167 examples of racer in sentences

By this time I had learned that my horse Tall Bull was a remarkably fast runner, and therefore when Lieutenant Mason, who was quite a sport and owned a racer, challenged me to a race, I immediately accepted it.

Had I known him as well then as I did afterwards I would have backed him for every dollar I had, for he proved to be one of the swiftest ponies I ever saw, and had evidently been kept as a racer.

His eyes were cast down in a strange fashion, unlike the bold, inquisitive peering of his countrymen,the more strange, in that he spoke harshly and abruptly, like a racer catching breath.

For nearly two years Dorsey had been crowing because of the defeat of Quicksilver by the black racer from the Vermejo.

The racer danced proudly, prancing forward in short, graceful leaps as the column swept past the grandstand and the consolidated Eagle Butte and Vegas bands crashed out the strains of a stirring march.

He found Ali asleep between the black racer and the dun leader.

The fourth on the right of the dun was the black racer.

The dun leader and the black racer had lanyards about their necks.

In a panic, a sand-storm, a fusillade from Bedouins, a mirage, and a race for water, if Abdullah and Ali could grasp these lanyards, the caravan was saved, since the other camels followed the dun leader and the black racer as sheep follow the bell-wether.

At intervals he rode the black racer.

The black racer could make sixty miles a day for five days, without drinking, but at the end of such a journey his hump would be no larger than a pincushion, and his temper?

"Ali," he cried, "place the damsel's saddle on the black racer, and put mine on the dun.

" In five minutes the black racer and the dun leader were saddled.

Abdullah made the racer and the dun kneel close together.

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She could not keep him forever,that was evident; she knew enough to be aware that time would increase his disabilities as a pet, and he was an expensive one now,for the corn-swallowing capacities of a pig, one of the "racer" breed, are almost incredible, and nothing about Miss Lucinda wanted for food even to fatness.

A fast horse is not required; for a racer that can do the mile on the flat at Newmarket in something under two minutes is reduced in really deep ground to an eight-mile-an-hour canter, and your short-legged horse from the Emerald Isle will leave him standing still in the Braydon Vale.

"Melody is the essence of Music," said Mozart to Michael Kelly; "I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counter-points to hack post-horses.

" I began to comprehend Deblore's innocent reference to his favorite horse Nigger; and a successful race he had made with the well-known racer Marshallnot Rynderswas construed by my jury into a knowledge on my part of the operations of the "Underground Railroad."

George Allan and Danny Kelly, from out their superior wisdom in dog affairs, agreed that while improbable, it had never been impossible for a freighter to develop into a racer under favorable conditions.

R58448, 7Feb50, Edna St. Vincent Millay (A) I SAW THE RACER COMING TO THE JUMP ...

I saw the racer coming to the jump ... R61279.

She has been a famous racer in Canadacan travel easily twenty-five miles a day.

I could hardly wait until morning to gloat over my gentle racer!

In France, too, the Irish racer has made his mark.

167 examples of  racer  in sentences