Yet she scanned the surroundings closely, and peered into the bushes and behind the rocks before she tried to urge Sage King closer.

He refused to go nearer, and Lucy dismounted.
The red horse was partly hidden by overbending brush.

He had plunged into a hole full of cactus.

There was a hackamore round his nose and a tight noose round his neck.

The one round his neck was also round his forelegs.