 | 1886 - 556 páginas
...: the Arabian is two lengths behind ; but he is not running. They thunder up the quarter-stretch : Sir Archy is bounding, like some diabolical monster,...utters a shout which shakes the surrounding forest. The owner of Sir Archy looks with ominous meaning at Jake : that youth begins to tremble, and says... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 542 páginas
...leads ; Fair Anna trails on a hard rein ; the Arabian is two lengths behind ; but he is not running. They thunder up the quarter stretch : Sir Archy is...and neck. Sir Archy whirls past the stand, and wins by a hundred yards. The immense crowd utters a shout that shakes the surrounding forest. ....... The... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 páginas
...leads; Fair Anna trails on a hard rein ; the Arabian is two lengths behind ; but he is not running. They thunder up the quarter stretch : Sir Archy is...and neck. Sir Archy whirls past the stand, and wins by a hundred yards. The immense crowd utters a shout that shakes the surrounding forest. ....... The... | |
 | Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 páginas
...leads ; Fair Anna trails on a hard rein ; the Arabian is two lengths behind ; but he is not running. They thunder up the quarter stretch : Sir Archy is...and neck. Sir Archy whirls past the stand, and wins by a hundred yards. The immense crowd utters a shout that shakes the surrounding forest. ....... The... | |
 | Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 páginas
...in spite of his owner's cries; the Arabian has come up and is running neck and neck with the mare. Sir Archy whirls past the stand and wins the heat by a hundred yards. The crowd utters a shout that shakes the surrounding forest. The owner of Sir Archy looks with ominous... | |
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... are off like lightning. The course is a mile in circumference, and they go round it before the excited crowd can look at them a dozen times. They whirl past the stand, and push on again. Sir Archy leads ; Fair Anna trails on a hard rein ; the Arabian... 