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"Sidle" Quotes from Famous Books

... to give up further speculation for a while. The trail descended so sharply that his horse had to sidle down it, and the loose shingle under its feet set it sliding and ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

... to him suddenly, might be lying hurt. Jake might have thrown her—though on second thought that was not likely, for Mary V was too good a rider to be thrown unless a horse pitched rather viciously. Jake would run away, would rear and plunge and sidle when fear gripped him or his temper was up, but Johnny had never heard of his pitching. Jake was not a range-bred horse, and if there was a buck-jump in his system, it had never betrayed itself. After all, Mary V's chance of lying ...

— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... again, they walked with turned-in toes. Why? Having scrub to penetrate, they must cut roads through it—a tiresome labour, not pursued more than was necessary. If they turned in their toes, they could sidle along a ...

— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne

... have you to confide in me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening. (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Who has done his day's work? Who will soonest be through with his supper? Who wishes to ...

— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various

... it! They simply adored him, and were ready to lick his boots. It was so funny to see them sidling about him, all of them wagging their tails. He was the master, come among the slaves. But to think that even Doctor Krummlaut should sidle! ...

— Christine • Alice Cholmondeley

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