Word: canter
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...rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...
...these parties were only a fraction of those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
Whoa! In Akron, the City Council, dismayed by the recklessness of local horsemen, adopted an ordinance prohibiting riders from putting their mounts through a trot, canter or gallop within city limits...
...sufficiency and intactness. And she learned the thing that made it possible and preferable-her total absorption in acting. It began with rigging herself in her mother's old dresses. It went on with spouting poetry-any old poetry so long as it gave her histrionic impulses a canter. Later, at boarding school, though she was a' prize winner at declamation (see cut, p. 60), her tall, sensitive awkwardness increased her isolation...
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering...