"Broncho" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... electric forces of nature are unowned, whoever will may gather and direct them to do his purpose. The waterfall may be made to do man's work and will not resist. The animals have no rights against man. The broncho, horse, ox, mule, or animal of any kind, may be turned to man's service. All the forces of nature were made for man. They have no rights to be regarded, when his interests ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
... clean winds and high adventure. If she pictured Echo, Idaho, as being a replica of the "set" used in the movie serial, can you wonder? If she saw herself, the beloved queen of her father's cowboys, dashing into Echo, Idaho, on a crimply-maned broncho that pirouetted gaily before the post-office while handsome young men in chaps and spurs and "big four" Stetsons watched her yearningly, she was merely living mentally the only West that ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... difference between a broncho and a mule? By the earmarks, boy. I've lived in the world long enough to know men. If there be only a drop of Scotch blood in a man, he shows it. Like the mule he brays at the wrong time, or he settles back and stands when he should go forward. Oh, there's many ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... neatly in and separated the flower girl from the monk. "Look here, Minnie," he said gently. "You ain't called on to dance like a broncho, you know. Remember, you're the mother of a family! Cut out having too many dances with that monk. He holds you too tight. I think he's one of the committee men. You floss up to the tallest domino and give him a good time. That's ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow
... have been rolled on three times in one day by a bucking broncho, and thought nothing of it. I absolutely ...
— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy
... accomplished, our agony is complete. A lone highwayman has held up and robbed a populous passenger train in Texas—in West Texas, the rendezvous of the sure-enough bad man, who catches catamounts and clips their claws,— who defies whole barrels o' Jersey lightning and uses the bucking-broncho for his laughter, yea, his sport! Shades o' Ben Thompson and Luke Short, has it come to this,—that a rank stranger can lasso a Texas train, drive the passengers under the seats, plunder them at his pleasure, with no one to molest or make him afraid! ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... said Bobby, looking over the pages and smiling to herself. "They've had an awful row with the new broncho-buster, and Hal had to punch his head for being cruel to the horses. I knew that fellow wasn't any good." She read on for a while to herself. "Says the shooting promises to be great this year. My! but ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... warlike desire caught the cowboy, and he bolted forward with the speed of a broncho. "Go it, Johnnie! go it! ...
— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane |
