Even more than his
mare, Vronsky longed to see Gladiator, whom he had never seen.
You'd just better tie up to Thomas, for he loves you and you love him and nothing else ain't going to do you.' Jog along, black
mare. So I told Thomas I'd take him.
"Good morning, mister," said the pedlar, reining in his
mare. "If you come from Kimballton or that neighborhood, may be you can tell me the real fact about this affair of old Mr.
The
mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word YAHOO often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.
The first thirty miles or so was a good metal road, too good to go half round the world to ride on, but after Whittlesea it was a mere track over the ranges, a track I often couldn't see and left entirely to the
mare. Now it dipped into a gully and ran through a creek, and all the time the local color was inches thick; gum-trees galore and parrots all colors of the rainbow.
Miss Grey, I wish you would tell her not to use such shocking words; she will call her horse a
mare: it is so inconceivably shocking!
Next to him, yellow-haired Menelaus son of Atreus rose and yoked his fleet horses, Agamemnon's
mare Aethe, and his own horse Podargus.
When the traveller came up with them he saluted them courteously, and spurring his
mare was passing them without stopping, but Don Quixote called out to him, "Gallant sir, if so be your worship is going our road, and has no occasion for speed, it would be a pleasure to me if we were to join company."
'There it is, sir,' replied John; 'and take care of it; and mind you don't make too much haste back, but give the
mare a long rest.-- Do you mind?'
'The bay
mare splashed away, through the mud and water, with drooping ears; now and then tossing her head as if to express her disgust at this very ungentlemanly behaviour of the elements, but keeping a good pace notwithstanding, until a gust of wind, more furious than any that had yet assailed them, caused her to stop suddenly and plant her four feet firmly against the ground, to prevent her being blown over.
Billy turned his slow gaze upon her
mare's lather, seeming not to note it, and continued on to Saxon's face.
The first actual pain which Miss Crawford occasioned her was the consequence of an inclination to learn to ride, which the former caught, soon after her being settled at Mansfield, from the example of the young ladies at the Park, and which, when Edmund's acquaintance with her increased, led to his encouraging the wish, and the offer of his own quiet
mare for the purpose of her first attempts, as the best fitted for a beginner that either stable could furnish.