And now, having stirred the spirit within him to a demonstrative pitch, PUNCHINELLO shies his cocked hat into space, and calls upon his Public to give three rousing cheers for the RIGHT PARTY.

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.

And the colt shies across the road, runs up the bank, rears on end; putting itself thereby, as many a man does, in real danger.

But the boat swerved at the sight of us, like a shying horse, and was off in another direction as fast as eight frantic oars could drive her.

" They sat there while Rupert practisedtill he started shying the assegais, that isand then they went out and left 'im with Kumbo.

For a while the guns were fired singly and then they were fired in salvos; and you might mark how the grass for fifty yards in front of the muzzles would lie on the earth quite flat and then stand erect, and how the guns, like shying bronchos, would leap backward upon their carriages and then slide forward again as the air in the air cushions took up the kick.

She could feel Colin shying.

But tell me-a horse, when he shies at a beggar, does not he also do so by the spirit of truth?

Shying at a gypsy encampment, he rushed at headlong speed down a zigzagged chalk road, and at last pitched head-first over a declivity.

At the first glance his people are contemporary types, at the second they betray themselves for what they are reallycock-shies set up by the new comedy of Greece that every "classical" satirist in Rome or France or England has had his shot at since.

There were at least three; and, well aware of their character, he was only prudent in shying off, with the intention of avoiding them altogether.

An exciseman whose remarks and answers were frequently rather odd, riding at a quick pace upon a blind pony, was met by a person who praised the animal much, "Yes," replied the officer, "he is a very good one, only he shies at every thing he sees.

I only hope we're tipped the wink in time to shunt out o' here; I've no particular fancy for sitting in a cellar with the Boche cock-shying their bombs down the steps at me."

I ses, shouting at 'im. "'What for?' 'e ses, shying another piece.

" He looked up at the two-story dwelling house before us, let his eyes wander down the row of modest residences and linger on the pavements where a tattered newsboy was shying stones at a stray cat; then his glance came back to my face with a smile.

If you are through with that cup, I will take the things back," and nonchalantly shying the bits of the broken plate into the bushes, he went toward the refreshment tent, saying to his host, Mrs. Jenks-Smith, who was inquiring for Sylvia: "Yes, she is yonder in the second arbour.

There is no millenium, and Pacifists do not expect it or talk about it; the word is just one of those three-shies-a-penny brickbats thrown at them by ignorance.

Already Voltaire's touchy vanity was shying at the rivals he encountered in the king's favor.

I named him "O.K." After a week I changed to "N.G." After he had run away, and no one would buy him, "D.B." At last I succeeded in exchanging this shying and dangerous creature for a melancholy, overworked mare at a livery stable.

For, now that it really came to action, I found myself shying somewhat at the office of executioner; though I meant to do my duty all the same.

I want, above all, to have a comfortable entertaining evening with a nice American girla girl that takes herself and me for granted, and isn't shying off all the time as if I were a sort of bandit.

She was always shying at something.

"My nag shies at neither bear nor wolf!

Five or six lanterns dotted the lower slopes, where the smaller showsthe Aunt Sally, the coconut shies and the swing-boats were being hastily packed.

The highway (Coast to Coast and signed at every crossroads in red letters on white metal boards with red arrows pointing to the far skyline) shies away from the railroad at Patmos so that perspiring travelers look wistfully across two hundred yards or so of lava rock and sand and wish that they might lie under those three trees and cool off.