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Updated: June 12, 2025
Then Nick Gutierrez mounted a bucking horse, and actually rolled and lighted a cigarette while the animal bucked with all his might. 'See that cunning, cunning muchachita, mamma! cried Bell; for, as they stopped at the top of the hill to let the horses breathe, one of the little Mexican children ran after them, holding out a handful of glowing yellow poppies.
After supper the farmer and his wife drove to Bramley to say good-by to their friends, but the two chums decided to stay at home. Eager to be on their way, it seemed to Larry and Tom that the hours never passed so slowly. They tried to read, but in place of the print on the pages pictures of cowboys and bucking bronchos danced before their eyes, and they soon shut their books.
The rising wind drove the rain in our faces with stinging force, and we were soon wet as drowned rats. The white-capped seas raced alongside, and the "Yankee" heaved and tossed like a bucking bronco. The lookouts at the masthead swayed forward and back, to and fro, dizzily, and the officer of the deck on the bridge had difficulty in keeping his feet.
'Is it as bad as all that? he says. 'See that other five and raise you twenty. 'You're too strong for me Red, says the gent that was bucking him and lays down to that pair of deuces! I read the letter: "'Dear Mr. Perris, "'I know you don't like to hire out. But this is a job where you won't have a boss.
A clergyman at one of the rear tables quietly remarked, "Washout," and Saterlee, who had not forgotten the days when he had learned to fall from a bucking bronco, relaxed his great muscles and swore roundly, sonorously, and at great length. The car came to rest at the bottom of the embankment, less on its side than on its top. For a moment or so it seemed all was perfectly quiet.
His fringed leggings were braced straight out in the stirrups as if he anticipated his broncho transforming the concave into the convex, known in the vernacular as "bucking." "Mad as a hatter," said Grant, inferring the joke was on Pierre. "Let him be! Let him be! He'll get over it! He's working up his rhymes for the feast after the buffalo hunt."
The boat was pitching so furiously, that he could only use one hand, because it was necessary for him to grasp some hold, lest he be tossed overboard, as a bucking bronco hurls an unsuspecting rider from the saddle by a quick upward movement. Hardly had they secured possession of the two long and stout poles than the end of the island hove in sight.
The Puncher leaped, as all destroyers do the second day they are loosed. She sliced through the storm straight for the coral beach beyond the bar, shaking her graceful shoulders free of the sticky spray reeling, rolling, thugging, kicking, bucking through the welter to where quiet water waited and the ever-lasting, utterly unrighteous stink of sun-baked Arab beaches.
I say the broncho was not so ver' bad, and I tell him try the paces. I whisper soft, and the broncho stand like a lamb. He mount, and sneer, and grin at the high pommel, and start. For a minute it was pretty; and then I give a little soft call, and in a minute there was the broncho bucking doubling like a hoop, and dropping same as lead.
Roger began refitting their space helmets with the dark glass that would shield them from the strong rays of the enlarging sun. "Ever been outside in the direct path of the sun with no protection, Roger?" asked Astro. "No," replied Roger. "Have you?" "Once," said Astro softly. "On the second moon of Mars, Phobos. I was bucking rockets on the old chemical burners.
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