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My friend called to the warrior: "Hey, Tom! Come here a minute." The Indian came, and the doctor continued, "When do you hold the horse-races, Thomas?" "To-morrow, at four o'clock, unless it rains," said the fellow. He spoke in an odd, halting dialect, but his words were perfectly understandable. "Are you going to ride?" "No; my race-horse is sick."
"I can get you on board, if you are in time." Mr. Belcher ran to his state-room, seized his valise, and was soon again on deck. The pilot-boat was within ten rods of the steamer, curving in gracefully toward the monster, and running like a race-horse. The Captain had a bundle of papers in his hand. He held them while Mr.
At the cry of "Help, help! the Lady Eveline is murdered!" the seeming statue, starting at once into active exertion, sped with the swiftness of a race-horse to the brink of the moat, and was about to cross it, opposite to the spot where Rose stood at the open casement, urging him to speed by voice and gesture.
Something perhaps it was that consciousness which horses have of the approach of other beings, scent, hearing, or a sense of their own which we can not understand made the chestnut race-horse lift his head and nicker. One of the men rose silently to a sitting posture, and reached for his rifle.
This was like striking their flag. The pursuer came on like a race-horse. It launched a fresh Greek fire, which fell within twenty paces of the little canoe, and threw a light upon them as white as sunshine. "At the first sign of resistance," cried the commander of the balancelle, "fire!" The soldiers brought their muskets to the present. "Did we not say we surrendered?" said Yves.
For the moment they gazed at each other, those lovers of California's long-ago, while the very atmosphere quivering between them seemed a palpable barrier. Elena flung out her arms with a sudden passionate gesture; he gave a hoarse cry, and paced up and down like a race-horse curbed with a Spanish bit. How to have one last word with her?
Toby wanted to have nothing more to do with a tricky race-horse than Father Orin wished to have to do with a shady adventurer. Tommy Dye looked at them both with a grin. "I saw you just now you and the new doctor a-toting them there youngsters."
To this untutored taste the most beautiful horse seems to be a form which has suffered less radical alteration than the race-horse under the breeder's selective development of the animal.
Australasia, and Polynesia. It was the firing that did it. The great heart of the British public was beating furiously on account of the performance of a notorious race-horse, and had not a throb to waste on distant accidents; but somewhere deep in the hull of the ship of State there is machinery which more or less accurately takes charge of foreign affairs.
This is the probable explanation of the fact that an athlete or a race-horse trained to the point of highest efficiency can reach his maximum record but once in his life. Under certain conditions, however, it is possible that, though some chromatin is forever lost, the remainder may be so remarkably developed that for a time at least it will compensate for that which is gone. Hemorrhage.
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