spoils enrich one, usury another, treason a third, witchcraft a fourth, flattery a fifth, lying, stealing, bearing false witness a sixth, adultery the seventh," &c. One makes a fool of himself to make his lord merry, another dandles my young master, bestows a little nag on him, a third marries a cracked piece, &c. Now may it please your good worship, your lordship, who was the first founder of your family?

He loafed along the pleasant Irish ways, missed his ship, and presently turned up cheerfully amongst his relatives, minus all his money, and riding a sorry nag called Fiddleback, for which he had traded his own on the way.[203]

there's something ahead, and I'd better slow up!" It proved to be a farm wagon, pulled by two tired nags, and headed for home, after a day in the town market.

But seventeen days is a deadly slow nag.

and trying to rouse the exhausted nags with a switch, he showed him that they did not move.

There is some superb horseflesh here just now, and the fastest nags may be seen doing their Level best on the Smooth Beach.

The country-people, jogging along to the mill, walked their fat old nags through the stillness and warmth so slowly that even Margaret left them far behind.

This time he found a bit of shade and a fence rail for the too friendly nag, and entering the Jenks-Smith grounds afoot, followed the crowd that was gathering.

After a sore struggle, during which we thought more than once the gallant nags would never emerge from the water, they staggered up the bank, dripping, trembling, and utterly overcome with their exertions.

One was Judge Webster's horse, the other was a gentle nag, with a lady's side-saddle on his back.

I'll go yer five hundred dollars agin a hundred that the gray nag gits left behind.

"Homeser-weet home," he repeated sentimentally"home among the horseswhere some Roman-nosed, camel-backed, slant-eared nag is probably waitin' to kick daylight out'r me!

He's a rotten nag for a woman, anyhow.

But seventeen days is a deadly slow nag.

Although I never studied horseflesh much, even in my university days, I can admire a spirited nag on occasion.

Carts clatter by every moment, drawn by swift Maremma nags, gay with brass harness, tinkling bells, and tassels of crimson on reins and frontlet.

The distance to ride is seven miles, and the time one hour; but in the United States, you are aware, every chap will "do as he best pleases;" consequently, there is a little information to be obtained from the fresh arrival, a cock-tail with a friend or two, a quiet piling on of luggage, &c.; all this takes a long half-hour, and away we go with four tough little nags.

Up in the early morning, before the hot blazing sun has climbed on high, he is off on his trusty nag, through his Zeraats, with his greyhounds and terriers panting behind him.

Bess and Beautythey were the horses, and of all the ugly nags that ever I saw Beauty was the uglieststarted off on a round trot, slewing along down the hill; they knew they were going home just as well as I did.

As it could be replaced in an hour, and the material lay all around, we fired the hut, which soon, blazed up, throwing a weird lurid glow on bank and stream, and disclosing far on the other bank our weary nags and shivering syces, looking very bedraggled and forlorn indeed.

My host having kindly lent me his carriage and a pair of wiry nags, I started for Batavia to meet the railway.

He rides a sorry brown nag "not worth £5," but mounts his groom on a race-horse "twice victor for a plate.

He rides a sorry brown nag "not worth £5," but mounts his groom on a race-horse "twice victor for a plate.

Léontine's constant nagging had borne fruit, after all, in that it had at least taught him to bite down on his words, and to smile at provocation.

You're simply driving me to my grave with your continual nagging and abuse and fault-finding.