The seat must be close and the rider should rely on balance and not on the grip of the knees, except in jumping or in emergencies, such as shying or bucking.
Together they lifted the light figure into the Cape cart, and, Lees still holding it in his arms, drove away to the Spring Bok Hotel, Duikerport, the mules shying and plunging at the lightning playing on the rocks around.
On he rushed, the ridge rising darkly before him, and then he was at its foot, and up and through the trees that clothed it, his horse shying at prone green figures and grim silent shapes of guns.
The vices which in the eye of the law make a horse returnable are Biting, Cribbing, Kicking, Rearing when dangerous, andShying when dangerous.
The bush sprays seemed to take on all manner of weird shapes; and once my horse, shying and snorting at a big hare, squatting up on its haunches like a big idiot, bang in the middle of the path, gave me quite an unpleasant start.
Had never, indeed, attempted seriously to make out, shying from such investigation as disloyal and, in a way, irreverent.
Yet all the while, as her hearing clearly testified, the unseen ponies hustled one another, plunging, shying away from the swish and crack of a long-thonged whip.
Whenever he is not shying at things, or reaching after a fly, he wants to do that yet.
He was young, and had a bad name for shying and starting, by which he had lost a good place.
Here you are shying either at an English school treat or at some nice American children.
The only disadvantage about shying at disagreeable things like tutors is that one hardly ever gets rid of them after all.
I don't see how I can very well be the editor of The Planet so long as it insists on shying a dead cat every week at the editor of Metropolis.
It has always reserved to itself an absolutely untrammelled hand in the shying of dead cats; and because a man happens to be a friend of the editor, it's no guarantee whatever that he won't have one slung at him the minute he deserves it.
He was sitting on the disselboom of a tent-waggon smoking a pipe, and meditatively shying pebbles at an itinerant scarabaeus, which was wandering aimlessly about on a sun-baked open patch of ground about seven yards off.
So far from it, they flogged the shying ponies into line and rode on stolidly; and thus in a little time that danger was overpast and the evening silence of the mighty forest was ours to keep or break as we chose.
Somebody's doped him," said Pink with decision, after three hours of shying around the subject.
As to the cause of his shying at a certain object, that happened long ago.
Whether a horse shies from real fright, or from mere pretense or affectation, the severe use of whip or spur to force him by the object he is shying at will always do more harm than good.
Shying sometimes due to defective vision, and at other times to discontent.
At the same time Dawes's horse, shying violently, nearly unseated his rider.
Why, I'll summon you for shying stones at me and starting off my horse.
Tm afraid we were too many this morning for that shying left-wheeler.
It is true a lady's shying may break your heart; but that don't count.
I always believe that shying and all that kind of trick in a horse is the fault, in nearly every case, of the rider.
Dogs exhibit much the same skittishness; even old animals gamble like puppies when they are taken out, and the shying which results from freshness in horses should be tolerated within, of course, reasonable limits.
The voice has always stood me in good stead with shying horses, who soon get to regard it as a sure sign that they have nothing to fear.
As shying is the most common vice among horses, we may consider it first.
When ridden by my husband or myself, she loved to show off by shying at a white gate, a heap of stones, a piece of paper, a bird, or any imaginable thing that she could find as an excuse to dart suddenly from one side of the road to the other.
He wondered if he were really something of a bore with it, and whether men were shying off from him at the club on account of it.
No," he said quickly, shying with the instinct of an easy pleasure-loving nature from a possible grave situation.
The shying man is one who has not much respect for himself, who is envious and jealous of others, and who, however strongly he may protest against the charge, has the most abject respect for social position and arbitrary social distinctions.
I know of no more thankless task than the attempt to assure shying people that we love them, respect them, and are glad to continue their acquaintance.
I can only notice briefly the shying that is done by the other side of society.
It is in this class that we meet with shying men and shying women.
Indeed, I have felt toward them a degree of friendliness and kindness which I would have been very glad to express, had they afforded me an opportunity; but they were shying men by nature, or by habit, or by whim.
Well, I have met shying men, and I meet them upon the sidewalk almost every day.
I recognize no difference between the two shying classes--the men who shy their fellow-men because they are high, and the men who shy their fellow-men because they are low.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
