All 18 Uses of

hobbled

in

All the Pretty Horses

Late afternoon they crossed a road that ran to the south and in the evening they reached Johnson's Run and camped at a pool in the otherwise dry gravel bed of the watercourse and watered the horses and hobbled them and turned them out to graze.†
Chpt 1

They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddlelegged clutching their knees and vomiting.†
Chpt 1

John Grady walked out and unsaddled the horses and hobbled them and turned them out and came back with his blanket and saddle.†
Chpt 1

He got the sack and hobbleropes and came up and while John Grady talked to the horse he hobbled the front legs together and then took the mecate rope and handed John Grady the sack and he held the horse while for the next quarter hour John Grady floated the sack over the animal and under it and rubbed its head with the sack and passed it across the horse's face and ran it up and down and between the animal's legs talking to the horse the while and rubbing against it and leaning against…†
Chpt 2

He held the mecate while Rawlins undid the sideropes from the hackamore and knelt and tied them to the front hobbles.†
Chpt 2

He gathered the reins and looped them over the horse's head and nodded and Rawlins knelt and undid the hobbles and pulled the slipnooses until the siderope loops fell to the ground at the horse's rear hooves.†
Chpt 2

They walked out through the grass, Blevins hobbling after them.
Chpt 3 *

hobbling = walking with difficulty

The other man walked behind them carrying the rifle and Blevins disappeared into the ebony trees hobbling on one boot much as they had seen him that morning com; ng up the arroyo after the rain in that unknown country long ago.†
Chpt 3

The old man hobbled off toward the gate and unlatched it and stepped out into the street and turned and shut the gate again and was gone.†
Chpt 4

He slid down and caught the Purisima horse, hobbling after it on one leg and the horse shifting and eyeing him nervously.†
Chpt 4

At the rockslide he dismounted and tied the horse and took out a cigarette and lit it and hobbled up around the tumbled rocks and boulders carrying the rifle.†
Chpt 4

He took a good draw on the cigarette to get it burning and then laid it carefully across the string and stepped back and picked up the rifle and turned and hobbled back out to where the horses stood.†
Chpt 4

He left the captain at the tank and hobbled with the rifle up the arroyo and gathered dead floodwash brush and hobbled back and made a fire at the upper end of the basin.†
Chpt 4

He left the captain at the tank and hobbled with the rifle up the arroyo and gathered dead floodwash brush and hobbled back and made a fire at the upper end of the basin.†
Chpt 4

He limped around to the horses and got the rope and sat with his knife and cut hobbles from it for all the horses and looped them about their forefeet.†
Chpt 4

With the other hand he reached for the waterbottle standing unstoppered on the rocks and poured water over his leg and heard the flesh hiss like something on a spit and he gasped and let the bottle fall and he raised up and called out his horse's name to him softly where he scrabbled and fell on the rocks in his hobbles among the others that he might ease the fright in the horse's heart.†
Chpt 4

He pulled himself up and took out the keys from his pocket and using the rifle to steady himself he hobbled over and bent and took hold of the captain's wrists and unmanacled them.†
Chpt 4

He hobbled down the rows and gathered melons and carried them out through the field to where the horses stood and broke them open on the ground at their feet for them to feed on and he stood leaning on the rifle and looked toward the house.†
Chpt 4

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