They marched at once, the horsemen taking the foot soldiers on the crupper behind them.
Struck her full on the breast: that made her down 9 Decline her head, and touch her crupper with her crown.
Such were his case and adventure; but as regards the youngest sister whenas she was met by the Knight and seated upon the crupper of his steed, he ceased not riding with her till he reached his city and went into his citadel-palace.
The mule was timid, and started so much upon his touching the bridle, that, rising on her hind legs, she threw her rider over the crupper to the ground.
An hour afterwards the principal servants at the Castle of Godesberg were rather surprised to see the noble Lord Louis trot into the court-yard of the castle, with a companion on the crupper of his saddle.
What was preserved in the Armoury, now without stones or crystals, together with other remains found in the ancient edifice after the fire, constitute the crupper and poitrel of this horse.
Come with me," he whispered, and swinging her on to the crupper of his white horse he plunged madly into the night.
She set forth with her intended husband, riding on the crupper of his horse.
The Marquis told his serving-man to place the child on the crupper of his horse, as he had taken a fancy to him and would adopt him.
He took the child in his arms and swung her on to the crupper of his saddle.
Looking over Time's crupperand over his tail, Oh, what ages and pages there are to revise!
And they encountered, and Peredur threw the knight over his horse's crupper to the ground.
Then the youth thrust at Peredur with his lance, and Peredur turned upon him, and struck him over his horse's crupper to the ground.
Still, I think I'll try and see if I can find a couple of cruppers for these other saddles, and then we can tie the supports for the breeching to the crupper band, midway of where it runs back from the saddle.
Of course, one of them has a crupper already, but that does not amount to much.
The kicking-strap in a single harness is fastened on one shaft and passes up and over the horse's quarters through a loop in the crupper and down on the other side to the other shaft.
The sides of the horse's mouth are drawn up, and with a tight crupper to boot, the horse looks as though he were tied together at the teeth and the tail.
The saddle should be placed first well back on the horse, so that the crupper may be put under the tail without undue pulling and hauling.
The crupper keeps the saddle in place, helps materially to prevent the horse from getting his tail over the rein, and disinclines him to kick.
The crupper should be stuffed with linseed to keep it moist, and to prevent its hardening and becoming a worry to the horse.
They are fastened to the pad and run alongside the crupper to the splinter-bar and are connected by a strap across the quarters.
After the saddle is on, the crupper under the tail, and the saddle-girth loosely buckled to keep the saddle in place, then is the time to tighten up the hames.
Martha, proud of finding herself riding at the crupper of a holy man, thought only of the relic whose divine influence was to preserve her as well as her daughter from all present and future ills.
He arrived on his large horse, an animal powerful enough to carry Eidiol's wife on its crupper and in front of the saddle the young girl, whom the priest thus had an opportunity to hold in his arms.
At the word, she leaped upon the crupper with the agility of a gazelle.
Just previous to being hit by the fatal bullet, the crupper of his horse was cut by a rifle-ball, and immediately afterward another passed through the horse's mane, a little back of his ears.
A short while after he heard the rapid gallop of a horse approaching behind him; turning he saw a man with a woman on his horse's crupper fleeing before three armed knights who followed at a distance.
Its head, neck, chest and part of its crupper were protected by an iron caparison--a heavy armor that the robust animal carried as easily as its master wore his.
XIII Claes, when he parted from his brother, mounted his donkey once more, taking Ulenspiegel on the crupper behind him.
XI The year had been a good one, and Claes bought a donkey and nine measures of peas for seven florins and one morning he mounted on the beast, and Ulenspiegel clung to the crupper behind him.
A faint heart lost his lady, a knight unhorsed his horse, and a victorious competitor his sash of knighthood, which was immediately tied to the crupper of his fair one’s palfrey.
The reins and crupper of her palfrey were decked with ribbons, blue and white, and he bore nodding feathers upon his head-piece.
The load was then tied closely to the crupper of the saddle and the boy was ready to start on his homeward trip.
The last I noticed of him was at the crupper of a couple of the rascals that, I'll engage, before now he has set his mark upon.
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