Port was quite contented, after getting into the cowyard, to let the milking be done by some one who knew how; and he had the satisfaction of seeing Corry kicked over into the snow-pail, milk, and all-by a brindled heifer who had no need of any kind of weather to bring out her natural skittishness.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard
Now and then her skittishness gave him an opportunity of saying a word or two, to which Cyril replied in monosyllables.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Fleetwood had given him the dispossessing shrug of the man out of the run, and the hint of the tip for winning, with the aid of operatic arias; and though he was in Fleetwood's books ever since the prize-fight, neither Fleetwood nor the husband nor any skittishness of a timorous wife could stop the pursuer bent to capture the fairest and most inflaming woman of her day.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith