ecartant

Updated: May 4, 2025

One him would give two or three hundred yards at the departure, then one him passed without pain; but never at the last she not fail of herself echauffer, of herself exasperate, and she arrives herself ecartant, se defendant, her legs greles in the air before the obstacles, sometimes them elevating and making with this more of dust than any horse, more of noise above with his eternumens and reniflemens crac! she arrives then always first by one head, as just as one can it measure.

Mark Twain - Sketches New and Old, Part 1.

One him would give two or three hundred yards at the departure, then one him passed without pain; but never at the last she not fail of herself echauffer, of herself exasperate, and she arrives herself ecartant, se defendant, her legs greles in the air before the obstacles, sometimes them elevating and making with this more of dust than any horse, more of noise above with his eternumens and reniflemens crac! she arrives then always first by one head, as just as one can it measure.

Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)