So Alaeddin lighted down from his stallion and said to them, "Do with me that which the Sultan biddeth you, for that his commandment is upon the head and eyes.
It was Guy the Stallion who jumped up, swaggered, tightened his belt, and looked at his comrades’ faces.
He thought of Merlin and the Stallion and those beasts of the field, and the hot youth in him grew mad and furious.
Guy the Stallion came at him with a swaggering rage, and for the moment the boors held back to watch the tussle, such a smiting together of swords not being seen on every day of the week.
It may be that Father Merlin had passed an hour in the quarry before Guy the Stallion and his men heard a throttled voice calling for help.
Her voice might have been the sound of the Last Trump so far as Guy the Stallion was concerned, for he picked himself up, drew a sleeve across his face, and attempted an unsteady swagger.
She glanced up suddenly and caught Guy the Stallion watching her mockingly, laughing at the jealousy that she could not hide.
The Stallion came out from behind a holly bush, carrying his sword on his shoulder, the red twists of his beard ferocious as ever.
They had given her a pony to carry her lute and her baggage, and Guy the Stallion marched at no great distance like a sergeant-at-arms, with fat Blanche trailing sulkily after him.
His hands and feet were free enough, but the sides of the quarry went up like a castle wall, and Guy the Stallion and twenty men lay night and day among the bushes that half closed the entry.
Fulk saw Guy the Stallion to the front as usual, cocking his red beard fiercely, with that hacked old sword of his over his shoulder.
Half lying on a sheep-skin and poking the fire with a charred stick, Big Blanche, the singing-woman, listened to Jack Straw and Guy the Stallion disputing over some point of policy.
On the parapet of the bridge sat Isoult with Guy the Stallion standing beside her.
There was a crowding in of the smocked figures through the doorway, but Guy the Stallion bellowed them back.
Guy the Stallion was the first man to leap forward, but death took him before he could strike a blow.
There were about twenty men on the farther bank, thorough rapscallions and cut-throats, all of them, whom Guy the Stallion and the Polecat had got together.
After a time a boy on a big, dancing, spotted stallion drove a large band of horses up in front of the snake medicine lodge and then the medicine man came out to look at them.
At daybreak we stopped to change to fresh horses, and as I turned loose the stallion I signed to Little Wolf: 'There!
The stallion was picketed between it and the cliff.
My Crow friend nudged me, pointed to the big stallion and then signed to me: 'I shall take that horse to-night, and others with him!
In addition to the contrabandista's horse, Borrow had acquired "a black Andalusian stallion of great size and strength, and capable of performing a journey of a hundred leagues in a week's time.
He rode a savage stallion from the forests of Germany, whose pale yellow coat was spotted with black.
We were thus engaged when Neroweg's stallion rolled to the ground under the feet of Tom-Bras, whose rage seemed to increase with his success.
It required a rude handling of the reins and of the flat of my sword before I could cause my courser to desist from his infuriated assault upon the other stallion that he held under and kicked and bit unmercifully.
The black stallion was loose; with crunching jaws he had fastened on the arm of Shandy, in the corner of the stall, and was trying to pull the boy down that he might trample him to death.
At the first cry of defiance from the black stallion Lauzanne had stretched high his head and sent back, with curled nostril, an answering challenge.
Naught had this stallion of Barbary known save love and tenderness; and now, with drooping head, he looked upon the cursing King, and wondered.
When the warmth of morning came again, the two went on their way; yet a red sun rose to harry them, to pour its light upon them in a wavy glare; and the stallion of Barbary reeled toward the east.
In the last mile the stallion stumbled twice, but after both breaks in his stride ran on more swiftly for many yards, as though to make up to his master for the jolting the half falls gave him.
And the stallion responded, scudding through the blue moonlight with a speed that seemed beyond the power of flesh to attain.
In the face of his wretched weakening the stallion became merely a conveyance, a convenience, a means for stifling the neurotic excitement within him.
He guided the stallion to a half-wrecked log house south of the road, dismounted, and stood a moment before the shack, his glittering eyes on the squares of light yonder under the rising hill.
He hammered the Captain's shoulder with his clenched fist and the great stallionsnuggled his cheek closer to the man, trying to understand, trying to comfort.
The stallion did not fidget at sight of the girl as he had done on the approach of other strangers.
The spirit of the stallion stirred in him again that vibrant chord which had been urging him to fight on, not to give up.
A weaker man would have quit then, would have let the stallion flounder to his finish, would have waited submissively for Rhues to come and shoot him down.
The stallion tried once more to rally his mates into escape, but their hearts were bursting, their lungs clogged.
The stallion grunted under the stress of his effort, moving for the moment with less uncertainty, with a jot more speed.
The stallionstood dazed, looking down at the thing which would not let him kick, which would not let him step.
By all natural rights somebody ought to shoot a stallion that'll run wild so long an' drive off bunches of gentle mares an' make 'em crazy wild.
But the great stallion was not insensible to the situation.
Contrary to the rules of horse-nature, the stallion had not flinched at sight of the snake, but actually advanced a high-headed pace or two with his short ears laid flat on his neck, and a sudden red fury in his eyes.
The stallion stood barely fifteen hands, but to see him was to forget his size.
Fascinated by the raging fire the black stallion Satan would break from the shed and rush into the flames!
The black stallion was handicapped many yards at the start before Dan could swing him around after the roan darted past with poor Morgan in ludicrous pursuit.
Outside he whistled to Satan, and the stallion trotted up to him.
Out of the willows came Satan and Black Bart and stood beside him, the stallion nosing his shoulder affectionately.
Several times he felt hot breath against his cheek as the horse turned a curious head towards him, but he paid no attention, even when the stallion whinnied a question in his ear.
Black Bart, with lolling red tongue, ran under his head, looking up to the stallion now and again with a comical air of proprietorship, as if he were showing the way.
The ground was covered with a quantity of dried bunch grass which a glorious blackstallion was cropping.
He shook the reins and the stallion leaped off after Calder's trotting pony.
The horse, also, with a high head scanned the circling willows, alert; but the man for whom the stallion and the wolf watched gave no heed to either.
The stallion stood motionless with the veritable fires of hell in his eyes as Calder approached.
Dan spoke to Satan and the stallion broke into a swift gallop which left the pony of Tex Calder labouring in the rear.
The marshal's mind was too full for speech, but now and again he turned a long glance of wonder upon the stallion or Black Bart.
My riding the big stallion gave me a mighty prestige, for I learned later that many had tried him and no one had kept the saddle for two minutes.
The young woman riding a tall gray and white stallion beside Claudius de Marion had humorous blue eyes and a wide mouth.
Hilda had seen the red banner disappear for a moment, and anxiously gave her stallion a light blow with her hand.
Then I begged Gibamund--and so thestallion is yours, do you see?
The woman's low, hissing tones ceased, and she pointed with outstretched arm to the Numidian road, down which the stallion had vanished.
I will withdraw the stallion from the races," he said aloud to Thrasabad.
It is a three-year-old black stallion of Spanish breed, with a Moorish strain, reared in Cyrene.
And the stallion has gone to the devil; my game is over.
Early this morning, a Moor, not the fugitive, brought the stallion into my courtyard.
Because no one will bet against the stallion which Modigisel entered last of all.
He could not answer; for while the racehorses, the stallion among them, were being led from the Circus into the square between it and the Amphitheatre, loud shouts rang from the exits of the latter.
When Gibamund, on his white charger, led his men forward, Hilda on her splendid stallion rode at his side.
I will not take the stallion until after we have thrown the dice," cried Modigisel.
He told me he had traded some blooded horses and a stallion for them.
During the fall of 1863 a small band of Comanches and Kiowas went to Texas and procured a white faced, white footed, tall, slim black stallion for racing purposes.
The race is won, and the black stallionstands erect and excited, proud and defiant, and has won the laurel for his man, and seems to know that the trophy is theirs.
Just beyond gun range the stallion turned sharply at right angles and sped off over the prairie.
With quick intelligence the stallion noted that this arroyo wound about until its mouth gave upon the side of the mesa not a hundred yards from where he stood.
This stallion came to be known as Black Eagle, and to be thoroughly feared and hated from one end of the cattle country to the other.
Even when the man came close enough to examine the wound and pat the shining neck that for three years had known neither touch of hand nor bridle-rein, the great stallion did no more than follow with curious, steady gaze.
In that time the big stallion and the silent man buried distrust and hate and enmity.
Weeks went by and still the brandedstallion remained free and unhurt, for no cow horse in all the West could keep him in sight half an hour.
Looking back he saw fully a score of horses, the buckskin stallion in the van, charging after him.
Just how it all came about the big stallion did not fully understand at the time.
Some months later Arizona stockmen began to hear tales of a great band of wild horses, led by a magnificent black stallion which was fleeter than a scared coyote.
And generally they caught glimpses of a great black branded stallion who led the marauders at such a pace that he seemed almost to fly through the air.
Then, just as the cowboy brought his rifle into position for the finishing shot, the stallion threw up his handsome head, his big eyes blazing like two stars, and looked defiantly at his enemy.
I believe the little stallion was getting as excited as I was.
There were high words along the railing among the duke's supporters, Captain Lewis, in his anger, going above an inference that the stallion had been broken privately.
Passing one of the great barns, she heard the trumpet call of a stallion and, turning, saw in the corral one of those glorious brutes which Bud Lee had spoken of to Trevors as "clean spirit.
The stallionuttered shrill neighs of protest at being left behind, and Princess balked at leaving her constant companion.
The great stallion cantered up, and the outlaw swiftly changed saddles.
Like the guanaco of South America, the wild stallion always dungs in one particular spot, near the watering-place, so that when hunting them we always looked out for and inspected these little hillocks.
II The good stallion took the sledge along at a brisk pace over the smooth-frozen road through the village, the runners squeaking slightly as they went.
Tom Collins' story of how he had chased the stallion and the creature had so suddenly disappeared, was now explained.
There followed a renewed burst of applause and laughter when his stallion gravely bent his head, as though in a similar acknowledgment.
But before he could summon sufficient courage to carry out his half-formed design, a mortal terror returned strong upon him, and forthwith he sent his stallion past it at a furious gallop.
Ordering his stallion made ready upon the instant, he tossed the groom a generous handful of coins and made off at a rattling pace through the dull streets of the little town.
Ordering his stallion instantly to be made ready, he galloped madly then against the face of the rising sun, hoping in this manner to cool his heated temples.
Two grooms led his stallionto the front of his pavilion.
The same is the general-rule throughout creation, for instance the stallion compared with the mare, the cock with the hen; while there are sundry exceptions such as the Falconidae.
