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Jem and I used to sit, one behind the other, on his broad back, when our little legs could barely straddle across, and to "grip" with our knees in orthodox fashion was a matter of principle, but impossible in practice. Laddie's pace was always discreet, however, and I do not think we should have found a saddle any improvement, even as to safety, upon his warm, satin-smooth back.
She had her rules even for the width of petticoats, that the Queens and Princesses might have no temptation to straddle over a rivulet, or crossing, of unroyal size.
Louis and New Orleans, and managing to be despoiled of all their hard-earned money during their brief sojourn in "God's country;" but the greater number straddle their wiry little ponies and ride back through the Nation to Texas.
He was so tall that he could straddle the inlet, and he used to stand that way every morning and wait for the whales to pass beneath him. As soon as one came along he used to scoop it up just as easily as other men scoop up a minnow. And he ate the whole whale just as other men eat a small fish.
And with that he threw a flaming dart at his breast. In the cut he throws a dart with either hand, belching pointed flames out of his mouth, spreading his broad vans, and straddling the while across the path, as only a fiend can straddle who has just sworn by his infernal den. The defence will not be long against such vice, such flames, such red-hot nether energy.
There ain't no pumps now it's all fountain! Pump water is full of animalculæ, and straddle bugs don't exist in pond water of course not. Nobody ever see young pollywogs and snapping turtles floating down stream in fly-time. Certainly not! I'm getting old of course I am; that's the talk! I've been in office too long.
"Well," she asked, "are you going to straddle or fight?" How like a woman, how like a child, how typical of the outsider's shallow view of any struggle! As if all one had to do was stand up and fight! Mere fighting that was easy; but to fight to the last ditch only to find yourself beaten! That gave a fellow pause about bucking the challenge of everyday life.
Seems to me y'u had ought to take that voice into grand opera. The way y'u straddle them high notes is a caution for fair. What was it y'u was singing? Sounded like 'Would I were far from here, love." "Y'u go to hell," choked Reddy, rushing past him from the bunkhouse. McWilliams looked round innocently. "I judge some of y'u boys must a-been teasing Reddy from his manner.
I should have thought it no robbery to take them again by force, could I have done it without any danger of being detected; but, as I could have no such opportunity, I resolved to work by finesse, and go immediately to the lodgings of Straddle, where I was so fortunate as to find him.
He used to ride splendid, at full straddle, with three horses under him one foot, you know, sir, being on the outer horse's back, and one foot on the inner. Him and Jubber made it out together that he was to act a wild man, flying for his life across some desert, with his only child, and poor little Mary was to be the child.
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