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It struck the man a glancing blow on the head, felling him as if he had been shot, and then Harry, thinking quickly, acted with equal quickness. He reined in his horse with such suddenness that he nearly shot from the saddle. Then he leaped down, seized the shotgun from under the hands of the fallen man, sprang on his horse and was away again, sending back a cry of defiance.
Orrin who, as he had ceased speaking, had suddenly reined in his panting horse, now gave a shout and shot forward, and I, hardly knowing what to fear or expect, followed him as fast as my evidently weary animal would carry me, and thus bounding along with but a few paces between us, we cleared the woods and came out into the open fields beyond.
And beyond the last rise lay the land of wonders, George's country. "Hark!" Honoria reined up. "Isn't that the cuckoo?" Taffy listened. Yes, somewhere among the hillocks seaward its note was dinning. "Count!" "Cuckoo, cherry-tree, Be a good bird and tell to me How many years before I die?" "Ninety-six!" Taffy announced. "Ninety-two," said Honoria, "but we won't quarrel about it.
He looked wonderingly at her flushed face, with the freshness of the morning in it; her brilliant eyes, from which flashed a spirit that nothing seemed to daunt; the sudden compression of her lips, as with power and inimitable grace she reined in her chafing steed.
As the Chief of the Hundred Valleys passed the troop at the head of which was my father Joel, he reined in his horse and cried: "Friend Joel, when I was your guest, you asked my name. I answered that I was called Soldier so long as our old Gaul should be under the oppressor's scourge.
Suddenly, there was a nodding of heads, as of some policy decided; they threw themselves upon their steeds, and galloped off toward Michie's. As I reined at Michie's porch, at ten o'clock, the bridges behind me were blown up, with a flare that seemed a blazing of the Northern Lights. The family were sitting upon the porch, and Mrs.
A cowboy, searching for lost mavericks, rode slowly to the top of a low sand dune, reined up his pony, and sat silent in the midst of this solemn spectacle. He was not emotional. He was looking for calves, and "sore" at not finding them, and hungry, and far from the X bar O; and night was coming on. But he sat still in his saddle, removed his flopping sombrero, and looked toward the east.
One may seem to have made mistakes, and perhaps for a long while. But in the end one would be proved not to have made them." And the girl's implicit faith took hold upon the man and tortured him, so that he could no longer keep silence. "Ethne," he cried, "you don't know " But at that moment Ethne reined in her horse, laughed, and pointed with her whip.
"What has happened to me, and is he learning quickly or growing strangely timid?" she asked herself. Thurston almost rode over Julius Savine near the railroad depot, and reined in his horse to say: "I have my answer, sir, but do not feel beaten yet.
"Then, what makes you dodge your head?" "It is because I am not accustomed like your Majesty to hearing all this uproar." "One should accustom himself to everything. Fear nothing; keep on." But the guide, more dead than alive, reined in his horse, and trembled in every limb. "Come, come; I see you are really afraid. Go behind me."
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