Aramis felt obliged, therefore, to inflict upon Porthos the pain of mounting on horseback again.
How her eye, dimmed with tears, follows the king, who is riding on horseback yonder!
On our way down the staircase we saw several noteworthy bas-reliefs, and among them a very ancient one of Curtius plunging on horseback into the chasm in the Forum.
The Noble Guard ranged themselves on horseback opposite the loggia; but there was no irksome and impertinent show of ceremony and restraint upon the people.
Nothing struck one so much, in the forenoon, as the spectacle of a peasant-woman riding on horseback as if she were a man.
He must be strong and healthy and capable of undergoing hardships, at least be able to stand long days of walking, climbing, and horseback riding.
On the fifth night of his journey he limped into a wood to sleep, which wood grew not much more than two hours on horseback from our farm.
They excelled in the arts of fortification and defence; the Normans were accustomed to serve on horseback in the field, and their rude attempts could only succeed by the efforts of persevering courage.
In the field of Ceramio, fifty thousand horse and foot were overthrown by one hundred and thirty-six Christian soldiers, without reckoning St. George, who fought on horseback in the foremost ranks.
Horseback riding is an excellent remedy for the blues and the outside of a horse in the old axiom is literally very good for the inside of man or woman.
There was no sign of enlargement of the hands, though there had been a coarsening of the face which was attributed to growth and to the fact that the girl was taking much horseback exercise in all weathers.
Horseback exercise is particularly valuable; boating, especially where the man has charge of the boat himself and where he has to have his wits about him, and the various sports.
A horsebackrider must pay attention to the other animal, rather than himself, and that represents the complete diversion of mind so necessary for the health of most people.
It is doubtful whether horseback riding should ever be recommended for those who have not been accustomed to it from their youth.
Where the care of the animal is entirely taken off the rider's shoulders by a groom who brings him to a particular place and takes him afterwards, then, also, much of the benefit of horseback riding is lost.
To ask a man past forty to learn to ride horseback for the sake of exercise is nearly always a mistake.
The old expression "the outside of a horse is the {205} best thing for the inside of a man" is founded even more on the mental influence of horseback riding than its physical quality.
On the other hand, horsebackriding is one of the things that may be, and indeed often is, much abused.
It is because of the complete diversion of mind that is necessarily involved in it, that horseback riding makes such a magnificent exercise for the busy man.
If the horse, however, is old and very quiet--so that one can throw the reins on his neck and allow him to jog on for himself, then horseback riding may mean very little.
There is nothing, indeed, to bring any one in here, while the labours of locomotion except on horseback are prodigious.
The ladies at once laid aside their feminine dress, and clothed themselves like Amazons, so that they could ride astride on horseback like men.
They were generally covered with steel from head to foot, and so heavily loaded with it were they, that it was only on horseback that they could sustain themselves in battle at all.
The horseback Indian "seized him by the hair of his head and shook him until his teeth rattled.
However, he was not to be deterred from making the usual journeys to Frankfort (in March and September for the book-fairs) and rode on horseback both ways.
He came of his own accord from his home at Shadwell, five days' horseback journey through the woods.
When my father rode up on horseback I ran to tell him that the envelope had come.
Jay spent just one day in New York, and then rode on horseback up to the old farm at Rye, Westchester County, to see his father.
In Seventeen Hundred Fifty-six, he made a horseback journey on military business to Boston, stopping a week going and on the way back at New York.
Over a quarter of a century had passed since John Adams and John Jay had met on horseback out there on the New Jersey turnpike.
The young people spent a great part of their holiday on the Preston farm in ridinghorseback by daylight and by moonlight, and in exploring the old salt and sulphur springs and mines in the neighborhood.
She reported that she could see Madge and Phil, who were riding side by side, leading the horseback cavalcade.
This time the favourite hour of ten was not early enough for starting, so we were on horseback by 9.
He hummed it, and he whistled it on the clear moonlight night, when, passing on horseback through the deep ravine, he rode in haste to Weimar to visit Molly.
She would sit on horseback without a saddle, as if grown fast to the animal, and go at full gallop; nor would she spring off, even if her horse and other ill-natured ones were biting each other.
I stood there a complete prisoner while the man on horseback looked daggers at me.
I heard some one crack a whip close behind me, and saw a man on horseback coming along with nearly a dozen big dogs, who now barked in angry rage all round me.
At last he fell sick, and the doctor told him he must go out on horseback every day, and have plenty of nourishing food.
Before he could answer, a man who had just cantered up onhorseback entered and said: "Monsieur le Maire, Monsieur Duguay-Trouin is supping with Monsieur le Duc.
For in old travel, as on horseback or on foot now, you saw the country while you travelled.
Next to canal travelling, a journey on horseback is the pleasantest.
Some of these prelates, in token of the warlike duties of their diocese, engraved on their seals a knight on horseback armed at all points, brandishing in one hand a sword, and holding forth in the other the arms of the see.
With his usual zeal and hardihood he explored it on horseback and on foot.
It was in the month of March (1748), and just after he had completed his sixteenth year, that Washington set out on horseback on this surveying expedition, in company with George William Fairfax.
He set out on horseback on the 21st of June, having for military companions of his journey Major-generals Lee and Schuyler, and being accompanied for a distance by several private friends.
At this porch there is generally a group of idlers, or an old man sunning himself, or a man on horseback drinking.
It was impossible to pass round the promontory on horseback in the best of weathers; now doubly so.
I was a gentleman once, sir, and rode a-horseback after a blue greyhound, and we went near to kill a black hare.
If Adelaide was beautiful everywhere, surely she was more beautiful on horseback than anywhere else, and no one knew it better than herself.
As Charles rode very slowly towards the group, the keeper and the groom on horseback left off talking.
His next step was to procure a saddle-horse for Dolly, who preferred this to any other sort of carriage, and thereby gratified the wish of her admirer, who longed to see her on horseback in her green joseph.
My prisoner was placed on horseback in the very centre of the troops.
I have seen Napoleon ten times on horseback to once on foot, and I think that he does wisely to show himself to the troops in this fashion, for he cuts a very good figure in the saddle.
Having received his directions Pablo went off on horseback to Sarrio at daybreak to execute them, and Pena and Don Rudesindo at once proceeded to Nieva.
On horseback you think yourself somebody, but you look like a puppy-dog.
Every bush I saw I took for a figure lurking by the roadside, while solitary trees I had to pass assumed the form and shape and even movement of an enemy on horseback riding silently down to meet me.
During the whole of the first onset he moved about on horseback close in the rear of his men, and appeared to bear a charmed life.
A Gentleman in Surry that was found dead on Horseback at his own Door.
The officer who had been riding on horseback would be executed.
It lay at a distance of about five miles, so we started on horseback about three o'clock.
It was a terribly cold day, snow falling, which changed into sleet, and then into rain by the time we reached the castle, and what made things worse was that we had to ride on horseback instead of driving in carriages.
We had slept at Mizoguchi, and ascended the right bank on horseback to Sekido, where without difficulty we induced the ferryman to put us across, and rode into the town of Fuchiu to visit a well-known Shinto temple.
The party on horseback consisted of Sir Harry, Lieutenant Bradshaw and myself, with the legation mounted escort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horseback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: across; chine; col; horseback; ridge; saddle; spine; straddle
