He desired to see whether there were signs of folk having been there since that November night when the horseman whom he had taken for Captain Grylls had ridden back to inquire after his lost packet.
Nor had the gossamer and the dew shone for long in the sunlight before he saw a horseman ride out from the gate of Thorn, and push on slowly toward the forest track.
As they trotted downhill a solitary horseman came creeping up a side track, with his cloak blowing about him and his beaver over his nose.
He impressed my childish fancy then as the handsomest and finest horseman I had ever seen--the beau-ideal of a soldier.
Almost directly after that Minna started again and cried: "There is another horseman coming from the opposite direction.
The on-coming horseman was now in full sight of us on the slope of the white hill, the moonlight showing up the figures of both horse and rider, as he turned to look behind him, and sat listening intently.
She has escaped from that villain, and I believe that the horseman you can hear coming up the hill now is the man himself coming in pursuit of her.
At this moment, a horseman was seen approaching from the immediate battle-field.
A short time before the action commenced, a horseman was perceived advancing rapidly from Charlestown, towards the American redoubt.
The moment that he had heard from the lads of the disaster to the 94th, the officer in command despatched a horseman to carry the news at full speed to Sir G.
Although Macgregor was not a man to allow that he had been wrong, I saw that he was anxious, and before advancing he sent on a horseman and the native guide two days' journey to see how the water held out.
They turned into this and followed a rivulet until they came to the end of the gorge, where they discovered a steep path which seemed cut out of the solid rock, and was only wide enough for one horseman to pass.
This noted doctor had a most extensive practice, and he was also a famous horseman and equestrian, owning much fine horseflesh.
Goshen track and she was in the hands of the best horseman of his time, J.
The place was partly open and partly covered with thick bushes into which a horseman could not penetrate.
Joe was interrupted at this point by the sudden appearance of a solitary horseman on the brow of an eminence not half-a-mile distant.
Then the horseman who was conversing with him again raised his right hand, but this time be held it motionless.
The appearance of the second horseman convinced White Otter that a war party was concealed behind the ridge.
Then one of the ponies snorted, and an instant later they heard the mysterious horseman galloping wildly across the plain.
The appearance of the lone horseman had filled him with all sorts of alarming suspicions.
When the horseman finally stopped, and signaled for White Otter to advance, the lad made no reply.
The second horseman waved his robe, and then spread it upon the ground.
He has something to tell about," cried Sun Bird, pointing toward a solitary horseman who was galloping toward the camp.
Later in the day as he was crossing a wide stretch of grassy prairie White Otter saw a solitary horseman watching him from the summit of a distant knoll.
As the horseman had made no attempt to conceal himself, White Otter believed that he was endeavoring to decoy him into a trap.
The horseman pledged himself by repeating the signal.
The horsemanreplied by raising his right hand to the level of his shoulder, and drawing his flat palm swiftly across his throat, which was the sign for the great Sioux nation.
The horseman who has caught it with his lasso gallops off, dragging it behind, to the nearest tent; there they strongly bind its muzzle, so that they may torture it securely, and by way of finale skin it alive.
When one sees another horseman he rides up to him; when he sees a tent he puts up at it, the only object being to have a gossip with a new person.
It was this: the horseman that had just arrived, chanced to be a messenger from the Mormons.
Through this the troop had to pass in Indian file--my particular horseman still keeping in the rear.
The hurrying horseman rode straight on; and, having arrived within a few paces of the ground occupied by the others, drew his horse to a halt.
A horseman appeared issuing from the jaws of the chasm--another, and another--until eight had filed into the open ground!
As he passed at a rapid pace, his eyes were bent forward upon the butte, or occasionally turned towards the horseman who galloped by his side.
It was a horseman who appeared upon the plain, beyond where the huntress and the chief had halted.
Texas glanced around quickly; it was a horseman trotting up the road, an officer from the cavalry post!
A horseman was racing up the road, galloping blindly ahead at full tilt.
Next morning appeared King Sharrkan amid the army of Syria, a horseman of might, a lion fierce in fight, a prow and doughty knight.
Coming slowly at first, then with sudden haste as she saw a horseman at the door.
It was evident from the obsequiousness of the attendants that the horseman was a personage of no mean importance; and indeed there was something singularly distinguished and highbred in his air and carriage.
On looking ahead I saw a horseman approaching, and meeting him he proved to one of the Quinn Brothers.
After going about a mile I saw a horseman coming from the west as fast as his horse could run.
Just as the last prisoner had arrived at Carpenter's, a lone horseman was seen approaching from the northeast.
As I was coming back from the killing to where I had left "Keno," I noticed him looking intently to the west, and on looking in that direction I saw a horseman approaching.
I looked everywhere among them for a figure with a promise of royalty--a horseman in purple, a chariot with a driver in shining brass, a stately warrior behind an orbed shield, rivalling his spear in stature.
At last they meet a horseman whom they request by signs to arrest the unhappy victim; he seizes the rope and receives a smart blow, but rescues the steward.
Crash we went right into them before they could fire another volley, and then it was horseman against footman, sabre against bayonet.
The pass was so narrow that we had to march in single file, each horseman on foot and leading his animal.
From the way he rode, the horsemanevidently knew the road well.
I call thee to observe that I have here a horse, and moreover that as a horseman I came among the Fianna.
Then I am a horsemanin thy service, Finn," said the gillie.
The druid having seen the horseman turned his eyes again to the ground and passed on, regarding him not, and the lads did likewise.
Then they followed the strange horseman into the forest by many dark and winding ways, until at last they came into a rocky ravine, where they found the mouth of a great cavern opening into the hillside.
He walked beside my donkey and told me that I was a horseman already made, and should be on the back of a black barb like Sid' Abdullah's.
The horseman bounded forward, the horse clearing the obstructions in a series of jerky little leaps.
He took one of his valets with him; the other remained with the horsemanto wait and watch.
She persuaded them of this so thoroughly, that Douglas went away without saying where, except to this third horseman just arrived, but it was close at hand; so that he might be warned in time.
She proposed to the horseman to drink something, because when he arrived Douglas had left the table.
In fact, the sentry had challenged; and, after an apparently satisfactory reply, a horseman entered the camp.
The crowd parted violently, and in the space left free a horseman appeared, galloping at full speed: he held a woman on his horse's neck with one hand, while with the other he led a filly.
Loyal Heart listened attentively; the sound approached with great rapidity, and soon the black outline of a horseman stood out in the night.
Canadian answered hoarsely, as he pointed to a horseman who was coming up at full speed, "for you love and are beloved; life is scarce beginning for you, and you may still be happy.
At the moment when the horseman came opposite to him, Loyal Heart let the lasso fly, and it fell with a whiz on the shoulders of the rider, who was roughly hurled to the ground ere he knew what was happening to him.
All at once he perceived the horseman coming towards him.
For some ten minutes the Indians and hunters stood thus, motionless and silent, in presence of each other, when suddenly a fresh horseman appeared, coming at full speed from the village.
In the wide plain before me a horseman was seen, having passed the ford of the Aguada, to advance at the top of his speed towards the British lines.
As he spoke, a crowd of horseman were seen advancing towards us at a sharp trot, their waving plumes and gorgeous aiguillettes denoting their rank as generals of division.
