But the cut of the quirt transformed Diablo.

"Hush," she said, panting, "grandfather would take a quirt to me if he knew I was here, but, Nal dear, I jest had to come.

If Luke Tweezy had not quickwittedly smacked the animal between the ears with the butt of his quirt it would have continued the motion to a backfall and rolled its rider out.

Racey, however, was a rider, and he jerked Molly's quirt from where it hung on the horn.

Scourge N. scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan^, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote^, blacksnake^, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote^, kurbash^, quirt, rawhide, sjambok^; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.

If we refused, they stuck sharp-pointed knives into us, and struck us with their quirts; though, after Anastacio made the fuss, they didn't strike Juanita any more.

So I started thrashin' him with a quirt, very light.

Morgan yelled and swung the quirt.

He pranced sideways a little and shook his head up and down in an effort to regain his former temper, but that iron hand kept his nose down, now, and that quiet voice sounded above himno cursing, no raking of sharp spurs to torture his tender flanks, no whir of the quirt, but a calm voice of authority and understanding.

Then the quirt flashed above him and cut Rickety's flank; the crowd winced and gasped.

He was not only riding straight up but he was putting the quirt to Ricketyto Rickety!

" The quirt slashed the flank of the piebald but it drew forth only a meek trot.

The cowpunchers, hearing that volleying of hoofbeats, went to spur and quirt to stave off the inevitable, but at five furlongs Lady Mary left her sisters and streaked around the tiring range horses into the lead.

He rode without saddle or blanket, or spur, or quirt; yet, though he had not spoken a word from the moment they had started, the roan with the tiny ears had not broken its steady, swinging, seemingly interminable lope, had scarcely appeared conscious of his presence.

CHAPTER XI THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE The darkness that precedes morning had the prairie country in its grip when Howard, the gaunt foreman of the B.B. ranch, drew rein before the silent tent, and with the butt end of his quirt tapped on the heavy canvas.

He slapped at his baggy chaperajos with his quirt absently.

The crimson quirt, by William Colt MacDonald.

The crimson quirt.

Waring could see the rise and fall of a quirt.

The hobo was sick, and I didn't aim to stand and see him kicked and beat up with a quirt, even if he did steal one of the Starr horses.

She saw Billy just in the act of swishing his quirt down on the flanks of Barney so that the horse almost cleared the creek in one bound.

Abe Carpenter sat on the lowest branch, plaiting a four-strand, square-braided "quirt"; Jimmy Sears was holding the ends.

He poised his quirt and tugged his hat lower over his eyes.

He gathered up the long quirt which had hitherto dangled idly from his wrist, and at the very moment when the piebald had let out another notch in his feats, the doctor, holding on desperately with one hand, with the other brandished the quirt around his head and brought it down with a crack along the flanks of the piebald.

He gathered up the long quirt which had hitherto dangled idly from his wrist, and at the very moment when the piebald had let out another notch in his feats, the doctor, holding on desperately with one hand, with the other brandished the quirt around his head and brought it down with a crack along the flanks of the piebald.