He became the acknowledged strong man of Sonoma Valley, the heaviest lifter and hardest
winded among a husky race of farmer folk.
She was about
winded when it occurred to her to try working the dugout into the stream by loading the stern with ballast and then rocking the bow back and forth along the bank until the craft eventually worked itself into the river.
There he turned,
winded, to await the oncoming foe.
Halting beneath this outer gate, the youth
winded the horn which hung at his side in mimicry of the custom of the times.
So saying he clapped a horn on his lips and
winded three merry notes.
Suddenly the jaguar, attracted either by some slight movement on the part of Ned or Tom, or perhaps by having
winded them, turned his head quickly and gazed with cruel eyes straight at the spot where the two young men stood behind the bushes.
The captives had not long enjoyed their refreshment, however, ere their attention was disturbed even from this most serious occupation by the blast of a horn winded before the gate.
De Bracy winded his horn three times, and the archers and cross-bow men, who had manned the wall upon seeing their approach, hastened to lower the drawbridge, and admit them.
In the midst of the grove was a fine lawn, sloping down towards the house, near the summit of which rose a plentiful spring, gushing out of a rock covered with firs, and forming a constant cascade of about thirty feet, not carried down a regular flight of steps, but tumbling in a natural fall over the broken and mossy stones till it came to the bottom of the rock, then running off in a pebly channel, that with many lesser falls
winded along, till it fell into a lake at the foot of the hill, about a quarter of a mile below the house on the south side, and which was seen from every room in the front.
He had his moments where he got Casimero, who looked
winded midway through the fight, in deep trouble as kept charging like a bull.