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But, my lord, if you will take a farm horse from his plough you cannot expect from him that he should prance upon the green." "It is because I think that there should be more mixing between what you call plough horses and animals used simply for play, that I have been so proud to make you welcome here. I hope it may not be by many the last time that you will act as a living dictionary for me.
"No one else has ever said that to me only the audiences have appeared to care and appreciate. Albrecht and all those others have scarcely offered me a word of encouragement." "Albrecht and the others are asses," ejaculated Winston, with sudden indignation. "They imagine they are actors because they prance and bellow on a stage, and they sneer at any one who is not in their class.
Cursed be the Savages that prance in nakedness! 'Amen, quo' Jobson, 'but where I used to lie Was neither shirt nor pantaloons to catch my brethren by: 'But a well-wheel slowly creaking, going round, going round, By a water-channel leaking over drowned, warm ground Parrots very busy in the trellised pepper-vine And a high sun over Asia shouting: "Rise and shine!"
The horses were frightened by the splash and began to prance, and the son ran to their heads, beside himself with fear. The old man came to the top and screamed, 'Help! help! and the son answered, fairly jumping up and down in his anguish of mind over his poor old father's fate, 'Oh, help, somebody! Somebody come and help! I can't leave my horses!" He stopped.
I'm not going to do any harm here," he exclaimed. Whether in surprise at the boy's unusual procedure in facing him most callers at the ranch either hastened away or yelled to Ford to call off his dog or what, the beast hesitated before his last leap that would have brought him on top of Bob and then, beginning to prance playfully, he approached fawningly. "Good boy! That's the way.
Leviculus was now hopeless and disconsolate, till one Sunday he saw a lady in the Mall, whom her dress declared a widow, and whom, by the jolting prance of her gait, and the broad resplendence of her countenance, he guessed to have lately buried some prosperous citizen.
Figs. 2 and 3. From Muybridge's instantaneous photograph of a fox-terrier, showing the probable origin of the pose of the "flying gallop" transferred from the dog to other animals by the Mycenæans. The stretched-leg prance used to represent the gallop by Carle Vernet in 1760. The stretched-leg prance used by early Egyptian artists. Flying Gallop. Flying Gallop. Galloping Griffon. Flying Gallop.
It took two meetings for us to discover what had clogged up the atmosphere and taken the prance out of things. Then we tumbled. The Payleys and Singers were educating us. They were fitting us to live in the rarified upper altitudes of refinement and to mingle with rank without stepping all over its feet.
He picked up the rope, coiled it deftly and tied it to the saddle and now, relieved of the idea that he was noosed, the pony began to lift his feet and prance, softly, like a swift runner on the mark.
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