Cantering up, he was directly after one of a group helping to free a lady from her fallen horse, which was struggling frantically to extricate itself from a ditch into which both had come down.
So sometimes cantering sometimes walking, they reached the river at about one o'clock in the morning.
Onward they swept, cantering now until they approached the town.
On November 20th, Don Bernardo Yorba died, bequeathing to numerous children and grandchildren an inheritance of one hundred and ten thousand dollars' worth of personal property, in addition to thirty-seven thousand acres of land.
There it remained until perhaps 1868, when it was transferred to the northwest corner of Main and Market streets.
Such things as perching dizzily atop a horse's back, even cantering in graceful insouciance, seemed far, far away.
Tess wascantering along on rawboned Nellie in beautiful unconcern.
It came upon her, in all its dazzling possibilities, while she was cantering along the old road which runs back of Smith's woods.
I longed for darkness, the din and glare; longed for my tent and the gaping faces, for the smoky wind to fan my cheek as I bobbed cantering round the ring.
One can see them cantering about on the plain just across the river, where thousands of their cattle are grazing.
On the east side of the line we patrol the plain nearly to Jacobsdal, and often lie in the grass or sit among the rocks and watch the little figures of Boers cantering along the road that leads south by the river.
Nothing moves on the plain save here and there a lonely prowling horseman, cantering on, or dismounted and peering through his glass.
Its scouts, that is, among which, if you belong to our corps, you will probably find yourself, go cantering on ahead.
Assure him, with my compliments--" He was interrupted by the clatter of hoofs, and two gentlemen on horseback came cantering up the road and drew rein suddenly.
They were about to march him off, when a voice hailed them, and up rode a general officer, with two dragoons cantering behind him for escort.
I don't believe you could hit a runaway railway truck or a cantering furniture-van, let alone a horse with a man on its back.
You may scare them into cantering down into the midst of the Boers!
For just then the cantering of their ponies had been heard by the watch-dog at one of the farms, and it went on baying at them till the sounds grew faint.
I had been asleep for hours, but was awakened by the clatter of horses, and I opened my eyes to see a dozen Uhlans come cantering up and surround our carriage.
A horseman had turned into the street, and camecantering toward the house.
I was cantering along nicely down the road by the shore, when suddenly, from behind some rocks and bushes, three men leaped out at me.
He stepped back off the road and from his covert he could see a squad of cavalry headed by the captain and a sailor cantering past.
This was done, and the two were soon cantering further and further from the waggons.
The "nice-looking boy" meanwhile was cantering homeward in the twilight, building castles in the air at a furious rate.
For Lad was canteringgleefully toward him, carrying something dark and heavy between his jaws.
Lad would watch her vanish up the drive,--their fiery little son, Wolf, cantering gleefully at her side.
To avoid this grave error, the first lessons in walking and cantering should be given to the pupil on a led horse, without taking hold of the bridle; and this should be repeated in learning to leap.
Coffee and Chicory ran and bounded and spun their kiris in the air, catching them again, and then running on beside the canteringhorses of their young masters, while their father ran beside Mr Rogers' big bay.
You would hardly have guessed Sir Bloomer to be sixty-five; at least, not as he appeared before the world on that cantering grey horse.
See him cantering in the Park--an animal so well broke as that would make John Gilpin himself appear a fine horseman.
While this talk went on, Clarence was cantering down the lower end of the Ute Pass on his way to St. Helen's.
When cantering keep your knees firmly pressed against the pommels--sit close to the saddle, like a part of your horse--and throw your shoulders well back.
Cantering is a very nice pace for park or road riding, when the ground is soft, and not cut up by stones.
Many lady riders imagine that cantering is a safer as well as a pleasanter pace at which to travel, than trotting (whether fast or slow) can ever be.
A moment later, both riders were canteringtoward the wood, apparently in excited, earnest conversation.
Their graceful and coquettish ways were most taking; we occasionally threw stones at them to keep them at a safe distance, but after cantering prettily away, they would follow us again and come within a few yards.
Half-a-dozen sepoys with matchlocks, to which were attached red flags, slung over their shoulders, were cantering gaily up the hillside only a few yards in front of us.
Her eyes absently followed two young fallow-deer in the park, cantering away in a series of hops on their long stiff legs.
This exclamation was caused by the sudden appearance of a smartly-dressed officer, with glittering epaulettes and waving plume, cantering down before the British lines.
They had reached the front of the house, and were about to go in, when a boy on horseback came cantering up the avenue, and handed a telegram to Edward.
High above him a horseman, faint as the shadow of a bird, made his way cantering briskly.
A hundred and fifty were cantering down a steep muddy lane; a horseman who had come across the field strove to open a strong farm-gate.
There he had seen for the first time the panorama of slanting sunshades, patent leather shoes, horses cantering in the dusty sunlight, or proudly grouped, the riders flicking the flies away with gold-headed whips.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
