shore-footed

Updated: May 2, 2025

Don't hold on to my neck so tight this here paint hoss ain't any too shore-footed, let me tell ye. He's liable to dump us both off if we don't watch out." Two minutes of waiting brought a tired "paint" pony single-footing into camp. A gangling youth of twenty lolled in the saddle. Of the "Muriel" whom he had been addressing, nothing was to be seen. "Hi, fellows!" shouted the rider cheerfully.

O. Henry - Sixes and Sevens

Now ther's Tom-Jeff, braggin' how he'll be the one to kill the pappy o' Nan's chillern: he's a-ridin' a mighty shore-footed hawss, but hit do look like he'd be skeered the Lord might take him at his word and make that hawss stumble. Hit do, for a fact!"

Francis Lynde - The Quickening