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"Oh, nothing except that Mademoiselle has just missed killing my husband with that wicked animal of hers!" cried the Maegera, in a fury. "Mademoiselle might turn the accusation against him," Madame de Nointel said, with some malice. "It was he who frightened her horse." The fiery animal, with distended veins and quivering nostrils, snorted violently, cavorted sidewise, and tried to run.
One of the team, however, a heavy, powerful bay, lagged continually, at times almost stopping. The cultivator slid sidewise, and the blades tore the corn out by the roots. The boy jerked the reins, slapping them over the horse's back. "Get along there, Jim!" he called. Jim pulled evenly for a moment, then lagged again.
Then a dim white group of moving forms emerges from the pines of the mountains wild horses with leader scenting the air for foe, coming out for the night run to the drinking pools. Or your horses give a little sidewise jump from the trail, and you see a coyote loping along abreast not a gun-shot away.
Fran tilted her head sidewise, and the glance of her eyes proved irresistible. "But tell me about Mr. Gregory," she pleaded, "and don't mind my ways. Ever since mother died, I've found nothing in this world but love that was for somebody else, and trouble that was for me." The pathetic cadence of the slender-throated tones moved Abbott more than he cared to show.
At last the landlord said, "Well, he aint so fast as I supposed." "He's not so fast a horse as some," answered Bartley. The landlord leaned over sidewise for an inspection of the colt's action forward. "Haint never thought he had a splint on that forward off leg?" "A splint? Perhaps he has a splint." They returned to the hotel and both alighted.
Withers turned sidewise in his saddle and let his mustang pick the way. "Another time we'll go up round the base of the mountain, where you can look down on the grandest scene in the world," said he. "Two hundred miles of wind-worn rock, all smooth and bare, without a single straight line canyon, caves, bridges the most wonderful country in the world! Even the Indians haven't explored it.
She was too refined a woman to mention either end of a gun by name. "I saw the front end." "He didn't aim it at you, or at anything, did he?" "No yes he aimed it sidewise." "Sideways! Now, mother, there I draw the line! No man shall come around here aiming his gun sideways; endangering the throngs of casual bystanders!" "Ah!
Then he edged sidewise to a great stump, hid himself among the roots, and stood stock-still, a beautiful picture of innocence and curiosity, framed in the rough brown roots of the spruce stump. It was his first teaching to hide and be still. Just as he needed it most, he had forgotten absolutely the second lesson. We watched each other full five minutes without moving an eyelash.
"No, no," Rojanow said, hastily, but he turned his face sidewise, so that it lay in the shadow. "All the papers mention 'Arivana, and each strives to outdo his neighbor in writing complimentary things about me. You know I am of an uncertain temper, and am often cast down, without being able to give reason for my depression."
Cake froze to cake, until at last the boat was the centre of a cake seventy-five feet in diameter. Sometimes they floated sidewise, sometimes stern-first, while gravity tore asunder the forming fetters in the moving mass, only to be manacled by faster-forming ones. While the hours passed, Shorty stoked the stove, cooked meals, and chanted his war song.
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