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Updated: May 15, 2025
I sometimes think that the church does for Canada what music does for continental nations, what dollar-chasing and amusement do for the American nation opens that great emotional outlet for the play of spiritual powers and idealization, which we must all have if we would rise above the gin-horse haltered to the wheel of toil.
By this the eyes of the listeners were agape, M. Radisson not budging a pace to go ashore, the governor scarce courting rebuff in sight of his soldiers. "Radisson," says M. de la Barre, motioning his soldiers back and following to our captain's cabin, "a fellow was haltered and whipped for disrespect to the bishop yesterday!"
He escapes but for a few minutes from one merciless enemy to fall into the hands of another the shouting boat-men surround their victim throw cords round his majestic antlers he is haltered and dragged to shore; while the big tears roll down his face, and his heaving sides and panting flanks speak his agonies, the keen searching knife drinks his blood, and savages exult at his expiring groan."
We'll have to chase him." "Mescal, has Bolly been good since Silvermane came down?" "No, she hasn't," declared Mescal, and told of the circumstance. "Bolly's all right," said Billy Naab. "Any mustang will do that. Keep her belled and hobbled." "Silvermane would care a lot about that, if he wanted Bolly, wouldn't he?" queried Dave in quiet scorn. "Keep her roped and haltered, I say."
"The ship being in the centre between the two lines of the fleet, the boat was soon alongside, and the man was speedily placed on the cathead and haltered. A few awful minutes of universal silence followed, which was at last broken by the watch bells of the fleet striking eight o'clock.
So Sahim mounted forthright and rode till he espied goods being plundered and horses haltered and women carried off and children crying out.
Stepping back, he gripped the handle of the lever-bar, and with all his strength jerked it toward him. A square in the floor opened as the trap was flapped back upon its hinges, and through the opening the haltered form shot straight downward to bring up with a great jerk, and after that to dangle like a plumb-bob on a string.
Other shouts arose above the distant crash of the battering-ram; other figures advanced, and in the patter of stray shots a horse screamed and fell kicking among his terrorized fellows, but Thode had twitched free the knot which haltered his mount and was off and away up the narrow street, in a thunder of hoof-beats which outran the fusillade and pounded steadily on into the silence of the coming dawn.
"He was haltered in the corral." "Send Yaqui to find the hoss's trail, an' let's figger," said Ladd. "Shore this 's no raider job." In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.
When Shefford awoke next morning and sat up on his bed of pinyon boughs the dawn had broken cold with a ruddy gold brightness under the trees. Nas Ta Bega and Lassiter were busy around a camp-fire; the mustangs were haltered near by; Jane Withersteen combed out her long, tangled tresses with a crude wooden comb; and Fay Larkin was not in sight.
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