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...ar Capernaum I met an officer as I rested under trees along the road. His horse was lathered with sweat and the man was tired; he leaned forward in t... ... fond of his only child, yet so skeptical. Rising nervously, catching his horse’s bridle, he urged me to go to his home. “I can’t wait any longer..... ...don’t seem to understand that my son is dying. Ride to Capernaum. Take my horse. Ride...help my boy. Master, cure him...he VOICES FROM THE PAST ... ...ound me. I had never smelled the death of a person. Taking in the street ruffians and the officials I said, in a loud voice: “Look at her, at her t...

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... wan, I slips outside and into the kyart. Mother av Hivin! but I made that horse walk, an’ we came into the Colonel’s compound as the divil wint throu... ... ha’ scared a hare. I run over to Jungi’s carr’ge an’ tuk up the lousy old horse-blanket on the box, wrapped my head an’ the rest av me in ut, an’ dhr... ...roduced to the man that made ut. ’Tis easier to get colts from a Kibbereen horse-fair into Galway than to take a bad draf’ over ten miles av country. ... ...s taking tay with the Paythans in bucketsfuls. We were a gang av dissolute ruffians, for the blood had caked the dust, an’ the sweat had cut the cake,... ... trap-wheels could be heard across the plain. Major Oldyne, Commanding the Horse Battery, was coming back from a dinner in the Civil Lines; was drivin... ...You might help me then. What ought a man to give his sais in the Hills? My ruffian says eight ru- pees, because everything is so dear. MISS T. Six rup... ...cholera camp? 97 Rudyard Kipling MACKESY. Ask the Committee. CURTISS. You ruffian! Y ou’ll stand me another peg for that. Blayne, what will you take?... ... M. (In a piercing rattle meant to be a whisper.) Kneel, you stiff-necked ruffian! Kneel! PADRE. . . . whose daughters are ye so long as ye do well a... ...isper.) Jack, be very sure of yourself before you marry. I’m an ungrateful ruffian to say 172 Soldiers Three this, but marriage—even as good a marria...

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...dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old B... ...tween decks!” “Were you addressing me, sir?” says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, “I have only one... ... down and routed out of this. Let that suffice.” Soon after, Dr. Livesey’s horse came to the door and he rode away, but the captain held his peace tha... ...he black spot, mind you, it’s my old sea-chest they’re after; you get on a horse—you can, can’t you? Well, then, you get on a horse, and go to—well, y... ...s to give me a loaded pistol lest we were attacked, and to promise to have horses ready saddled in case we were pursued on our return, while one lad w... ...sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet—the tramp of horses galloping. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, ... ...been broken open in quest of the chart. The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round... ...mand a sight, sometimes of me and the doctor and some- times of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in the sand between the fire—which they we...

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...s of ambition. Ten minutes afterwards Villefort reached his hotel, ordered horses to be ready in two hours, and asked to have his breakfast brought to... ...s. The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horse- shoe, and then as readily straightened it. “And will you engage not ... ...yed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at t... ... hut, merely give some or- ders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d’Aix. Chapter 26 The Pont du Gard... ...drew nearer, he would easily have perceived that it consisted of a man and horse, between whom the kindest and most amiable understanding appeared to ... ...e contrary, Teresa, shuddering in every limb, dared not approach the slain ruffian but by degrees, and threw a hesitating glance at the dead body over... ... How do you explain the influence the count evidently possessed over those ruffians?” “My good friend, as in all probability I own my present safety t...

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...be within their grasp, they found themselves surrounded by Turkish troops, horse and foot. The Dorador had revealed the whole scheme 14 Don Quixote t... ...ther secondary quality, a mere acces- sory, nothing more than the stalking-horse under the presentation of which Cervantes shot his philosophy or his ... ...like our latter-day school of humourists, who seem to have revived the old horse-collar method, and try to raise a laugh by some grotesque assumption ... ... And for your pains sore drubbings did you get From many a rascally and ruffian crew. If the fair Dulcinea, your heart’s queen, Be unrelenting i... ...e a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that ... ... name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own,... ...rom mountain to mountain and valley to valley—for, if it were not for some ruffian, or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced t... ...hed the place where I am to show what the might of my arm can do? See what ruffians and villains come out against me; see what monsters oppose me; see...

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... the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose—he denies he ever did the horse injustice—would rather have wanted his own dinner, he says. In this I... ...m as far as the toll-bar, and then made your farewells—it would have saved horse-hire—and your reck- oning, too, at dinner.’ ‘Latimer paid that, sir,’... ...le this cock-a-hoop courage of thine. I fear much that, like a hot-mettled horse, it will carry the owner into some scrape, out of which he will find ... ...us scenery of the Isle of Feroe, in what was, to all ordinary eyes, a mere horse-pond. Besides, did I not once find thee gazing with respect at a liza... ...gh Scottish court, puffing, blowing, and floun- dering, like a clumsy cart-horse in a bog where his efforts to extricate himself only plunged him deep... ...ng hypocrite, and of his retainer, who had so much the air of a determined ruffian, joined to the strong and abominable fume which they snuffed up wit... ... in this opinion when they descended below, where two or three sailors and ruffian-looking fellows awaited their commands. Ewart took the whole direct...

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...ordsworth His Brother’s life, for Land’s and Castle’s sake? “Sir!” the Ruffians said to Hubert, “Deep he lies in Jordan flood.”— ... ...d I chance to espy; I gave a fervent welcome to the sight, And from my Horse I leapt; great joy had I. Upon a leaf the Glow-worm did I lay, To... ... heard it as before. At length I to the Boy call’d out, He stopp’d his horses at the word; 10 But neither cry, nor... ...se like it could be heard. The Boy then smack’d his whip, and fast The horses scamper’d through the rain; And soon I heard upon the blast The ... ...ture as a resting wheel. The Kine are couch’d upon the dewy grass; The Horse alone, seen dimly as I pass, Is up, and cropping yet his later meal...

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...o enrag’d, desire doth lend her force Courageously to pluck him from his horse. Over one arm the lusty courser’s rein, Under her other was the tende... ...he cries; "some favor some remorse!" Away he springs, and hasteth to his horse. But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbors by, A breeding jennet, lu... ...kmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. 14 ... ... strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack Save a proud rider on so proud a back. ... ... full of fear, Jealous of catching, swiftly doth forsake him, With her the horse, and left Adonis there. As they were mad, unto the wood they hie th... ...too full of riot, Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures; The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet, Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with t...

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...ited States of America Dedication Dedicated to the memory of my own golden horse, Sally, who was the inspiration for Sal. Also in memory of... ...ult to dance if I am footsore.” A vision flashed into her mind: a beautiful winged horse, the color of the snow of the highest peak of Olympus. “Pe... ...oment, then the corners of his mouth turned up and he smiled once more. “A winged horse might give away the fact that you are not mortal, don’t you... ...one knew she loved riding across the heavens in her chariot, drawn by her beloved horses, Lampos and Phaithon. Perhaps they were tears of joy for t... ... new day. Terpsichore gazed up to see Helios, Eos’s brother, with his own team of horses: Bronte— Thunder, Steroes—Dazzling, Phlegon—Flaming and Py... ...r and to eat a little more slowly. He did not want to give the impression he was a ruffian— not that she looked the type who was easily perturbed an...

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...corner where the taxicabs lined up along the edge of Washington Square, the horses nickering and chuffing clouds of vapor into air that seemed sudden... ...needed to be driven off the master’s property. “Phhhsh. Can’t make a race horse out of a dairyman’s nag by giving her a silk saddle blanket to wea... ...tairs, for the pot flew into the air, and the rider was unseated. Both mop-horse and wooden sword bumped and racketed down the stairs. The gallant ... ...t to release Ronan, who scampered back up to the landing to retrieve his mop horse. Babbling, he patted Rags’s stringy mane, praising the horse’s va... ...t.” With his back turned toward his grandmother, Ronan signed to his mop horse, “Good boy. Good boy.” Daniel smiled and angled his body between... ...urs, Ivor? Any better than the old one?” “He broke up that gang of young ruffians that was bustin’ windows and overturning ash bins all summer.” ...

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...er of the continent where the most animals were to be had. Until they got the horse. Only then, when they found a way to dominate grazing animals d... ...d they invade their lands. The original Africans never did this; they had no horses. They never learned to domesticate the wild zebra. The animals... ...ue to the clash of cultures or languages? Once Asiatic Mongols started using horses, they became incredibly warlike. So did the North American pla... ...ered. For thousands of years: the most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Century, the superior mobility, spee... ...th Century, the superior mobility, speed and long-range killing power of the horse-archer gave Nomads the power and means to continually expand onto... ...ers. It became acceptable for the poorest, lowest, most ignorant, brutes and ruffians to be as openly greedy as the richest robber Baron. Greed bec...

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...ted as the abode of his father’s friend. The servants who came to take his horse told him he had been expected for two days. He was led into a study, ... ...went to rest. As soon as day dawned, Jean roused her guest, pro- duced his horse, which she had accommodated behind the hallan, and guided him for som... ...a hollow of the moor, sur- rounded by bushes. They instantly seized on his horse’s bridle with many shouts of welcome, exclaiming—(for he was well kno... ...tire just when— The mirth and fun grew fast and furious, and, mounting his horse accordingly, he took a French leave of his entertainers, but without ... ...his man, which was inexpressibly disgust- ing. His manners were those of a ruffian, conscious of the suspicion attending his character, yet aiming to ... ...ce of the law, They had commission to seize all thy fortune.— Here stood a ruffian with a horrid face, Lording it o’er a pile of massy plate, T umbled... ...hat one’s content,” meaning, probably, past resistance or com- plaint. One ruffian was armed with a cutlass, the other with a bludgeon; but as the roa... ...” They met accordingly, with the most murderous threats on the part of the ruffians. They soon found, how- ever, that their near opponent was equally ... ... mut- tered, a mair decent appearance.” At once three or four men, equally ruffians in appearance and dress rushed into the hut. “Meg, ye limb of Sata...

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...stride followed by two short steps, which Produces the effect of a restive horse entering. Misses Captain Gadsby, who is sitting in the shadow of the ... ...o that girl! Hullo! Steady the Buffs! (Aloud.) And do you understand about horses, too? Miss T. A little—not very much. I can’t doctor them, but I kno... ...You might help me then. What ought a man to give his sais in the Hills? My ruffian says eight rupees, because everything is so dear. Miss T . Six rupe... ...in the evenings. CAPT . G. (Aside.) Rheumatism. I thought she came off her horse rather in a bunch. Whew! One lives and learns. (Aloud.) I’m sorry to ... ... the dickens should I know what she prefers? She told me that she doted on horses. (Aloud.) I think it is. Miss T. (Coming out into front veranda.) Oh... ...aken up the curb two links, and V ermillion bates that. (Passes out and to horse’s head.) CAPT. G. Let me do it! Miss. T . No, V ermillion understands... ... letting me go into cholera-camp? MACKESY. Ask the Committee. CURTISS. You ruffian! You’ll stand me another peg for that. Blayne, what will you take? ... .... M. (In a piercing rattle meant to be a whisper.) Kneel, you stiff-necked ruffian! Kneel! PADRE. … whose daughters are ye so long as ye do well and ...

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...t soft, whom have we here?” he said, listening to the trampling of several horses which became then audible. “Never mind whom,” answered Gurth, who ha... ... that loved venerie; A manly man, to be an Abbot able, Full many a daintie horse had he in stable: And whan he rode, men might his bridle hear Gingeli... ... the occasional exhortation and chiding of his companion, the noise of the horsemen’s feet continu- ing to approach, W amba could not be prevented fro... ...urning his head to leer after a cottage maiden who crossed their path. The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the road. Their numbers amounted... ... the convent, but displayed the easy and habitual grace of a well- trained horseman. Indeed, it seemed that so humble a con- veyance as a mule, in how... ...hich he was himself ashamed, he stood before the affrighted prisoner; yet, ruffian as his dress bespoke him, he seemed at a loss to express what purpo... ...not—send Louis Winkelbrand and a score of thy lances.” “Ye have sufficient ruffians of your own,” said De Bracy; “not one of mine shall budge on such ... ...ar, who, taking ready and effectual part in the fray, soon disposed of the ruffians, all of whom lay on the spot dead or mortally wounded. The Black K...

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...g my mind at all to bear upon or comprehend. And I sat down upon a kind of horsehair slab, or perch, of which there were two within; and looked, witho... ...women talking, and children crawling, and pigs burrowing, and unaccustomed horses plunging and rearing, close to the very rails — there — on, on, on —... ... to the opposite shore, were steam ferry—boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other ferry boats... ...ther long main street, the Bowery. A railroad yonder, see, where two stout horses trot along, drawing a score American Notes – Dickens 88 or two of ... ...ten all sufficient to sustain. There are no bold eyes to make him bold; no ruffians to up hold a ruffian’s name before. All beyond the pitiless stone... ...y are; having, for the most part, scanty brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks: spotted with un wholesome black blotches. They have long...

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...nd the mail, were all so heavy, A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 5 that the horses had three times already come to a stop, be sides once drawing the c... ...iolently shook his head and everything upon it— like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill. Whenever the leader... ...e its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all. T wo other passengers, ... ...re him, where a loaded blunder buss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse pistols, depos ited on a substratum of cutlass. The Dover mail was i... ...all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his ... ...arquis, abandoned the estates when he inherited them, and left them to the ruffian herd. They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves.” “Hey?”... ...ll staring and glaring with beastly excitement and want of sleep. As these ruffians turned and turned, their matted locks now flung forward over their...

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...There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; s... ...emy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered h... ... see if his—his buggy is at the door. What is a buggy, Papa?” “It is a one-horse palanquin,” said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way. Joseph ... ...lunged into them on his return with consid- erable assiduity. He drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental C... ...rocer, was Alderman Dobbin—Alderman Dob- bin was Colonel of the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion. Col... ...n with Becky, she pronounced that Mrs. Crawley was an angel, her husband a ruffian, Lord Steyne an unprincipled wretch, as everybody knew, and the who... ...ched by the story Becky told; “a perfect angel, who adored his mother. The ruffians tore him shrieking out of her arms, and have never allowed him to ... ...r was disengaged too, and swore he would be the winner of her. A couple of ruffians were fighting for this innocent creature, gambling for her at her ...

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....] TIMON: What trumpet’s that? Messenger: ’Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse, All of companionship. TIMON: Pray, entertain them; give them guid... ... Where be our men? Servant: Here, my lord, in readiness. Second Lord : Our horses! [Re enter FLAVIUS, with the casket .] Timon of Athens – Act I, s... ...or, Lord Lucius, Out of his free love, hath presented to you Four milk white horses, trapp’d in silver. TIMON: I shall accept them fairly; let the pr... ...beggar’s dog, And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold. If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon, A... ... him, it foals me, straight, Timon of Athens – Act II, scene i 21 And able horses. No porter at his gate, But rather one that smiles and still invit... ...t, his particular to foresee, Smells from the general weal: make curl’d pate ruffians bald; And let the unscarr’d braggarts of the war Derive some pai...

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...they were used as carpets; sometimes as coverings for the backs of camels, horses, or asses, to render the rider’s seat less incommodious; some- times... ... Charlemagne swam well; Bonaparte not at all. Charlemagne was a first-rate horse- man even amongst the Franks; Napoleon rode ill originally, and no pr... ... been suppressed and intercepted in their rudiments by these expurgatorial ruffians? Mr. Mure mentions as the ex- quisite reason for the present fashi... ... natura, out bounds upon him by huge careering leaps a horrid infu- riated ruffian of a dog—oftentimes a huge moloss, big as an English cow—active as ... ...d, by later travels amongst the Himalayas, it seems that the same gigantic ruffians prevail in Central Asia. But the noble English bull-dogs, who, bei... ...nerally, and in the case of cavalcades, the dogs fas- ten chiefly upon the horses. But endless are the compensa- tions which we find in the distributi... ... remote ages with a romantic idea of the bodily proportions in the men and horses composing the elite of the Macedonian army. This was the true secret... ...his reason, that in some principal gymnastic con- tests, running, leaping, horsemanship, and charioteering, it really was a disadvantage. And hence po...

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...m what you rightly are. Fool: May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee. KING LEAR: Doth any here know me? This... ...ou. KING LEAR: Darkness and devils! Saddle my horses; call my train together: Degenerate bastard! I’ll not trouble thee.... ... O, sir, are you come? Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses. Ingratitude, thou marble hearted fiend, 42 More hideous when thou ... ...sister? OSWALD: Yes, madam. GONERIL: Take you some company, and away to horse: Inform her full of my particular fear; And thereto add such reasons ... ..., friend: art of this house? KENT: Ay. 54 OSWALD: Where may we set our horses? KENT: I’ the mire. OSWALD: Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me. ... ...rade. CORNWALL: Speak yet, how grew your quarrel? OSWALD: This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared at suit of his gray beard,— 57 KENT...