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Example sentences for "full gallop"

  • The Boers, feeling certain that the party was unarmed, did not trouble themselves to open fire at a distance, but rode forward in a clump at full gallop.

  • I kept on till it was too dark for me to make out my pursuers, some of whom were not more than three hundred yards behind me; then, while my horse was going at full gallop I leapt of?

  • The man who had fallen was instantly picked up by one of his comrades, and all rode off at full gallop, but before they could get beyond the range of the Mausers each of the lads had fired two more shots.

  • Hearing my answer, the officer gave orders for two Hussars to get on horseback, a fresh one is given me, and I am taken at full gallop to Rimini, where the officer on guard has me escorted at once to the prince.

  • He would sometimes ride ten or twelve stages at full gallop, utterly ruining the horses.

  • I put my hand in my pocket and gave the man my card with my name and address, and telling him that that was what his master wanted, I ordered the postillion to drive off at a full gallop.

  • It represents a chariot, drawn by four animals at full gallop, which appear to be intermediate between tigers and panthers.

  • Denon employed nearly twenty minutes on horseback in going round it, at full gallop.

  • He was counting with anxiety the minutes that passed, when at that moment there echoed upon his ear the hoof-strokes of another horse, going at full gallop.

  • With this purpose in view, he returned along the route at full gallop.

  • The animal, profiting by the opportunity when the three horsemen had alighted to look after her spilt rider, had headed about, and taken the back track at full gallop!

  • As it was, he had advanced towards them into the open ground; and going at full gallop, under the clear moonlight, his party had been discovered by the bandits long before they could get within shot range.

  • Moreover, he had ridden a stretch of many miles--most of the way at full gallop, and all of it at a pace with which no pedestrian could possibly have kept up!

  • Then laying on the lash with all his might, he pressed forward, at full gallop, in the direction of the "great house.

  • As if stimulated by a sense of the outrage, as also by a half-formed purpose of retaliation, the young adventurer gave the whip to his shaggy steed, and dashed onward at full gallop.

  • Going, as he appeared to be, at full gallop, in five minutes more, or in half the time, the horseman should be in their midst.

  • At this point, the horse had been still going at full gallop; and his course, as it ran in a direct line, was the more easily followed.

  • The sounds came from a distance, outside the village; the strokes were those of a horse at full gallop.

  • We went on thus at full gallop till we reached a very broad ravine, over which the Indian could not leap.

  • I have frequently seen him at full gallop catch a mule by the foot which I indicated.

  • Antonio coiled up the lasso again, and followed him over hill and vale, over grass and boulders, at full gallop, just as the tornado darts from the mountain into the plain.

  • This consisted in the rider throwing his hat upon the ground, and then recovering it from the saddle, while his horse swept past at full gallop.

  • A slight touch of the spur set the noble brute in motion, and in another second he was in full gallop, and heading directly for the cliff!

  • I will check my horse at full gallop on the brow of yonder cliff!

  • The next exhibition consisted in riding at full gallop to the edge of a deep "zequia" which passed near the spot.

  • But Gabriel Nietzel was nowhere to be seen; only the Chamberlain von Götz was there, and he got into the carriage, which bore the deadly sick Prince at full gallop to the palace.

  • David whipped up his horses, and set off at full gallop.

  • These you will mount, and ride at full gallop to Spandow, where Herr von Rochow will be ready to receive your grace.

  • Taking advantage of their scare, I put spurs to my horse, and dashed off at full gallop.

  • He handed me a folded paper, and immediately darted off at full gallop.

  • He stopped, and they closed round him, and soon afterwards, probably by his orders, four men came out of the crowd, and approached our ramparts at full gallop.

  • The proceedings of the day terminated by some tours de force of the Sikh cavalry and their officers; wrenching tent-pegs from the ground with their lances, and cutting oranges with their sabres when at full gallop.

  • I need hardly say that we always went at full gallop.

  • We started this morning at six, and travelled, as we have always done, at full gallop on the level or down hill, and with the aid of four buffalos in front of our six ponies when we came to mount steep hills, of which there are many.

  • Proul-Tamba rose, and after having invited us to take tea in his house, which stood on our road, sprang on his horse, and returned home at full gallop.

  • If he meets any traveller, he takes him on his crupper, and vanishes forthwith at full gallop.

  • Presently the Lisper returned, his hands filled with bits of paper, on each of which was printed the figure of a horse, saddled and bridled, and going at full gallop.

  • Just as we were going to bed, two horsemen, having belts adorned with bells, came into the courtyard of the inn; they stopped for a few minutes, and then set off again at full gallop.

  • As we were remounting, we saw a horseman advancing towards us at full gallop.

  • It went at full gallop-- out and in, out and in.

  • Then it ran at full gallop in and out among the other animals, the herd became confused and ran hither and thither, and Pelle had to relinquish his pursuit for a time while he gathered them together.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full gallop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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