midnight
Hebrew for noble , pronounced Shash ` a-ai . -RSB- and the girl reached up both arms to draw down into their embrace the silky head of a superb young colt which stood close beside her ; a creature which would have made any horse-lover stop stock-still and exclaim at sight of him . He was a magnificent two-year-old Kentuckian , faultless as to his points , with a head to set an artist rhapsodizing and a-tingle to put it upon his canvas . His coat , mane and tail were black as midnight and glossy as satin . The great , lustrous eyes held a living fire , the delicate nostrils were a-quiver every moment , the faultlessly curved ears alert as a wild creature 's . And he WAS half wild , for never had saddle rested upon his back , girth encircled him or bit fretted the sensitive mouth . A halter thus far in his career had been his only badge of bondage and the girl caressing him had been the one to put it upon him .