Quirts are occasionally carried on horses used in western riding disciplines, but because the action of a quirt is slow, they are not used to correct or guide the horse, but are more apt to be used by a rider to reach out and strike at animals, such as cattle that are being herded from horseback.

Riders are allowed two different styles of reins: 1 ) split reins, which are not attached to each other, and thus the rider is allowed to place one finger between the reins to aid in making adjustments ; and 2 ) " romal reins ," which are joined together and have a romal ( a type of long quirt ) on the end, which the rider holds in his / her non-reining hand, with at least 16 inches of slack between the two, and the rider is not allowed to place a finger between the reins.

A quirt is a forked type of stock whip which usually has two falls at the end ( like the tails on some tawses ).

The falls on a quirt are made of leather, buffalo, or cow hide.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.

She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.

The girl tapped the quirt impatiently against her knee and glared at him.

He saw her hand start to work down the leather thong toward the handle of the quirt, and he grabbed her wrist.

* A quirt is a short, flexible piece of thickly braided leather with two wide pieces of leather at the end, which makes a loud crack when it strikes an animal or object.

Sometimes called a riding quirt, horse quirt or a dog quirt.

The core of the quirt is usually a leather bag filled with lead shot, the main part including the handle is often made from braided rawhide, leather or kangaroo hide and is usually somewhat stiff but flexible.

The old style horse quirt is still carried by some Western horsemen and this is the style of quirt seen in the early Western cowboy films.

The quirt, due to its slow action, is not particularly effective as a riding aid for horses, though at times it has been used as a tool of punishment.

In the vaquero tradition, a quirt with a long handle, known as a romal, was attached to the end of a closed set of reins.

* Romal reins: a rein style from the vaquero tradition that incorporates a closed rein with a long quirt at the end.

I ought to.

`` I ought to '' -- he said.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.

Personally, I think we ought to set up an immediate naval blockade of Cuba.

I am not suggesting that Fromm ought to do this kind of work.

`` My goodness, you ought to remember if I do.

I ought to remember.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

`` I don't think I've reached the point, yet, where I can say I know everything I ought to know about the craft.

I wondered if I ought to go use the new one myself.

`` I ought to be asleep, too, but I felt like a snack.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.

To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers -- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight ''.

`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.

As a business man I have to use the telephone constantly, from three to four hours a day.

I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.

For my seedbed I use good garden soil with a little sand added to encourage rooting.

`` As for materials, I use the best available.

`` In addition to the usual tools, I make constant use of cleansing tissue, not only to wipe my brushes, but to mop up certain areas, to soften edges, and to open up lights in dark washes.

I also use a small electric hand-blower to dry large washes in the studio.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

For the reason just suggested, I shall assume the use of the first subtype of fully distributed cost apportionment in the following simplified example.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

I cite it as evidence that he did not develop through new styles as he grew older ( as Yeats did ), but that he simply learned to use better what he already had.

This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.

After a few minutes he said, `` I can't use you if you dance like that.