All 25 Uses
mane
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The Heritage of the Desert
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- He saw it distinctly, realized it was close, and breathed hard as the wind-swept mane and tail, the lean, wild shape and single plume resolved themselves into the unmistakable outline of an Indian mustang and rider.†
Chpt 1mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Silvermane is an iron gray, with a silver mane, the most beautiful horse I ever saw.†
Chpt 3 *
- I've not the gift of revelation, yet I seem to see you on a big gray horse with a shining mane.†
Chpt 4
- Wolf spread his legs before her and crouched to spring, mane erect, jaws wide.†
Chpt 6
- He was an iron-gray, wild and proud, with long silver-white mane waving in the wind.†
Chpt 7
- Then into the starlit glade below moved two shadows, the first a great gray horse with snowy mane; the second, a small, shiny, black mustang.†
Chpt 7
- Caught when she was a yearling, broken better than any mustang we ever had, she has helped us run down many a stallion, and now she runs off with that big white-maned brute!†
Chpt 7
- Mescal's love for the mustang shone in her eyes while she smoothed out the crumpled mane, and petted the slender neck.†
Chpt 7mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Twice the workers saw Silvermane standing on open high ridges, restive and suspicious, with his silver mane flying, and his head turned over his shoulder, watching, always watching.†
Chpt 7
- How beautifully his silver mane waved in the wind!†
Chpt 7
- Down this he fled with flying mane, only to be checked by the relentless brothers.†
Chpt 7
- Silvermane was badly spent; he was wet with foam, but no fleck of blood marred his mane; his superb coat showed scratches, but none cut into the flesh.†
Chpt 7
- Later Silvermane drank of the water poured into the corral trough, and had not the strength or spirit to resent the Navajo's caressing hand on his mane.†
Chpt 8
- The white mane waved in the wind; the half-naked Navajo swayed to the motion.†
Chpt 8
- August dismounted and climbed high above the hole to examine the slope; soon he strode down with giant steps, his huge fists clinched, shaking his gray mane like a lion.†
Chpt 9
- If you want to run—who's going to catch you on that white-maned stallion?†
Chpt 9
- Zeke, who had often seen the gray and chased him too, walked round and round him, stroking the silver mane, feeling the great chest muscles, slapping his flanks.†
Chpt 10mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- Silvermane lengthened out and stretched lower with his white mane flying and his nose pointed level for the desert.†
Chpt 10
- Mescal smoothed out Bolly's mane, and Hare gazed up at the walls with eyes that did not see them.†
Chpt 11
- His nose level with the water, mane and tail floating, he swam powerfully with the current.†
Chpt 16
- Hare had one glimpse of Mescal crouching low, shoulders narrowed and head bent; then, with one white flash of the stallion's mane against her flying black hair, she went out of sight in leaping waves and spray.†
Chpt 16
- He was whistling; he had two halters in one hand and with the other he led his bay horse by the mane.†
Chpt 16
- He dreamed of a great gray horse leaping in the sky from cloud to cloud with the lightning and the thunder under his hoofs, the storm-winds sweeping from his silver mane.†
Chpt 18
- As in a dream he saw the proud arch of a splendid neck, the graceful wave of a white-crested mane.†
Chpt 19
- Silvermane browsed where he listed under the shady trees, and many a sinewy red hand caressed his flowing mane.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.