All 49 Uses
stallion
in
The Heritage of the Desert
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- Wild stallions.†
Chpt 3
- Both stallions ought to be killed.†
Chpt 3
- A third time the whistle rang down from the ridge, splitting the air, strong and trenchant, the fiery, shrill challenge of a stallion.†
Chpt 7 *
- On the bare summit stood a splendid stallion clearly silhouetted against the ruddy morning sky.†
Chpt 7
- That whistle was just plain fight, judging from what Naab told me of wild stallions.†
Chpt 7
- Jack, the history of that stallion wouldn't make you proud of him.†
Chpt 7
- The stallions he's killed, the mares he's led off!†
Chpt 7
- The stallion, in the fulfilment of a conquest such as had made him king of the wild ranges, was magnificent in action.†
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
- Then Mescal can help us run down the stallion.†
Chpt 7
- It'll take a week to cut and drag the cedars, let alone to tire out that wild stallion.†
Chpt 7
- It'd be worth something to find out how long that stallion could go without water," commented Dave.†
Chpt 7
- Hare watched the stallion with sheer fascination; He ran seemingly without effort.†
Chpt 7
- The brothers, taking advantage of the brief periods when the stallion was going toward August, changed their tired mustangs for fresh ones.†
Chpt 7
- Uttering a piercing snort of terror the gray stallion lunged out, for the first time panic-stricken, and lengthened his stride in a wonderful way.†
Chpt 7
- Those desert stallions can be made into the finest kind of saddle-horses.†
Chpt 8
- But I can't see that wild stallion with a saddle and a bridle, eating oats like any common horse, and being led to water.†
Chpt 8
- The Indian rode around the corral, circling closer and closer, yet appearing not to see the stallion.†
Chpt 8
- In an hour the Indian was edging the outer circle of the corral, with the stallion pivoting in the centre, ears laid back, eyes shooting sparks, fight in every line of him.†
Chpt 8
- It spread out like a lasso, and the loop went over the head of the stallion, slipped to the knot and held fast, while the rope tightened.†
Chpt 8
- But the Indian's moccasined foot shot up under the stallion's ear and pressed him back.†
Chpt 8
- The time passed, but Hare's interest in the breaking of the stallion never flagged.†
Chpt 8
- Gallop fell to trot, and trot to jog, and jog to walk; and hour by hour, without whip or spur or word, the breaker of desert mustangs drove the wild stallion.†
Chpt 8
- Late that afternoon the Navajo led a dripping, drooping, foam-lashed stallion into the corral, tied him with the halter, and left him.†
Chpt 8
- Swiftly the Indian knelt on the stallion's head; his hands flashed; there was a scream, a click of steel on bone; and proud Silvermane jumped to his feet with a bit between his teeth.†
Chpt 8
- He rose at dawn, never failing to see the red sun tip the eastern crags; he glowed with the touch of cold spring-water and the morning air; he trailed Silvermane under the cedars and thrilled when the stallion, answering his call, thumped the ground with hobbled feet and came his way, learning day by day to be glad at sight of his master.†
Chpt 9
- If you want to run—who's going to catch you on that white-maned stallion?†
Chpt 9
- August Naab had once said fifty miles a day would be play for the stallion.†
Chpt 10
- You can corral me if it ain't thet Sevier range stallion!†
Chpt 10
- If I owned this ranch I'd trade it for that stallion.†
Chpt 10
- Hare guided the thundering stallion slightly to the left.†
Chpt 10
- DESERT NIGHT THE gray stallion, finding the rein loose on his neck, trotted forward and overtook the dog, and thereafter followed at his heels.†
Chpt 15
- Down and down, step by step, cracking the stones with iron-shod hoofs, the gray stallion worked his perilous way, sure-footed as a mountain-sheep.†
Chpt 15
- Evidently the rich grass of Thunder River Canyon appealed strongly to the desert stallion.†
Chpt 16
- The stallion towed him easily.†
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
- Hare mounted in front of Mescal, and put the stallion to an easy trot; after two hours of riding they struck a bridle-trail which Hare recognized as one leading down to the spring.†
Chpt 16
- The shoulder of the charging stallion struck Dene and sent him spinning out of the trail.†
Chpt 16
- But the mouth of the stallion was iron; regardless of the sawing bit, he galloped on.†
Chpt 17
- The rapid pounding of the stallion's hoofs drowned the clatter coming up the trail.†
Chpt 17
- Fast as the noble stallion was speeding he answered to the call.†
Chpt 17
- Seeing that they could not head the invincible stallion they sheered more to the right.†
Chpt 17
- He touched a raw groove, and the stallion flinched.†
Chpt 17
- Come in, come in, Dave will look out for the stallion.†
Chpt 17
- The stallion will kill him yet!†
Chpt 17
- He was raising up when the stallion ran over him.†
Chpt 17
- The stallion melted into the misty curtain, the beating of hoofs softened and ceased.†
Chpt 19
- That she would rest the stallion at the Navajo pool on the mountain he made certain.†
Chpt 19
- Hare saddled the stallion to have him in instant readiness, and then returned to the front of the yard.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(stallion) a male horse that has not been castrated (gelded) -- especially one used for breeding purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)