At this point a remonstrance from the drawing-room at the delay of the appearance of the males caused a stampede and ended the discussion.
When the stampede came, I got my hands on Moze and held him.
Owing to that stampede we did not get saddled and started till eleven o'clock.
Every one made a dash to avert the disaster on hearing their leader's words, but the stampede had already begun.
Why, there were hundreds and thousands all about yonder when the stampede began.
Getting up a stampede like that and chipping and straining themselves, all on account of a bear.
After which a domestic scrimmage and a stampede ensued, and, seizing hats and coats, the guests hurriedly departed.
Often did this stampede continue for a mile, till straggling cabs, on their way to their stables, picked up the stragglers, and landed them in less disturbed districts.
You must have a quiet horse for that, for if your horse was to begin to play tricks he would stampede the cattle, sure.
A cow herd will never stampede if there are a lot of young calves in it; but they don't settle themselves comfortable to sleep.
Some say sixty men have been drowned in that one rapid; some say a hundred and sixty-five, counting in the Chinamen and Frenchmen who were drowned in the big stampede the time so manny started down to the diggings on rafts.
The story is that a hundred and sixty-five men of that stampedewere drowned in one year on the Death Rapids.
During the interval there is a general incursion of spectators into the ground, and a stampede by the more enthusiastic to the tent where the great umpire is known to be "on show" for a short time.
Language both bad and bitter was hourly exchanged between men on this strenuous stampede to the Klondyke in the fall of '97.
Melanesians, unlike cattle, are as prone to stampede to attack as to retreat.
The rush for trains by that panic-thralled crowd of refugees resembled a stampede of wild cattle.
He fired, and immediately a wild stampede took place from all sides with thunderous roarings, while a bulky body leapt into the firelight and rolled over, clawing the ground in its death-throes.
We were mushing it on the same stampede from Fairbanks to Ruby Creek, and he never had seen me before.
But the inevitable stampede had followed on the Nevada man's heels, and the strike turned out small.
The Chamber suddenly came to life with a wild movement of dispersion, something comparable to the stampede of a herd or the panic of an army.
However, the name of the orator who was now being given the floor served to check the stampede somewhat, much as routs have been stopped by some great historic warcry.
Our men, taking it as an insult, yesterday fired upon them, causing a stampede among them.
But there was an alarm, night before last, growing out of a stampede of some 50 of the enemy's beeves.
One of the best stories of "Vagabondia" ever written, and one of the most accurate and picturesque of the stampede of gold seekers to the Yukon.
One of the best stories of "Vagabondia" ever written, and one of the most accurate and picturesque descriptions of the stampede of gold seekers to the Yukon.
Fear is the most contagious thing in the world; and that flap of fear by the other bird thrilled her, too, but as she had withstood the stampede of the colony, so she caught herself again and held on.
Had the cattle been horses, would Peroxide Jim have been able to keep himself outside the stampede and above the spirit of the herd?
Nevertheless there is almost a stampede of sentiment against specialization and its product--the large industrial organization.
This stampede has taken many of our otherwise well informed people, and now we are seeing its extreme effect in the iconoclastic fever that is raging in Russia and elsewhere.
The Judge, holding tightly to Stephen, pushed his way fiercely to the stand, vowing over and over that the commotion was a secession trick to spoil the furniture and stampede the sale.
Billy Nebrasky tipped him the wink in time to git the inside track, just before the Fall Stampede up the gulch.
Whenever you see eighty or ninety more drunks than usual, you know there's either been a stampede or else justice has been administered.
The minute they hear of gold across the line there'll be a stampede out of Dawson.
Minnie Bryan was sure she had seen him skulking round Maudie's after that lady had gone up the trail, but everybody had been too excited about the stampede to notice particularly.
But this matter of a stampede is not controlled by reason; it is a thing of the nerves; while you are ridiculing someone else your legs are carrying you off on the same errand.
Anybody that don't join a stampede will be held guilty o' grand larceny.
Eve the less inflammable muttered darkly that it was all up with Minoók, if a person couldn't go on a stampede without havin' his dust took out of his cabin.
Of course our success relieved my anxiety about the wagons; but fancy has often pictured since, the stampede of six mule teams that, had we met with any reverse, would have taken place over the prairies of southwest Missouri.
Wagner and Harker soon overtook the rearguard, and a slight skirmish caused it to break, permitting nine guns and a large number of wagons which were endeavoring to get away in the stampede to fall into our hands.
The wind and the sleet caused a stampede at the picket line.
A miniature stampede resulted until the several hundred nose-bags were adjusted and hay shook out along the picket line.
Some of the Congressmen who yelled the loudest for a march straight into Richmond without a pause even to water the horses got tangled up in that stampede from Bull Run.
The politicians have a stampede on that is about to swamp everything.
The least break in our ranks will be the signal for a stampedeto P.
At 10 o'clock the enemy entered Abingdon, driving out a picket of thirty men I had left there and causing another stampede of the clerical detail.
The teamsters took them to be Yankees, and the wildest stampede ensued.
While at Shelbyville, the first and only causeless stampede of our pickets and false alarm to the camps which occurred during our squadron organization, took place.
Night, and the paralyzing effect of the stampede upon our army, made pursuit impossible.
