When the Englishman had seen my tiercet of sorrels, he came straight up to me and introduced a project of exchange, and wanted to take my sorrel for a black.
He drew his horse to one side, and sitting over with one foot in the long stirrup, plied the sorrel across the flank with a big, white-felt hat.
I do not remember what was said, but after the speaking, as we made our way homeward, we met Little Ramsey and the young man who rode the sorrel horse.
He was trying to make out what we were, and to determine why a perfectly good pair of sheep horns should grow out of the back of a sorrel mule!
As gently as possible I informed Milton that no sheep would ever stand and look at a sorrel mule for the length of time it would take us to foot it over that lava to camp, and return.
He had been overwhelmingly puzzled by the uncanny sight of a pair of curling horns like his own, growing out of the back of a long-eared sorrel mule which he felt had no zoological right to wear them.
In the beginning, Andy drew the HS sorreland Billy Roberts the blue roan.
Then he wheeled the big sorrel so that he faced those at the camp-fire.
That festive bunch up in the reserve seats'll think it's awful, and that the HS sorrel is a lady's hoss alongside him, but a real rider can wear him out.
Then it was that the HS sorrel went mad and pitched as he had never, even when building his record, pitched before.
Get up, darn yuh," he muttered, and when the sorrel gathered himself together and jumped up, he was much surprised to find Andy in the saddle again.
Slipping and sliding in the fog-dampened grass, they reached the spot, to find the big sorrel crumpled there, dead.
Over by the bed-wagon, a man they called Blink, for want of a better name, was fighting his big sorrel silently, with that dogged determination which may easily grow malevolent.
There was the pop of a pistol, a puff of blue against the gray, and then the fog reached out and gathered Blink and the sorrel to itself.
So Andy, watching his chance, jumped off when the sorrel stopped for a few seconds of breath, and left him unconquered and more murderous than ever.
Andy noted that it was the HS sorrel which did the mischief, and glanced meaningly across at Billy Roberts.
Reduce the gravy, with which glaze the meat, and serve with peas, stewed cucumbers, or sorrel sauce.
Glaze the larded side of the beef with this, and serve on sorrel sauce, which is made as follows:—Wash and pick some sorrel, and put it into a stewpan with only the water that hangs about it.
If too acid, add sugar; a little cabbage-lettuce boiled with the sorrel will be found an improvement.
You going to ride after that sorrel colt of Bartley's?
Some day, father says, that sorrel will be the death of us.
Bartley Hubbard drove his sorrel colt back to the hotel stable through the moonlight, and woke up the hostler, asleep behind the counter, on a bunk covered with buffalo-robes.
Only God A'mighty can make as good a sorrel as that!
Care is necessary that too much sulphuric acid be not used, as it would prevent the proper decomposition of manures, and would induce a growth of sorrel in the soil by making it sour.
It prevents the formation of acetic and other organic acids, which induce the growth of sorrel and similar weeds.
The decomposition of organic matter in the soil, often produces acids which makes the land sour, and cause it to produce sorrel and other weeds, which interfere with the healthy growth of crops.
Pachuca had turned the sorrel over to another man and was driving the car himself.
As he walked quickly in the direction of the house, he noticed Pachuca, for he it was on the sorrel horse, giving orders loudly in Spanish to his men who were scattered around the place--many of them down at the corral.
By this time, Pachuca had defeated the evident intentions of the sorrel to buck himself through the store window, and uttering a cry dashed off in the direction of the automobile.
The Irishman noticed that I was not feeling perfectly easy, and he said, "Sorrel top, wud yez take a bit of advice from the loikes of me?
I did not like to be called sorrel top, but if there was any danger I would take advice from anybody, so I told him to fire away.
I yelled to the captain to try and kill that long-legged rebel on the sorrel horse, and get my meershaum pipe, but he didn't hear me.
The sorrel still violently resisted the hand which held it in an iron grasp, and tried by unexpected lightning-like darts and plunges to throw its rider; but Nordeck's face showed that the old temper was rising within him.
Colonel Sorrel was sent to have that move guarded, and Pickett was drawn back to that contention.
I am very sorry to hear that your records were destroyed too; but I hope Sorrel and Latrobe will be able to supply you with all you require.
As soon as our horses could be saddled we started, Lieutenant-Colonels Sorreland Manning and myself, to find the head-quarters of the commanding general.
He rode a sorrel colt--one that had had its "first-riding" in the circular corral the day before Carolyn June and Ophelia arrived at the Quarter Circle KT.
Watercress, endive, or sorrel may be used either along with, or in place of, the lettuce for a change.
Hear how Mr. Ludlow constructs levying war out of the disobedience of a non-resistant Quaker in a felt hat and shirt-sleeves, mounted on a sorrel horse!
It appeared that Mr. Hanway went to the scene of action on a sorrel horse, in his shirt-sleeves, with a felt hat on, and did not join the Deputy in attempting to kidnap when commanded.
Probably, then, the man on the sorrel horse had picked it up.
Ah, there is an establishment he knows well: a sorrel horse and an old chaise.
The sorrel horse scents the water afar off, and begins to turn up long before he reaches the trough, thrusting out his nose in anticipation of the coot sensation.
But who was the man on the sorrel horse, and where had he gone?
At the top he encountered a stranger, on a sorrel horse, with whom he entered into conversation and extracted all the discouragement the man had as to the road to Burnsville.
Here with hunter's skill were roasted and served the sweet-meated arctic grouse savored with wild sorrel and scurvy grass from the near-by ravines.
During the brief arctic summer, under the surgeon's orders, the valleys were searched for sorrel and scurvy grass, which contributed to the improved physical health of the men.
Shirley found herself wedged in between Jupiter and a powerful sorrel on her other side.
Gradually the three leaders, Jupiter, Gabriel and the big sorrel forged ahead of the field, and at the three-quarter mark the sorrel dropped behind.
The sorrel was lathered, and stumbling frequently; Road Runner was pegging away like a donkey engine.
As his stirrups rattled against the brush Burrows's long-legged sorrel struck out down the narrow stretch of open prairie to the southwest.
When Burrows reached the end of the strip of prairie he pulled his sorrel to the right and let him pick his way daintily across a sacuista flat through which ran the ragged, dry bed of an arroyo.
I ain't bragging, Burr, but that sorrel of yours is weak in the fore-legs.
