So therewithal he turns upon his track, Noting his footsteps, and amid the hushed brake strays aback, Hearkening the horse-hoofs and halloos and calls of following folk.
These strays are for the most part, as far as I have seen, mere waifs of weed and barren drift.
His designs for various ballads of Hayley's, strays of sick verse long since decomposed, were admirable enough to warrant a hope of general admiration.
We meantime will gather up a few strays that even under these circumstances appear worth hiving.
The cloud still hovers overhead, And still the midnight sky is red; As the lost wanderer strays alone To seek the place he called his own, His devious footprints sadly tell How changed the pathways known so well; The scene, how new!
Fly with the leaves that fill the autumn blast Ye imps of Science, whose relentless chains Lock the warm tides within these living veins, Close your dim cavern, while its captive strays Dazzled and giddy in the morning's blaze!
In a big pastoral exodus like the present, it is simply impossible to keep strays out of moving herds.
Under all range customs, strays are recognized as flotsam.
After a change of mounts for the foreman, Dell and the trail boss drifted the strays up the creek.
They're a hit-and-miss lot, like strays always are.
I must be getting doty--that plea was good for a thousandstrays and cripples!
It has always been customary to brand the increase of strays to the range on which they are found, and that will entitle you to all calves born of stray mothers.
Straw would have to meet his herd at the trail crossing that afternoon, which would afford an opportunity to cut out all strays and cripples.
They got gay on my hands last summer, held me down to the straight road brand at delivery, and I'll see to it that there are no strays in my herd this year.
Knowing the value of the range, Forrest had urged the boys to nurse the first contingent of strays up the creek, farther and farther, until they were then ranging within a mile of the grove.
And when the word passed around to cut all strays up the creek, the facility with which the men culled out the alien down to one class and road brand, proved them masters in the craft.
This method affords a refuge to all strays in your possession, and absolves you from any evil intent.
Very early the next morning Dave Carson and Pocus Pete, astride their favorite horses, and carrying with them a substantial lunch, set off after the strays which had been dimly observed the day before up Forked Branch way.
The Bar U ranch can't afford to lose any strays these days," he resumed.
There were more cattle than you led us to expect, and there were more strays than we calculated on.
There had been little firing of late, for the work of branding the strays and other cattle was almost over.
Some of the boys wanted to follow but it looked as though it might storm, and Tubby said we'd better move the bunch while we could, and look after the rustlers and strays later.
If they were up Forked Branch way they'd stand between th' strays and th' cattle comin' down where they could get plenty of water in Rolling River.
There was much to do at the ranch, from rounding up cattle, looking after strays and branding, to making shipments.
I guess we're on th' track of some strays all right.
Then he rode off, collected the strays he was looking for, and made his way back to the ranch.
The Carson outfit needs all it can get, and, as representative of the Carson interests I'll just cut out those strays of ours, Len, and head them the other way.
A New England June These things I remember Of New England June, Like a vivid day-dream In the azure noon, While one haunting figure Strays through every scene, Like the soul of beauty Through her lost demesne.
But rare the traveller, who ever strays to the bluffs bounding Coyote Creek: rarer still, those who have occasion to descend to the bottom-land through which it meanders.
In due time the main herd was turned back on the range; the strayshad been cut out and driven home by the cowboys of their several owners; the calves had been duly branded and sent out on the desert to grow up.
Thus there was one composed entirely of cows and unbranded calves; another of strays from neighbouring ranges; and a third of the steers considered worthy of being made into beef cattle.
You know how of course we all let each other's strays water at our troughs in this country, and send 'em back to their own range at round up.
To borrow five dollars nowadays was a distinct achievement, and his sallow face had taken on the habitual expression of a hungry wolf waiting for strays and weaklings.
And Senor Buck Johnson, or his foreman, Parker, examined them for their condition, noting the increase, remarking the strays from another range.
There were present probably thirty men from the home ranches round about, and twenty representing owners at a distance, here to pick up the strays inevitable to the season's drift.
After the steer cut had been finished, the men representing the neighbouring ranges looked through the herd for strays of their brands.
When one leaves the words of Christ and strays amongst the words of men, it is like a traveller switching off the main line whereon his destination lies and losing himself on a side-track.
Deaf to my orders, she strays about the streets alone and dares to sail her own sampan.
In some special departments elementary psychological conditions operate in a considerable degree--operate to produce not waifs and strays of primitive thought and belief, but whole classes.
Thus Lord Archibald Campbell has published, in the first volume of his Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition, some sixteen or seventeen sagas.
Some one has pulled a piece of the blind to one side, and a fitful gleam of sunlight, that dances in a heartless manner, flickers in and out of the room, nay, even strays in its ghastly mirth across the bed where the poor body lies.
The Micklegate Strays of Knavesmire, Hob Moor, and Scarcroft have been recently acquired by the Corporation.
Around the city are considerable tracts of land known as strays and belonging to the freemen of the city.
They worked their separate ways back toward the bed ground, gathering strays along the way.
Occasional wolf howls were heard back here in the hills, the calls of strays that had drifted down from the north, following the line of the hills and keeping well back from the dangers of the low country.
This little hideling, with its timid obtrusiveness, never straysfar from cultivation.
In fact, the eider, unlike most ducks, is not migratory at any season, and seldom strays far from the spot where it was bred.
A man who strays for love of a woman may sometimes be reclaimed; but the man who strays for love of amusement or love or novelty will never "stay put" for any girl.
Tropical and subtropical America; breeds north to South Carolina, southern Illinois, and Lower California; strays to Massachusetts and Colorado; winters from Gulf States southward.
Western North America, east to the Plains, west to Cascade and Sierra Ranges; breeds from northern New Mexico and northern Arizona north to Alaska strays farther east in winter.
Tropical and subtropical America; breeds only in eastern North America north to southern Illinois and South Carolina, strays to Maine and Wisconsin; winters from southern Florida south to South America.
North America; breeds on Atlantic coast from Florida to North Carolina; in interior north to Manitoba and British Columbia; later strays casually to Newfoundland and Ontario; winters from Gulf States and southern California southward.
Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to southern New Jersey, later strays casually to Maine; winters from Gulf States to South America.
Eastern United States; breeds from Florida north to Connecticut and South Dakota; strays to Maine; winters from Virginia and Lower Mississippi Valley south to Gulf States.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
