When I saw them thus dismayed, my horse being an intelligent animal, I arranged thebridle on his neck and took the end of the halter with my left hand.
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns!
Grettir went back north with Thorfinn, and was with him till he gat him to ship with chapmen who were bound out to Iceland: he gave him many fair gifts of raiment, and a fair-stained saddle and a bridle withal.
Then Grettir took the bridleoff his horse; the field was unmowed, and the horse went whereas the grass was the highest.
Get out of this wood," said Gotch, stopping three yards away, his face white with rage, his bridle in one hand and his riding whip in the other.
His horse reared behind him, pulled him over, gained his bridleand fled.
Every man of us sprang to his feet and held his horse's bridle ready, when we saw one of the scouts in company with a sentinel.
Percy retorted angrily that he was quite ready to give it, and that the Prince's hold on his bridle was unnecessary.
Now is the time to take the bridle out of Phaeton's hands, and permit him not a third time to burn the world.
Bennett had one old bridle ox called Old Crump, which had been selected to carry the children, because he was slow and steady.
He got a bridle and tried her at once, and then there was a scene of rearing, jumping and kicking that would have made a good Buffalo Bill circus in these days.
As we neared those hills it seemed to us that there were no Boers in possession, and that nothing would come of the ride after all, and we drew bridle and started to discuss the situation.
They strip him bare to the waist, and put a bridle on his head; the bit is jammed into his mouth, and firmly buckled there, and then the circus begins.
Bridle to bridle our sons will ride With the best that Britain has bred, And all we ask is an open field And a soldier's grave for our dead.
He is standing in the wintry sunlight just in front of my tent as I am writing, one hand on the bridle of his horse, rapping out Dutch oaths with a strong Cork accent to a nigger who has not groomed his pet animal properly.
Upon reaching the other side of the river, he obtained a fleet horse and stood ready, bridle in hand, straining his eyes in the darkness to catch sight of the signal-lights.
He helped with the ploughing and often rode the family pony to the mill, using a rope for a bridle and a bag of corn, wheat, meal, or flour for a saddle.
Then something slid along the ground on the right side of the pony, ran a few feet, let go of the bridle and sat down limply in the brown grass.
He could only grasp her bridle and try to stop both of their ponies.
And in the mean time as he stood and fought, that lady whose was the chamber, went out slily at her postern, and without the gates she found La Cote Male Taile's horse, and lightly she gat him by the bridle and tied him to the postern.
Now will I tell you what betokeneth the hand with the candle and the bridle; that is to understand the Holy Ghost, where charity is ever, and the bridle signifieth abstinence.
And so he let him pass, and went there as the ship was, and there he alight, and took the saddle and the bridle and put the horse from him, and went into the ship.
And when he saw he might not come within the castle, he put off his bridle and his saddle, and put his horse to pasture, and set himself down at the gate like a man that was out of his wit that recked not of himself.
And anon there came an hundred knights about him and assailed him; and when he saw his horse should be slain he alight and voided his horse, and put the bridle under his feet, and so put him out of the gate.
Then he took her by the bridle and said, By the holy cross ye shall not escape me tofore ye have yielden the custom of this castle.
I dropped the bridle and threw myself into the hollow, thereby saving my horse, which jumped out.
Throwing down the bridle and letting my head fall on my breast, I rode for a long time, and at length found myself in a spot with which I was wholly unfamiliar.
Werner clung on to his bridle with both hands, and we set off.
At length they approached the slope; Grushnitski took hold of the bridle of the Princess's horse, and then I heard the conclusion of their conversation: "And you wish to remain all your life in the Caucasus?
I took Princess Mary's horse by the bridle and led it into the water, which came no higher than its knees.
At the same moment a man leaped and seized her bridle while the leader cinched her feet under her horse's belly.
At the end he overtook her, and, anticipating her whirl, caught her bridle rein.
She was practically invisible when Lee looked back, protesting, as Gordon grabbed her bridle and pulled her beast alongside.
Fortunately, at the very moment this stinging remark was made, Phil Noble dashed up to the front gate, flung his bridle over the hitching-post, and lifted his hat from a very warm brow.
If Miss Oliver refuses to bridle her tongue, and persists in interrupting the business of the meeting, the Chair will be obliged to remove her,' said Geoffrey, with chilling emphasis.
And, as he pulled up the bridle with his left hand, he wiped away the tears that had collected in his eyes, and, casting many a look back to the cottage, cantered slowly home.
The reins, bit, and bridle of this wonderful beast, is a small steel handle, which applies or withdraws the steam from its legs or pistons, so that a child might manage it.
The horse walked slowly over the soft turf; its rider, lost in thought, had dropped the bridle upon its neck.
She would talk the moon out of the sky, and, I verily believe, would seize and hang upon the horse's bridle if she saw any danger of his leaving before she had finished what she had to say.
Come back along the road a bit," he exclaimed, as he got off his horse and gave the bridle to one of the troopers.
Durham sprang from the saddle, slipped his bridle over a post, and stepped up the short flight of stairs.
The jerk she gave the bridle brought her horse back on his haunches, and Durham was a couple of lengths past her before he could bring his horse round.
Barebacked, many with the bridle scarcely secure, all without weapons, the men of Waroona raced pell-mell down the road.
When he turned she was allowing her horse to walk, the bridlehanging loose.
Then, as though a mask had fallen from her, the expression of her face changed and she leaned towards him, laying her hand on his bridle arm.
He pulled the bridle with a jerk and rode steadily until he was clear of the range.
He threw the bridle reins over the horse's neck and was preparing to mount, when Alf started forward as if to help him, but I clutched him so vigorously that he turned upon me and asked what I meant.
Ayoub, only too glad to find a listener, brightened up as he slung his long bridleround his neck, and let his horse follow his own pace, that his hands might be free to accompany his tongue.
They led the way to where the Arab was resting among the bales, with his bridle in his hand.
The otherbridle should be knotted loosely, and should lie on the horse’s neck.
A lady, till very skilful, should ride with one bridle only at a time.
The reason is that he invariably rides with one bridle and two hands, instead of two bridles and one hand.
His left hand then becomes his bridle hand, and that hand must hold the reins in such a manner as will require the least possible aid from the sword hand to shorten them as occasion may require.
To practise the indications of the hands, take the bridlewhich is attached to the chair at full length (Fig.
