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But the little girl held the short bridle-reins tight and did not let the mare get her nose to the ground lest they slip over her head and out of reach. The dogs were stretched lazily on some soft badger mounds not far away. The St.
At noon on the 20th of December, after a warm and rainy morning, the ground being covered with mud and slush, the temperature fell instantly forty degrees. A man riding into Springfield for a marriage license says a roaring and crackling wind came upon him and the rain-drops dripping from his bridle-reins and beard changed in a second into jingling icicles.
Buck dropped his bridle-reins and moved forward. For an instant McCabe sat motionless; then he swung himself out of the saddle. "If it's anythin' I can help about " he began, awkwardly, yet ingratiatingly. "Thank you very much, Slim, but it isn't," the girl answered quietly. "We ain't got much time," protested McCabe uneasily. "We jest came back to get them tools Buck forgot.
Then the two knights drew up, one on each side of their aged king; and all three fastened their bridle-reins together and rode into the fray. 'The king, says the old story-teller, 'struck one blow with his sword; yea, and more than four; and fought right valiantly'; until he and his knights disappeared under the heaving, struggling mass of men, never to rise again.
When they were mounted on the ponies, I gave the bridle-reins of the bay horse whose size and strength were necessary for my extra weight to Edith Metford, and asked her to wait for me until I announced Brande's probable failure to the people, and advised a sauve qui peut.
"You're new here," commented the doctor, untying his bridle-reins. "Just came yesterday," answered Stratton. "Friend of Lynch?" Buck's lips twitched. "Not exactly," he shrugged. "Miss Thorne hired me while he was in Paloma. I got a notion he was rather peevish about it. Reckon he prefers to pick his own hands." As the doctor swung into the saddle, his face momentarily lightened.
The animal was grazing in the neighborhood of Pine Glen. The saddle and the horse's sides were stained with dirt, as if the animal had fallen. The bridle-reins had been broken. The horse might have rolled on the saddle; he might have stepped on the bridle-reins; he might have fallen and left his rider lying senseless.
Black brows and lashes shaded clear gray eyes the softest gray, without the least tint of green in them such eyes as Quaker maidens ought to have under their gray bonnets. Little rose colored flushes kept coming and going in her cheeks as she talked. All at once I thought of Queen Guinevere, As she fled fast thro' sun and shade, With jingling bridle-reins. "Mr.
Miss Penelope, reaching up, seized the bridle-reins and held on by main force with one hand while she rummaged in her out pocket with the other. "There! here are three bits every cent I've got with me," she said indignantly, shoving it in his hand. "Well, Peter Cartwright, if your mother could know "
Invitations were sent out to a large party at Riversley, and Janet came with all my gifts on her dress or in her pockets. The squire led the company to the gates of his stables; the gates opened, and a beautiful pony, with a side-saddle on, was trotted forth, amid cries of admiration. Then the squire put the bridle-reins in my hands, bidding me present it myself. I asked the name of the person.
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