The charger rushed furiously on; but the Woodman caught the bridle as he passed, and with some difficulty reined him in; while one of the footmen lifted the young gentleman to the ground, and placed him at the foot of a tree.
The charger leaped, and down the road clattered girl and horse, she swaying perilously.
For reply the guerrilla chief wheeled his charger and caught the bridles of the two horses that the girls rode.
I pulled up, therefore, and had dismounted to take my observations, when my brute of a charger gave the bridle a twitch, jerked itself free, and was off in an instant over hedges and ditches.
I mounted, therefore, and rode slowly away, saving my good charger as much as possible, for the morning's work had already told somewhat heavily upon him.
Yet these were only moments; he would rouse himself up, like a dozing charger at the sound of the trumpet, and shake off the creeping weight.
One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung!
When on my goodly chargerborne Thro' dreaming towns I go, The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The streets are dumb with snow.
By torch and trumpet fast array'd Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry.
The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away.
A native syce from the Artillery lines led my charger into the little compound of my tiny bungalow.
A numerous herd gathered round about, eager to enter and share the feast, but the fiery charger would not permit them to approach near enough to crop the flowers and herbage.
I saw in my vision a beautiful pasture covered with grass and flowers, and a noble charger feeding therein.
In the early dusk he saw General Forrest--his own height and the proportions of his charger King Phillip distinguishable even in that melee--gathering about him a nucleus of resistance as they battled toward the city.
The townspeople knew him likewise, and many were slinking away even before he spoke, as his charger stood pawing the ground.
The people in the yard of the mansion parted, and the General himself walked proudly out of the gate to the curb, where his charger was pawing the gutter.
There was a certain thrill and a slight twitching of the head, such as a charger makes at the first volley in battle--nothing more, not even the quiver of an eyelid.
Down to that moment her breath had been coming and going in hot gasps, and she had felt a dryness in her throat; but every symptom of nervousness suddenly disappeared, and she threw up her head like a charger in battle.
If the quantity in the wash charger exceeds the quantity in the wash back, the distiller is charged upon the higher quantity; if it contains less, he must pay according to the wash back, as being the larger quantity.
Early the next morning I would saddle my charger and go and bring them to the packing corral.
One of them showed Dick bearing on a spirited charger the clasped form of the heroine, whom he had abducted.
Probably he had been on picket duty when "picked off" by some sharpshooter, and by his lifeless body his faithful and devoted charger had waited for the boy in blue who to his comrades was simply one of the "missing.
Then our leader rode before us On his war horse black as night-- Well the Cameronian rebels Knew that charger in the fight!
One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung!
One door in particular, placed cornerwise in a buttress of the outer wall, was spotted by Juggut Khan as he circled round the city on his charger at dusk on the day following their arrival.
As he trudged through the blood-hot dust in clumsy riding-boots and led his charger on the left flank of the guns, Harry Bellairs fumed and fretted in a way to make no man envy him.
Bellairs, and Captain O'Rourke legged his panting charger over to the roadside.
They suffered agonies from the heat, and not a little from hunger, and once or twice they were hard put to it to stop the Rajput's charger from neighing when a native pony passed along the nearby road.
He turn'd hischarger as he spake Upon the river shore, He gave the bridle-reins a shake, Said 'Adieu for evermore My Love!
On reaching the front, the stately charger fell into a mincing pace, sharply striking the ground behind it with its prancing hoofs, and nodding its head as if saluting the host, which broke with one accord into a loud shout of "Eljen!
I should like to have a look at them myself," cried he, hastily ordering his heavy charger to be saddled; "possibly the enemy has come out to entice us nearer.
Then rode Geraint into the castle court, His charger trampling many a prickly star Of sprouted thistle on the broken stones.
The disappearance of the Great Horse as a charger was very slow, however.
The book was probably of little use to posterity, for by that time the day of the Great Horse as a charger was very near its close, if not quite at an end.
