I was mounted on a roan California horsethe fleetest steed I had.

I was mounted on my celebrated horse Brigham, the fleetest steed I ever owned.

My charger, 'mid these hills, was of all steeds The fleetest, and in fiercest war's attack All saw him at the head of the platoon.

H.O. Bassford, now of the Austin Register, was one of the fleetest and cleanest compositers among the territorial printers.

"Nor strength, nor juggling, nor the sorcerer's art Can help him safely through that awful path, Beset with wolves and dragons, wild and fierce, From whom the fleetest have no power to fly.

There is yet time for one skilful as thou to outstrip the fleetest gondola on the canals.

All the time she was watching Will and the girls as they took their way across the lawn; and as soon as they disappeared from her view, she jumped from the hammock, and with the fleetest of fleet footsteps ran into the house.

Underneath their clumsy-looking upper-works, the lines were true and sharp; and but the other day, when the world's clippers were stooping their lithe racehorse-like forms to the seas in the great ocean sweepstakes, the fleetest of all wasa Dutchman.

When now the fleetest of the pack, that pressed Close at his heels, and sprung before the rest, Had fastened on him, straight another pair 90 Hung on his wounded haunch, and held him there, Till all the pack came up, and every hound Tore the sad huntsman, grovelling on the ground, Who now appeared but one continued wound.

She could play the loud jamboon With a fervour corybantic; She could hurl the macaroon Far into the mid-Atlantic; More self-helpful than a SMILES, She could ride on crocodiles, Catch the fleetest flying-fishes; She could cook, like EUSTACE MILES, Wondrous vegetarian dishes.

Yet I knew all the time escape was impossible; for though Maskew ran desperately, the way was steep and stony, and he had behind him some of the fleetest feet along that coast.

They were the fleetest of runners, even if they were girls, and it was for that reason that they and their father were intrusted with the sacred fire.

She carried no more than four hundred square feet of sail; but when he gave her the whip, and let her take to her heels, she outran the fleetest wind that ever swept the lake.

The terror of his foes, a hunter bold, He rode the fleetest horse with ease and grace, The wildest elephant his might could tame, And horned bulls knew well his steady grip.

" None dared save Bukka to essay the feat, Who forthwith sprang upon his horse, and soon O'ertook the running pair, for Timma's horse, Though deemed the fleetest in the land, now felt His double weight, his wonted speed decreased.

True, there were wild animals in the forests, and at this season of the year, when pressed by hunger, they would attack persons if opportunity presented; but could the fleetest outspeed any one of those three, if he or she chose to put forth the utmost strength and skill possessed? "Look!"

Nevertheless, in the attempt to please the public, as in other races, the youngest are often the fleetest.

Where the soul drinks of misery's power, Each moment seems a lengthened hour; But when bright joy illumes the mind, Time passes as the fleetest wind.

She was the fleetest weevil I ever saw.

The telegraph, the telephone, the "wireless," the phonograph, the electric letter writersuch are the modern "conveniences" of romance; and, should an elopement be on foot, what are the fastest post-chaise or the fleetest horses compared with a high-powered automobile?

The ostrich moves like the partridge, with this advantage; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were ever bred in England.

Her father and friends, guessing her intent, on being hailed by her from the top of this rock, dispatched, as the story goes, their fleetest of foot to her rescue, but unavailingly.

The dogs stuck well to their game, and coming at last to an open piece of ground, the fleetest began to close with the Old Man, who was covering an immense space in each bound.

and I arose and leapt upon the fleetest steed and rode until my fever cooled; and thenwhen I had thee once more, I could not keep from thee longer; I resolved upon this plan that I might be with thee, and ride by thy side.

He ran no races after he left Taunton, where he was known for the fleetest pair of heels in the school; he played no games, neither cricket nor football, not even bowls or roundersbut these amusements he probably missed the less as they were not popular at Belfast, the College being new and without muscular traditions, and the students chiefly young men of narrow means and broad ambitions.