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Even the metatarsals were girdled in righteous indignation committed against their person by a maverick masquerading in pelvic insubordination.
It had been a maverick asteroid, one which, because of its positive gravity, never became a captive of other bodies in space.
In the winter or in the early spring after his hibernation, Bruin would have stalked this maverick as cleverly as any wolf.
Working for Barb Doubleday; he branded mavericks for him, played dummy for his land entries, swore to false affidavits for him.
They discussed everything from the latest make of cartridges and revolvers to the best way to rope a steer and brand a maverick.
Full three lengths in the lead of the "unbeatable" Thunderbolt the Gold Dust maverick flashed under the wire in front of the judges!
With a tremendous leap the Gold Dust maverick sprang high into the air, lunging forward while all her hoofs were off the ground.
We were soon in the thick of the fray, easily holding our own, branding every maverick on the range as well as catching wild cattle.
His cowboys would ride about, cutting out the unmarked animals, with the cool statement: "That's a maverick," meaning that it belonged to their "boss."
I didn't expect to meet any mavericks, as it was just after the spring roundup and there wasn't a chance in a hundred of seeing one.
Women screamed frantically, hysterically, tears streaming from thousands of eyes because of sheer joy at the wonderful thing the Gold Dust maverick was doing.
Fast as the mavericks were urged on, they could not make the same speed over the rough ground that the ponies of their tormentors achieved.
A couple of times, glancing out of the window, Carolyn June saw him at the circular corral petting and caressing Captain Jack or the Gold Dust maverick.
For the space of a deep breath the maverick crouched, grew tense in every muscle, slowly arched her back, gathered herself together for a great effort.
Captain Jack was standing at the bars of the corral and behind him the early sunlight glinted on the chestnut sides of the Gold Dust maverick.
No further attempts were made to rope the unmanageable maverick, but all cowboys were armed with rifles and ordered to shoot him on sight, and to shoot to kill.
So, when it came to the round-up, the old doctor received his reward, for he claimed every maverick in the bunch and took them home for his own.
True, they were renegades and mavericks, but they were each of them unique and individual, and Harry enjoyed listening to them fan the breeze during the long nights.
She had a telescope of her own, and when her brother did not need her services she swept the heavens on her own account for maverick comets.
Some of 'em are a little wobbly on their legs, and some are mavericks without extra many brands on their backs, but they'll most all pay out at the round-up.
Such cattle are mavericks, and whoever comes upon them loses little time in scorching his brand into their shoulders or hips, after which no one cares to dispute their ownership.
A cowboy, searching for lost mavericks, rode slowly to the top of a low sand dune, reined up his pony, and sat silent in the midst of this solemn spectacle.
Away over, next to the outside fence, on the far side of the track, open now before him for the long outfield stretch, the Rambling Kid straightened the Gold Dust maverick out.
She threw herself with a passionate absorption into her studies, her music, and her gymnasium work, cut off both from the "elect" and from the multitude, a proudly self-acknowledged maverick.
"You are wise, Sing Pete," Carolyn June laughed as she left the kitchen by the back door and started toward the corral where the Gold Dust maverick was restlessly pacing about.
The Gold Dust maverick leaped to the center of the enclosure as the group drew near and stood with head up, eyes flashing and nostrils quivering, a perfect picture of defiance and fear.
The man replied by asking Mallory if he happened to be a flea-bitten maverick, and embellished his question with a copious flow of the words ministers use, but with a secular arrangement of them.
Twice he lifted the man's head and knocked it furiously against the floor, and each time he spoke, his voice a hoarse, throaty whisper: "So, this is the way you greet your son, you damned maverick!"
Victoria Johnson Blake Chalmers; but with whatever strength of emotion remained, with whatever capability of love may exist in a person who must be always right, Victoria would be feeling a genuine distress for her maverick daughter, perhaps also for dead Ann Doherty, even for Jim Doherty.