Again, along the lake had she stampeded this crazed madman by impressive promptings about those bleaching bones.
Hearing of some criticisms upon his failure to contribute through a certain channel, Sir Donald remarks to Esther: "The rending instinct is not monopolized by that breed anciently stampeded 'down a steep place into the sea.
They saw with astonishment the cattle running in every direction, they having been stampeded by the Indians, who had shot and killed the three men who were on day-herd duty, and the red devils were now charging down upon the rest of us.
We caught but few of the cattle; the most of them having been driven off and stampeded with the buffaloes, there being numerous immense herds of the latter in that section of the country at that time.
Besides killing quite a number of buffaloes, and having a day of rare sport, we captured ten or twelve head of cattle, they being a portion of the herd which had been stampeded by the Indians, two months before.
During the previous spring the government herd had stampeded from Fort Leavenworth, and between two and three hundred of the horses were running at large over the Kansas prairies, and had become quite wild.
The buffalo herd stampededat once, and broke for the hills; so hotly were they pursued by the hunters that about five hundred of them rushed through our train pell-mell, frightening both men and oxen.
You might as well try to hunt for the print of a rabbit's foot in the trail of a herd of stampeded steers," said McGlory, after five precious minutes spent in fruitless examination.
He tried to play 'Yankee Doodle' on the pipes, in Indianapolis, and had almost stampeded the elephants before the calliope man could choke him off.
What would Motor Matt think of his nerve if he could know the game he had embarked upon, and how he had been stampeded in playing it?
There's a herd of stampededcattle coming straight for you.
Wall, there was two of them went over here yisterday, and all the beef critters on the Bar X range is plum stampeded all over the per-arie.
It was among these that Fazl let fall his bomb, and looking back, he shouted gleefully that one of the teams had stampeded and dashed with their gun over the bank into the river, while the other were plunging furiously amid a smother of smoke.
And I almost wish you hadn't stampeded the enemy's horses quite so thoroughly.
I was ready to move on to a permanent camp when, one morning, Bear Coat and his soldiers came in sight, and stampededour horses.
The camp sprang to arms, for officers and men knew their business; but here came the militia like a drove of stampeded cattle, legging frantically for shelter from a horde of whooping, darting Indians.
But sometimes they were forced to watch the enemy go whooping away with the stampeded stock from the corral.
But as had been said, the ground was of a nature that did not lend itself well to haste, and if the thieves stampeded their animals they would, very likely, lose them.
They never stampeded because they had to drink from streams where cows and horses had watered, nor did they refuse to nibble grass left by the larger animals.
These beef drives happens each time in the night; an' the cattle must have been stampeded complete to make the trip.
He guesses the new love which has stampeded Sunbright.
The ghost tales of the stampeded cow-punchers excites Dan Boggs a heap.
Those rustlers had never before been known to let loose their grip on a bunch of cattle, once they stampeded the same.
And chances were, that whole drove that was stampeded right under your eyes as it were, must a been the Bar-S herd of cattle.
As soon as they were clear of the trees Donald headed directly southwest, for that was the direction taken by the stampeded herd.
For some time longer the drive went on, and they must have covered more than half of the territory over which the stampeded cattle had chased on the preceding night.
The bunch of ponies smelt his blood and stampeded promiscuous.
The shock stampeded them, but Curly swerved clear of their rush, rolled back into the saddle, raced abreast, and shot both horses down.
Anyways, they stampeded with their riders, and I reckon those warriors never stopped to look back until they had thrown themselves safe beyond the railroad.
As soon as they were clear we handed in lead to the crowd, stampeded them, and sprinkled their tails.
Only--will you let me have Black Star now an' ride him over there an' head off them fellers who stampeded the herd?
She had heard of millingstampeded cattle, and knew it was a feat accomplished by only the most daring riders.
The stampeded teams were flying wildly over the prairie, in spite of every effort of the teamsters to control them.
When the stampeded teams came in, it was found that no other person was injured, nor any damage done.
Time and again he and his new Texas foreman, Jed Parker, had followed the trail of a stampeded bunch of twenty or thirty, followed them on down through the Soda Springs Valley to the cut drift fences, there to abandon them.
He satisfactorily whipped four dogs, pursued two cats up a tree, upset the Dutch oven and the rest of the soda biscuits, stampeded the horses, and raised a cloud of dust adequate to represent the smoke of battle.
But the cattle had been stampeded among the buffalo and it was impossible to recover a single head.
They've shot the herders and stampeded the cattle!
They stood still for one paralysed instant, and then, stamping frantically, the whole community stampeded in every direction.
The rats rallied their forces in alarm, and the rabbits stampeded anew, for both knew that their most deadly enemy was hunting through the warren.
But Belton wasn't to be stampeded into the over-hasty action of the amateur.
Gaily cloaked and slippered women stampeded away as though they were made of sugar and they and their gracious curves might melt into nothing at the first touch of water.
The moon was shining brightly, and we had a splendid chance to have stampeded their stock, but I did not think it best from the fact that it would put them on their guard, which would be to the detriment of the cavalry when they should arrive.
The wagon-master informed me that he had lost about one-third of the oxen, which had stampeded and ran off in a storm; also my two saddle horses, and his one and only saddle horse had gone with the cattle.
Five tourists had ridden up in the sunshine to enjoy the heights, and the suddenness and fierceness of the storm had thrown them into a panic and stampeded their horses.
Although up to this time the animals had not shown that they cared a straw for the two beings who stood so near and were looking at them with loaded guns in their hands, yet they were liable to become stampeded at any moment.
My pen is too weak to describe the heart-rending scene that followed the fearful rushing of the wild, stampeded cattle.
On Elm Creek, while on the move, we were charged by a stampeded herd of buffalo, estimated at three thousand head.
The horse plunged, throwing him ten feet, and snorting in terror, stampeded with the rest of the bunch and disappeared among the pines.
At a touch, Kentuck closed in, and the buffalo, seeing him, stampeded into the heaving roll so well known to the hunter.
