from the pasture before the holdup.
That roanwas in Noches yesterday, and you were on its back.
He said you were riding theroan with white stockings.
One of them rode an iron-gray, the other a roanwith white stockings.
The roanwith the white stockings showed a red ridge across its flank where a bullet had furrowed a path.
The little cloud of dust had come nearer and disclosed as its source a rider on a rangy roan with four white-stockinged feet.
He rode away not five minutes ago as big as coffee on that ugly roan of his with the white stockings; knew what we thought about him, but didn't pay any more attention to us than as if we were bumps on a log.
The finding of the stocking-footed roan near Noches so soon after the robbery disposed of Healy's lie, though it did not prove that Keller had not been riding it at the time of the holdup.
I found Mr. Keller riding a roan with four white stockings and a wound on its flank.
Dick saw it all clearly the moment that the roan halted and stretched his head forward, breathing hard.
That's Hero, the best roadster in the stable," said the man, pointing to a big roan horse.
My roan horse to your old shoes," said he, "Fulke brings me the King's Summons to leave Pevensey and join the war.
Pleasingly conspicuous among a bunch of indifferent riders pacing along by the rails where the onlookers were thickest was Courtenay Youghal, on his handsome plum-roan gelding Anne de Joyeuse.
When Michael's safe gone I'll ride the roan over to the Green Dragon at Punchford; when you see the cob stabled at the Green Dragon 'tis a sign you may come back agen.
Old Biddy is getting a bit up in years, though 'er goes well still, but I'll have the little roan saddled and brought round to door.
Old George, the roan cob, and Bowker's pup were his sole companions in a world that was otherwise frostily silent and hostile.
Mrs. Pat's roan cob had attacked and defeated the fourteen Irish miles with superfluous zeal, and there were still several minutes before the hounds could be reasonably expected on the scene.
We all of us changed horses a good deal in those days, and I and the roan had several partings and re-unitings.
I said good-bye to the roanand Argentine, and took over a fine pair of bays.
Next we embarked the horses by matted gangways (it took six men to heave my roan on board), and ranged them down below in their narrow stalls on the stable-deck.
My roan was always a sort of a pariah among the sub-division horses, an incorrigible kicker and outcast, having to be picketed on a peg outside the lines for his misdeeds.
It used to take our whole sub-division to shove my roan in.
My dun was a peaceful beast, but the roan was a by-word in the sub-division.
The preacher down at Coles he had not very much to say; He harnessed up the old roan horse and hitched it to the sleigh, And piled in so much provisions that his wife said, tearfully, She didn't have a cake or pie left in the house for tea.
In this hour if thou hast need of thy noble red-roan steed, Thou hast also need of me.
In this hour I stand in need of my noble red-roan steed, But no more of my noble wife.
And the bridegroom led the flight on his red-roan steed of might-- Toll slowly.
And if he wasn't riding a roan horse, he was riding a saddle with brass-bound stirrups, anyway.
She was a tallroan girl with the fashionable streamline body, devoted to the ukulele and ladies' wearing apparel.
The stout little roan was gathering its muscular limbs under it, and stretching to the gallop as if it were steel and whale-bone instead of flesh and blood.
And so it came about that in ten minutes he was in his hunting-kit, and in ten more he was riding out of his stable-yard with his roan mare 'Matilda' between his knees.
A young lad named Jimmy Kincaid first tackled the job, and as he ran alongside and tried the cinch, the roan dropped an ear back--the ear toward Jimmy, and the knowing ones giggled with glee.
That wall-eyed roan is mine, so is the sorrel mare with the star face.
The lad gathered the reins in his left hand, seized the pommel with his right, and then the roan disclosed his true nature.
A wall-eyed roan pony, looking dull and stupid, was led before the stand.
A dozen times before that day he had shown his powerful roan to be the fleeter animal.
He clung to her and carried her out at his side in that way until his own frightened roan could be pulled up, panting and bewildered, with the blood staining the foam from its bruised mouth.
On the summit ofRoan Mountain is the Cloudland Hotel, at an elevation of more than sixty-three hundred feet, the highest human habitation east of the Rockies, and having a magnificent view.
High mountains are all about, and to the eastward from Johnson City a narrow-gauge railway ascends through the romantic canyon of Doe River, in places fifteen hundred feet deep, up the Roan Mountain to Cranberry.
Then you can have that red roan over there for a night horse, and I'll cut you out some more bronks bymeby.
Twice he jumped as he came to dykes of rock, and Bowles stayed with him like a hurdler; then, with a lightning scramble over the loose stones, he took the trail from the roan and went pounding down the hill.
The roan came along just then and Bowles made a cast at him and caught two others, who instantly made away with his rope.
Dixie, turning her eager roan after them; and helter-skelter over the rough rocks, swinging and ducking under trees and jumping over boulders and bushes, she went spurring after the cattle.
You ride old Gray and the roan for a while--understand?
But first he must not leave the big roan to suffer needlessly and hopelessly.
He loosened his reins a little, gave the big roan his head, and swept on through the ghostly-lighted country.
It was with a deep sigh of relief that he straightened up when he saw that either chance or a remarkable skill with a rifle had saved Brocky Lane's roan from any protracted pain.
