United States or Equatorial Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'Ah, ye brute! repeated he, giving him a hearty cropper as he put up his head after trying to kick him off. 'Thank you! exclaimed Miss Glitters, cantering up; adding, 'you cleared the way nicely for me. Nicely he had cleared it for them all; and the pent-up tide of equestrianism now poured over the park like the flood of an irrigated water meadow.
A dozen tethered horses and mules grazed around the encampment, while a number of archers lounged about: some shooting at marks, while others built up great wooden fires in the open, and hung their cooking kettles above them. At the sight of their returning comrades there was a shout of welcome, and a horseman, who had been exercising his charger behind the camp, came cantering down to them.
Some time had passed, when Sally cried out that she heard voices, and, running out, she saw three people on horseback cantering up to the hut. They were Mr Harlow and his two sisters. They had come over about the school. They were very sorry to hear that the children were missing. Mr Harlow said that he would go off at once to look for them.
He was very quiet and thoughtful all evening. Before I fell asleep he told me that on Monday the two of us would team in to Buckhorn and get a wagon-load of supplies. Saturday the Twenty-eighth I have got my cayuse. Dinky-Dunk meant him for a surprise, but the shyest and reddest-headed cowboy that ever sat in a saddle came cantering along the trail, and I saw him first.
It was Warrington, cantering up from behind a minute or so later, who changed the color of the earth and sky. "Did you recognize him, sir?" "Whom?" "Ranjoor Singh!" "No! Where?" "Not the bullock-man who blocked the road, but the man who ran out from behind the gate and straightened things out again. That man was Ranjoor Singh in mufti!" "What makes you think so?" "I recognized him.
But he was running pretty fast, though to his misery he heard the dull thud, thud of the cantering horses grow fainter and fainter till it seemed to die right away. "Sim's let them pass him," he groaned piteously. "No! No! No!" he literally yelled. "They are coming back! Saint Simon's turned them, and it will be my chance after all."
Soon afterwards, from the highest point of the Convent Hill, looking south-west over the Maritzburg road by Bluebank, I saw several hundred Boers cantering in two streams that met and passed in opposite directions. They were apparently on the move between Colenso and Van Reenen's Pass; perhaps their movements implied visits to lovers, and a pleasant Sunday.
He glanced at Elise Durwent, and saw that her eyes were sparkling like diamonds, and that the self-conscious bay was shaking his head and cantering so lightly that he seemed to be borne on the wings of the wind. Selwyn wished that he were a sculptor that he might make her image in bronze: he would call it 'Recalcitrant Autumn. He even felt that he could burst into poetry. He wished
And cantering on they came to Lowlight when the Milky Way appeared. And there were Dona Mirana and Serafina in the hall to greet them as they entered the door. "What news?" they asked. But Rodriguez hung back; he had no news to give.
Romfrey named some of the processes by which they are relieved of brain-flightiness, adding philosophically, 'This way or that. His quick ear caught a sound of hoofs cantering down the avenue on the Northern front of the house. He consulted his watch. 'Ten minutes to eight. Say a quarter-past for dinner. They're here, colonel. Mr. Romfrey met Nevil returning from the stables.
Word Of The Day