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So they returned to King Sulayman and acquainted him with this; whereupon King Shahriman ordered largesse of money and vivers to the troops of King Sulayman Shah; and, when they had conveyed all he had commanded, he bade be brought out an hundred coursers and an hundred dromedaries and an hundred white slaves and an hundred concubines and an hundred black slaves and an hundred female slaves; all of which he forwarded to the King as a present.
Theirs the leek and the garlic; his to sit at the sumptuous feast. Why should he dwell on the irksomeness of bondage, he for whom the chariots waited, who might at will bestride the swift coursers of the Delta, or be borne on the bosom of the river with oars that beat time to songs?
But a minute since, and it had been trundling along like a lame cow; and now it was off as though drawn by Apollo's coursers. There is no telling what a man can do, until you frighten him! A hundred yards farther on the cart whipped out of the high-road into a lane embowered with leafless trees, and became lost to view.
While the contest continues doubtful, they hover round as spectators, ready, should the tide turn against them, to spur on their coursers to a rapid flight; but if they see their friends victorious, and the enemy turning their backs, they come forward and display no small vigour in pursuit and plunder.
The courses all are past the wheels erect All safe when as the hurrying coursers round The fatal pillar dash'd, the wretched boy Slackened the left rein; on the column's edge Crash'd the frail axle headlong from the car, Caught and all meshed within the reins he fell; And masterless, the mad steeds raged along! Loud from that mighty multitude arose A shriek a shout!
Fear'd, O rowers, those gallants their beauty to spoil When they sat on your benches, and shared in your toil! When with laughter they row'd to your cry "Hippopai," "On, ye coursers of wood, for the palm wreath, away!" Did those dainty youths ask you to store in your holds Or a cask from their crypt or a lamb from their folds?
Embossed housings and "tapadero," hid the symmetry of their deer-like coursers. Pliant rawhide lassos coiled on saddle horns, gay serapes tied behind each rider, and vicious machetes girded on thigh, these sons of the West were the pride of the Pacific. Not one of them would be dismayed at a seven days' ride to Los Angeles.
'All the haunts of Attic ground, Where the matchless coursers bound, Boast not, through their realms of bliss, Other spot so fair as this.
Upon Venus's arrival, great admiration was expressed at her symmetry and beauty; the grayness incident to her age having fallen upon her, as it sometimes does upon black greyhounds, in the form of small white spots, so that she appeared as if originally what the coursers call "ticked."
But, whether hot blood, or inexperience in things, exasperates you, wild as coursers with unsubdued neck, in whatever place you live, too worthy to break the fraternal bond, a devoted heifer is feeding against your return. He declares his accomplishments; and, after proposing the thought of death, converts it into an occasion of pleasantry.
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