lash-out

Updated: May 27, 2025

Then Madelon placed her foot in the stirrup, and was in the saddle, pulling the bit hard against the jaw, and the mare shot out of the barn with a fierce lash-out of her heels and an upheaval of her gaunt roan flanks that threatened to dash the girl's head against the lintel of the door. But Madelon knew with what she had to do, and she bent low in the saddle and passed out in safety.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Madelon: A Novel