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After listening again with great care for any sound I touched the horses with my whip,..
Frederick Philip Grove,Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 31.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
A rumbling sound made me sit up at last. We were crossing over the "twelve-mile bridge." In spite of my dreaming I was keeping my eyes on the look-out for any sign of a landmark, but this was the only one I had known so far, and it came through the ear, not the eye.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 34.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I had become all ear. Even though by buggy was silent and though the road was coated with a thin film of soft clay-mud, I could distinctly hear the muffled thud of the horses' hoofs on the ground that they were running over a grade.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 34.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I listened intently for the horses' thump. Yes, there was that muffled hoof-beat again - I was on the last grade that led to the angling road across the corner of the marsh.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 34.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I listened intently - no sound of man or beast, no soughing of wind in stems or rustling of the very last leaves that were now fast falling .... And then the startling neighing of Dan, my horse!
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 35.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
Their hoofs struck wood, and both beasts snorted and stopped.
Frederick Philip Grove Over Prairie Trails,, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 37.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I sang out and clicked my tongue to the horses ,...
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 38.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
Much as I listened, I could not make out any difference in the tramp of the horses now... I should have heard the rumble on the bridge, and I felt convinced that I had not
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 41.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
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