One of the rear guard held its lead rope and kept as far from the skittish animal as he could.
And twice since then Drew had taken him back and forth to bring in skittish mounts causing trouble.
The wind, with a prankish flurry, flapped the flying newspaper against the face of the skittish bay.
Up that street was driving a skittish bay to a spider-wheel buggy, the young man who had written to the heart-to-heart editor for a recipe that he might win her for whom he sighed.
Trust not a skittish horse, nor a great lord, when they shake their heads.
P-Q3 Historians and sociologists who studied the German peoples had found themselves in sudden demand among the politicians and media of the smaller, more skittish nations; and their separate conclusions had been nothing if not ambiguous.
This fact was so striking in one of his (outwardly) skittish nature, that more than one of the military leaders who reviewed it (including Dubcek) went back to the examining psychologist to ask for an explanation.
I opened it with sensible shrinkings; and there, wedged between an account of a prize-fight and a skittish article upon chiropody--think of chiropody treated with a leer!
There's the noo brown 'oss now, it's a skittish 'un.
You girls want the lesson we read to skittish recruits; you shall have it.
Skittish filly was among his phrases; but she had a bearing and a gaze that forbade the dip in the common gutter for wherewithal to paint the creature she was.
Her scorn, however, may have meant no more than the natural coyness of a maiden whom the learned Upton somewhat drolly designates as "a skittish female.
Having broken off several more, and again pulled back the others, the skittish animal consented to pass.
But since we are neither Hindoos nor Egyptians, nor skittish heathen of any sort, we take defiant attitudes and look through smoked glasses.
Though whether pushed to that length merely by wayward fancy, by some transientskittish influence or frolic in the blood, or by realized design he had no means of judging.
Sally looked up quickly from her sewing across the hearth to where her stalwart husband sat with crossed legs, making of his swinging right foot a make-believe skittish horse for Milton, junior, age three.
Skittish colts make the tamest ones in harness," said she.
Do the servants, who, as you observe, see herskittish airs, disrespect you for them?
In the next field there were two or three skittish colts, which they scared into all manner of hysterical behavior as they sped across.
He was like a woman sitting beside a driver of skittish horses, saying to herself: "No, I won't scream or seize the reins till I must!
You want a young horse, and this is young, and you don't want a skittish horse, and all young horses are more or less that way.
A skittish animal like this colt ain't fit for a woman to drive," said Mrs. Potter.
It is a perilous ascent, and hangs almost over the river, nor is there any sufficient barrier to prevent a skittish horse from plunging from the giddy height into the deep, swift stream below.
The road is well fenced on either side, or it would require some courage to drive young skittish horses along this dangerous pass.
But don't talk bear much before the girls, or we shall get them so skittish that we cannot stir.
Awful skittish at everything they see, particularly women-folks.
We kept this wild-headed little Jersey at the farm for seven or eight years afterwards, and several of her calves made good cows; but to the end of her life she was always a skittish little creature, apt to take fright at any moment.
It seems Rupert wasskittish about havin' naval officers snoopin' around the yacht.
In the type before us, even the gloom and wrath of the captain's countenance were lost sight of in the final skittish and disastrous arrangement, through the day's perils, of his hair.
Why, I had thought that the hill in front of old Grout Nickelson's wuz steep, and the road a skittish one that wound around it above the creek.
In this grand battue of the sea it was clearly impossible to round-up and capture every skittish son of Neptune.
