Falling to pieces Quote by Charles Dickens

“With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling…

— Charles Dickens

“After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until…

— Mark Twain

“Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that…

— Enid Blyton

“We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys. I always took particular care in…

— Brodi Ashton

“I remember going home at night, exhausted, feeling like I was balancing on the backs of a herd of horses—only some of the horses…

— Ed Catmull

“The shaggy saddle horses, already winter-coated, stood with their backs to the wind, watching the two men in the corral, the horses’ tails blowing…

— Kent Haruf

“They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddle legged…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep into sight, borne now upon a cloud of phantom dust. They…

— William Faulkner

“he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and…

— Homer

“An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down…

— Bernard Cornwell

“At the next bend I had a brisk argument with two fat peasant ladies, balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, who were wildly…

— Gerald Durrell

“The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one…

— John Green