Word: tails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gosh! look at that picter of a hoss up there: he's a fine-looking critter, ain't he? Speaking of hosses, you know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute; and if I did n't jest lay over him, my name...
...once, when overhead a comet's tail...
...dreamed that I was fishing quietly, when suddenly I heard a commotion behind me in the boat. I turned around, and there, to my amazement, beheld a twenty-pound cod, that I had just caught, erect upon its tail, glaring at me with intense rage and indignation. Abashed and disconcerted by the menacing and determined expression of the fish, I was still more startled to observe that its body was growing longer and larger, till it was towering above me. The features, too, were changing : the look of fury gradually subsided into one of melancholy; the tail kept...
Just then an ominous growl broke upon my ears. I trembled violently, and my teeth rattled with fear. There was a rustling in the bushes - I looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...
...fears, as he considered himself a very good rider; but no sooner had he thrown his leg over the animal's back than the mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that he wanted...