Later still, he became interested in the development of thoroughbred cattle and horses, but continued to help his father-in-law in the directing of his ranch.
The stamp varied from nearly thoroughbredto Clydesdale and Percheron stud-horses, with a fair number of mares and foals.
Our sympathies are with the little black; half a hand shorter than his antagonist, and more like a trotting-horse than the tall, thoroughbred bay.
He has 300 thoroughbred Berkshire pigs, besides some wonderful milch cows and a fine Jersey bull.
Ricardo noticed at length that he was crying; as the Ranger knelt beside the deadthoroughbred the old Mexican whispered to his son: "Valgame Dios!
When they came to the corrals, an intricate series of pens and chutes at the rear of the outbuildings, Law beheld two thoroughbredhorses standing at the hitching-rail.
The horse he rode was one of a kind seldom seen on the ranges: a thoroughbred with slender legs and sensitive ears.
Each day of the seven the thoroughbred with the slender legs and the tiny sensitive ears had stood in the barren dooryard before Elizabeth Landor's home.
On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon.
Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thinthoroughbred horse with sunken sides.
He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth.
Cal looked on wonderingly, for at the other end of the rope sat a buckskin-clad cow-puncher mounted on a thoroughbred cow-pony.
He saw Beatrice's face by the firelight and her narrow thoroughbred figure in a dark dress.
In what other way can thoroughbred people face an enemy?
He rode out of the town on a thoroughbred steed, he wore soft, bright-coloured garments adorned with gold and jewels, his scimitar at his side, and waving feathers of rare birds in his hat.
I looked to Jack for explanation, but if that thoroughbred knew where the major had permanently put the last batch of his furniture, he, too, gave no outward sign.
The General followed his fine thoroughbred with longing eyes, and was more than astonished to find in what stables they kept these valuable and delicate animals.
They spoke volumes for the country where a man has to sear a thoroughbred with a hot iron, to ensure his keeping possession.
A thoroughbred greyhound will hunt with no one but his master.
A thoroughbred horse is one that has three things long, three things short, three things broad, and three things clean.
It will be seen, as I had previously indicated in tracing the outline of a thoroughbred horse as sketched by the Arabs, that they esteem it of consequence that in his form he should borrow certain details from other animals.
My uncle has thoroughbred mares, whose distant sires Are counted in our tribes since the ancient times, Gentle and timid as daughters of the Guebla[7].
According, however, to the traditions of our ancestors the thoroughbred is still better known by its moral characteristics than its physical peculiarities.
Evil spirits enter not into a tent where there is a thoroughbred horse.
A thoroughbredgreyhound picks out the finest animal of the herd, and springs forward.
A thoroughbred horse (hôor)[22] may be known by yet other signs.
I have only one more word to say on the portrait of the thoroughbred horse sketched by Abd-el-Kader.
To our taste, the less covered a thoroughbred horse may be, the better are the beauty and elegance of his form displayed.
A thoroughbred slougui will neither eat nor drink from a dirty vessel, and refuses milk in which the hand has been dipped.
Not exactly strike him, I think, but there are many ways of making a high-strung, thoroughbred horse's life a torture.
His coat was now as sleek as satin, his old body round and plump, his manners those of a thoroughly spoiled thoroughbred horse.
Her graceful figure swayed easily in the saddle as she steadied her impatient horse--an animal of high quality, and, unknown to Lance, as was also the thoroughbred she was leading.
His tall erect figure and manege horsemanship were well displayed on the handsome roan thoroughbred which he rode as a charger.
Vronsky had put his name down, bought a thoroughbred English mare, and in spite of his love affair, he was looking forward to the races with intense, though reserved, excitement.
Prince Kuzovlev sat with a white face on his thoroughbred mare from the Grabovsky stud, while an English groom led her by the bridle.
In those days he went for rest and consolation to his estates, for he took great pleasure in his thoroughbred swine.
Our thoroughbred actors are all too light of bone, too delicate of motion, and our actresses bred for dainty beauty would hardly caste well for those great hulking round-faced labour mothers.
One afternoon, Jack Bracy drove up to the veranda of the Crustacean with a smart buggy and spirited thoroughbred for Miss Circe's especial driving, and his own saddle-horse on which he was to accompany her.
The thoroughbred started, gave a sickening plunge forward, and was off!
XXVI D'ri came soon with horses, one the black thoroughbred of Louise which had brought her on this errand.
As to my own, a tall chestnut thoroughbred that Mr. Parish had brought over from England, I never saw him in finer fettle.
A regular corps of them stood in front of me, canvassing with all the eager volubility of their craft for the possession of a handsome thoroughbred pony, from which a young officer, in a cavalry undress, was about to dismount.
