Larkspur spluttered and shied and then plunged to one side into a fellow student standing near.

On the instant of the accompanying blow-out the grey car shied like a frightened horse and swerved off the road, hurtling headlong into a clump of trees.

One evening, about sunset, while I was riding through a valley near our village, my horse shied violently in passing a clump of bushes.

Our horses having been so little used, were very fresh and rather fond of shying, and our guide's, which was an Arab, not only shied at the impediment, but wheeled round with the intention of going homewards.

If she had had energy enough I reckon she would have shied about and run back the way she had come, for now, just ahead, lay two dead horsesa big gray and a roanwith their stark legs sticking out across the road.

He complained that his horses shied at passing Temple Bar.

The donkey shied back, levelled his ears and twisted his head on one side, awaiting a beating, but his bleeding legs saved him.

Here the mustang suddenly shied with such violence that his rider was nearly thrown, while a rattlesnake darted from the path.

Yet it was so downright and straightforward, it was hard to be the very reverse in answer to it, and I shied idiotically at the honest lie.

As he turned the first corner, his horse shied at the dead body of a negro, lying huddled up in the collapse which marks sudden death.

" He shied a little to the right, with a view of preventing a collision with the creatures, and the moment he was close enough, let fly with one chamber at the nearest.

The groom wrapped the boys up as well as he could, and was urging the horse on, when it suddenly shied and came to a standstill.

" "Not all of them," he denied as he shied a stick at a white head reaching from below for a grassy clump.

With sobered faces they shied around me as I strode past, and when fairly safe broke into a run for camp.

Baptiste was nearest to him and reached him first, but just as he got to him, and was leaning over from his horse, to strike the dead man, the animal shied at the body, swerving to one side, and he failed to touch it.

I stood still and he did not see me, but his horse shied violently.

He also bounded, shied, dodged, ducked, swerved, dropped, crawled, zig-zagged and generally gave his best attention to evading the shot of the common fighting-man whom he had propitiatorily addressed as "Emir," though a mere wearer of a single fillet of camel-hair cord around his haik.

It came into his head, he says, that there could be nothing there, because if there was his horse would have shied at it.

The game did not seem to be worth the candle, and the Smithsons themselves shied at the idea when it was borne in upon them that there would be little or no shooting to be done en route.

He would have only had to wait one minute and the horses would have been by with a clear road before them if they shied.

Some shied; others were liable to be overcome by "blind staggers"; three had the epizootic badly, and longed to lie down; one was nearly blind.

His horse shied at the mill, but down his flank

The pony shied and trotted into the corral, the other horses following.

Lorry shied his dollar and knocked the other's coin several feet away from the line.

As Ramon started back toward town his horse shied at something near the arroyo's entrance.