Out flashed his sword, for all about him was a staggering press of horses that neighed and screamed, and men who smote, shouting, and were smitten; unseen blows battered him while he thrust and hewed, and wondered to see his long blade so dimmed and bloody.

The horses neighed, and the oxen lowed, The sheep's "Bleat! Bleat!" came over the road; All seeming to say, with a quiet delight, "Good little girl, good-night, good-night!"

Loud neighed the steeds, and their resounding hoofs.

But Rakush retired towards his master, and neighed and beat the ground so furiously, that Rustem soon awoke; looking around on every side, however, he saw nothingthe dragon had vanished, and he went to sleep again.

Others, on the edge of the dock, neighed at the sight of the ocean.

The mules neighed, the carters swore, whilst the wine fell with a dull sound to the bottom of the vat.

A general nod approved the cause, And all the circle neighed applause.

Now all these folk of greater or lesser degree were entirely unaware that Sir Launcelot lay sleeping so nigh to them as they rode by chattering very gayly together in the spring-time weather, taking great pleasure in the warm air, and in growing things, and the green fields, and the bright sky; and they would have had no knowledge that the knight was there, had not Sir Launcelot's horse neighed very lustily.

Formerly, they jogged on with as little reflection as horses: the whistling ploughman went cheek by jowl with his brother that neighed.

the horses neighed back at them.

"Monday fortnight," answered Dick, entering a loose box, in which stood a remarkably handsome mare, that neighed at him, and rubbed her head against his breast.

Our horses neighed, while the two armies each uttered a cry, only a space necessary for the combat being left between them.

Alcatraz lifted his beautiful head and neighed across the lowlands.

Presently the black stallion neighed softly, whereat the rest of the herd bunched closely together, the mares with the foals on the side, and all heads turning towards the black who now galloped to a hilltop, surveyed the horizon and presently dropped his head to graze again.

Then Alcatraz drew away and neighed his triumph, and in his exultation he noted that the herd drew close together at his call.

To prove it, he trotted to the nearest hilltop and neighed as he had heard the black neigh.

His companion kept on until he neighed.

The road opened into an unfenced semicircle with corrals on every side and from one of these enclosures a horse neighed, and there was a brief sound of many trampling feet.

Ammalát Bek could not but admire the stillness, not only of the riders, but of their horses; not one of them neighed or snorted, and they seemed to place their feet on the ground with caution.

At that instant a horse neighed outside; then I heard the sound of hoofs pounding on soft soil.

Again and again I neighed, pawing the ground impatiently, and tossing my head to get the rein loose.

Just as we were passing out of sight the poor creatures neighed pitifully after us, and one who has never heard the last despairing, pleading neigh of a horse left to die can form no idea of its almost human appeal.

They neighed a welcome the moment his boot struck the stones of the yard, for they loved their master with all the love their strong, timid, patient hearts were as yet capable of.

Behind him the stallion neighed suddenly and loud, and it was so much like a blast of defiant triumph that Buck whirled and shook his clenched fist at Satan.

Then, clearer than before, dominating all the confusion of noise, and with a ringing, trumpet note of courage in it, the black stallion neighed again from his burning stall.