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“My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.”

Left Behinds Leader Horse Killing Rounds Shooting Riding Crowded Brutes Herds Forte

Book:Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s”

Years Night Song Cry Wind Mets Mountain Horse Rounds Track Stranger Hearing Ghost Tales Hills Silver Legends Waking Midnight Cliffs Cattle Huts Roaming Campfire Stallions

Author:Elyne Mitchell

“World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.”

World Light Night Cities Fire Sky Car Bird Horse Wings Rounds Flying Snow Flight Wheels Steel Fragments Merry Scarlet Merry Go Round City Lights

Author:Tanith Lee

“And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.”

Stills Horse Rounds Village

Author:Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

“whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!”

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

Years Humor Running Funny Five Streets Horse Rounds Five Years Purple Merry Five Year Olds Merry Go Round Gunshots

Author:Steven Wright

“There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.”

Policy Horse Rounds Circles Administration Merry Merry Go Round

Author:John F. Kerry

“Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.”

Ifs Want Kids Fall Gold Horse Rounds Rings Say Anything Carousels

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peking through a thin layer of clouds. The muscles in his arms are relaxed; his hand rests on the back of his neck. He looks almost comfortable, holding that gun to his shoulder. I close my eyes briefly. Why does he distract me so easily? I need to focus.”

Needs Looks Doe Hands Eye Stars Focus Four Feet Sky Arms Moon Comfortable Gun Horse Rounds Clouds Edges Shoulders Lifts His Eyes Muscles Necks Layers Plastic Relaxed Carousels

Author:Veronica Roth

“The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.”

Way Levels Higher Horse Rounds Atmosphere Global Warming Carbon Triggers Higher Level Carts Theorists Carbon Dioxide Kyoto

Author:Andrey Kapitsa

“Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.”

Men Wells Courses Proud Horse Bounds Rounds Deeds Noble Manage Controversy Riders Subjection Mettle

Book:The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint