If the so-called 'claybank' faction are not altogether friendly to the. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
The 'claybank' leaders control all the conservative elements in the State, and give to Genl. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
In color she was "claybank," with great blotches of white, as if she had been pelted with small bags of flour. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference
"claybank" horses at one time, a perfect match, named Pompey and Caesar, in my early girlhood days. From Wordnik.com. [Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,] Reference
Was dear to Ephraim's eye and heart, it was his claybank, Fan. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
(Was dear to Ephram's eye and heart, it was his claybank, Fan;). From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
“Torres, I heard you had some fancy claybank horses for sale,” he said, undoing the handcuffs and keeping an eye on the sullen outlaw seated on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
The last horse in the train was the unhappy claybank. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
As the anchor, catching in a claybank, jerked the balloon to. From Wordnik.com. [Panther Eye] Reference
The claybank mare, saddled and bridled, stood in front of the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
Upon freeing itself from the frozen claybank, the sausage balloon, with. From Wordnik.com. [Panther Eye] Reference
"She didn't say it was your claybank that snorted?" the Squire gravely inquired. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
Some of them waded in the river and caught a curious fish in holes in the claybank. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
"Keep that a while for me, mister," he said, chewing at the end of a virulent claybank cigar. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Fergus was at the other end of the room trying to break away from two maroons and a claybank girl. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
He was tall and gangling, with claybank hair and complexion and his long, shaggy beard was of a flaxen hue. From Wordnik.com. [The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,] Reference
"Whoa, there!" called out Moise to the offending claybank cayuse which had caused him most of his trouble that afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
The boys got on very well with their packing until they came to the claybank horse which had given Moise so much trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
The General was between a claybank and a bay in complexion, had a 42-inch waist and stood 5 feet 4 with his Du Barry heels. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Wilfrid's pottery had grown up in the last ten years near a claybank, not far from the boundary between his father's land and Edwitha's old home. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
"Well, no, thank you, Squire," the man said, and at the same time he roused the claybank from an instant repose, and pushed her to the cabin steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
"Whoa!" he shouted at the claybank, which the slightest whisper would have stayed; and then he called to the old man on the porch, "Fine mornun ', Squire!". From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
But as he approached meek-looking old Billy, the latter laid back his ears and kicked violently at the claybank, hitting him in the shoulder a resounding thwack. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
"I jes 'met Mis' Leonard comun 'up the crossroad, and she tol' me she saw our claybank hitched here, and I s'picioned Abel was'nt fur off, and that's why I stopped.". From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
The young claybank horse, which made Moise so much trouble, now undertook to usurp a place just back of Betsy instead of falling to the rear of the train where he belonged. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
Braile answered nothing, and the rider of the claybank added, with a certain uneasiness as if for the effect of what he was going to say, "I was up putty late last night, and I reckon I overslep '," he parleyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
The pack-horses seemed to have very short memories of their troubles, for when the line of march was again resumed they went on peacefully enough, even the claybank bringing up the rear as though nothing had happened to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
His serenity was a somewhat hawklike repose, but the light that came into his narrowed eyes was of rather amused liking, as a man on a claybank horse rode up before the cabin in the space where alone it was not hidden by the ranks of the tall corn. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
His aquiline profile, which met close at the lips from the loss of his teeth, compressed itself further in leaving the whole burden of the affair to the man on the claybank, and his narrowed eyes were a line of mocking under the thick gray brows that stuck out like feathers above them. From Wordnik.com. [The Leatherwood God] Reference
Very much to their surprise, the boys found that as long as the claybank had the blinder over his eyes he stood quite patient and docile, not making any protest against the saddle or packs, although when they removed the blinder he snorted and kicked about quite a bit, testing thoroughly the hitch-rope by which he had been made fast. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
"He jes 'borried his dad's claybank mare, an' sot out, an 'never' lowed whar he war bound fur. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
"Aha! you fool horse," said Moise to the offending claybank, "that's what you'll get for not know your place on the train. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
"I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
Page 104 brindled heifer, an 'the gray mare, an' the claybank filly, an 'them ten hogs, an' the yoke o 'steers, an' the wagon, an 'the corn, - them two loads o' corn: that will 'bout make it even, won't it? ". From Wordnik.com. [In the Tennessee mountains,] Reference
"It's been thirty years an 'better," said the girl, "since the Brierlys and Lindsays had some trouble about a claybank filly an 'took to shootin' one another -- shootin 'straight an' shootin 'often an' to kill. From Wordnik.com. [In Old Kentucky] Reference
I forgot claybank and pit. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of an American] Reference
Him an 'gran'dad's claybank mare. ". From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
Buggy, "he says," and claybank mare? ". From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World] Reference
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