The cattle were mustered into one herd; no racing or hastening now, but with the gentle consideration one should extend to the dignified and portly.
Cecil uttered a feeble yelp as the calf came racing past, waved his arms, and executed a few mild steps towards him--attentions which but served to accelerate the Shorthorn's flight.
So he wrenched the pony's mouth round, and presently they were racing up the face of the hill, which apparently made no difference whatever to Bobs.
Not one had a hat; they had long ago been used as missiles in checking a rush, and now lay in the dust, trampled under the racingfeet of the poddies.
Matt was able to hear the men racing along in advance of them, and the larger force behind was drawing nearer and nearer.
An air of peace the garden breathes, and that although children are for ever racing up and down it, shattering the stillness of the air with their cries, rivalling the bells of St. Matthew's round the corner with their piercing notes.
Another time you order the racing droshky to be got out, and set off to the forest to shoot woodcock.
Thereupon, his matted head all stuck with grass and moss and dirt, he set off racing madly for the farmhouse, where he expected to get relief from the strange torment which afflicted him.
The dog was racingthis way and that as crazily, it seemed, as the rabbits, with faint little yelps of excitement and whines of disappointment.
Somehow--but exactly how the boy could never tell--they were racing after her down the immense length of the green meadow.
Thus in horse-racing the better horse must carry the heavier weight.
A "Post and Handy-Cap Match" is described in Pond's Racing Calendar for 1754.
He attended races, because the House of Vipont kept a racing stud.
Those who did not shoot, walked forth to inspect the racing stud or the model farm.
Once started we went at racing speed, sometimes getting a long glissade down soft snow, sometimes a run down small stone debris; it was rather hard on poor Lor Khan, who was not shod for this kind of work, and was soon left far behind.
It passed off very well--racing all the morning, an excellent dinner, and whist and blind hookey in the evening.
At a place called Buckhurst all last week for the Ascot races; a party at Lichfield's, racing all the morning, then eating and drinking, and play at night.
Came here last night, to my great joy, to get holidays, and leave Reform and cholera and politics for racing and its amusements.
Nothing but racing all this week; Parliament has been prorogued and all is quiet.
A month nearly since I have written a line; always racing and always idleness.
While on these racing expeditions I never know anything of politics, and, though I just read the newspapers, have no anecdotes to record of Reform or foreign affairs.
Nothing but racing and hawking; a wretched life--that is, a life of amusement, but very unprofitable and discreditable to anybody who can do better things.
At Fern Hill all last week; a great party, nothing but racing and gambling; then to Shepperton, and to town on Saturday.
Racing headlong, she banged into the gunwale on the opposite side, to stand there panting.
Nancy exclaimed as Sally came racing up the second story ladder, instead of coming down from the attic.
This time, confident of success and eager for the kill, the subs surfaced and came racing in.
We could tell that the vessel was racing through the water at a great rate, but, to judge by the reports that reached our ears, the distance between the combatants was not diminishing.
Cludde was racingafter the barrel, shouting for someone to stop it.
Far up the slope the horsemen could be seen racing after the boys at top speed.
Naturally they could have no idea what his object was in racing with the train, but a look at his set, determined face was enough to convince them that there was a deep purpose back of his work.
And a fine place for racing a limited train," added Matt, his mind running on the possibilities of steam versus gasoline.
The sharp report echoed and reechoed through the hills, and a spurt of dust shot up between the tworacing wheels.
For I now perceived the keener feathering and sharper play upon the waters, and the harder and broader racing of the yeast that was pouring away from either quarter of the lugger.
Boat-racing is to the mariner what horse-racing is to the landsman.
When your racing crew is in proper condition, you row under the bows of the ship you wish to challenge and throw up an oar.
A couple of racing cutters spun down the fairway, and long after they had disappeared we could hear far-off ships applauding them.
Meantime three other boats had been sent off to reinforce the racing cruiser whose constant business it was to keep touch with the enemy.
It would take much to astonish them when, at the completion of their command, they are shifted, say, to a racing cruiser.
Vividly it recalled long-past days in the Britannia's cutters, racing in the landlocked estuary of the Dart.
The engine-room ratings had shut off steam, and the horrible, nerve-racking clank of the racing machinery ceased.
Away you row at racing speed to where experience tells you they will rise again.
Sometimes her bloomers were bloomers, sometimes they were knickerbockers, sometimes little more than the tights of the racing breed.
His thoughts, like his pulse, were racing uncontrollably.
In 1930 Llangollan was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney of New York who have greatly enlarged the old stone mansion and made the estate the home of one of the most famous racing establishments in America.
Do you remember how once on this very rock the daughters of the god met to ride together to his castle, and how they came each riding on her flying horse, racing with the driving wind and the hurrying clouds?
But you'll have to give up the idea of town houses and racing and yachting, and grouse moors in Scotland, and all those sort of things I suppose you've been looking forward to.
He would have spent his time racing or yachting, hunting or shooting, as the fancy took him.
The next moment he was racing for the woods with the speed of the wind.
He was racing along now at top speed and he only slackened his gait when he knew that he had put miles behind him.
Two minutes later the limousine was racing away in the golden sunshine, carrying its passengers to the scene of the mysterious death; and Cleek was again stooping to retie another shoelace, which apparently was giving him a lot of trouble.
The limousine took the angle of the building with a rush and went racing off through the moonlight at a mile-a-minute clip.
