Mr. Sampson will begin his famous feats of horsemanship next Monday, at a commodious place built for that purpose in a field adjoining the Three Hats at Islington, where he intends to continue his performance during the summer season.
My boyhood was therefore passed, as it should be, in horsemanship and hunting, and learning to fight.
While not the equals of the Comanches in horsemanship they were good riders and as they raced toward the encampment, showing every trick they knew, the spectacle was well worth watching.
Shortly after daylight the opposite hill suddenly swarmed with dashing warriors, whose horsemanship was a revelation to some of the tenderfeet.
After dinner Joan so charmed the Duke with her horsemanship and lance practice in the meadows by the Castle of Chinon whither the King also had come to look on, that he made her a present of a great black war-steed.
She ordered half an hour's horsemanship drill for the novices then, and appointed one of the veterans to conduct it.
The first competitor Was king Eumelus, whom the art of horsemanship did grace, Son to Admetus.
This master of horsemanship and subduer of wild and even dangerous cattle, has been described in so many ways that a great difference of opinion exists as to what he was, and what he is.
Between the cowboy and his pet pony there is generally a bond of sympathy and a thorough understanding, without which the marvelous feats of horsemanship which are performed daily would be impossible.
The Elchee on his return from the first mission, when riding one day near a small encampment of Afshar families, expressed doubts to his mehmandar, a Persian nobleman, as to the reported boldness and skill in horsemanship of their females.
I was adopted into the family of one of their chiefs, who carefully instructed me in horsemanship and the use of arms.
It was one of the most ingenious feats of horsemanship that I have ever witnessed.
You had much to say about my poor horsemanshipat supper.
He had been a man of a violent nature, famed over all the South for his feats of horsemanship and swordsmanship.
Without these auxiliaries all my horsemanship was useless.
It is well that you have not really an opportunity of trying your horsemanship on any wilder steed than our sober Davy, or Old Hundred.
Can justice produce injustice any more than the art of horsemanship can make bad horsemen, or heat produce cold?
In Italy in the 16th century schools of horsemanship were established at Naples, Rome and other chief cities; thither flocked the nobility of France, Spain and Germany; and Henry VIII.
The Renaissance introduced the cultivation of horsemanship as an art, with regular conditions and rules, instead of merely its skilful practice for utility and exercise.
The middle ages had seen chivalry developed into a social distinction, and horsemanship into a form of knightly prowess.
Under the incentive of love and excitement--heightened by a tinge of jealousy--all Wahneenah's former skill in horsemanship returned to her.
It was a rough school in which to learn so dangerous an art, but it sufficed; and that one day's ride did more to help Gaspar and Kitty to good horsemanship than all the instruction they afterward received.
She hated him and she hoped that he might die, but she was forced to admire the wonderful horsemanship that she was watching.
But there was no time to dwell on the wonderful horsemanship or training of the men.
His horsemanship was superb and her eyes glowed as they followed him.
She had learned horsemanship and the use of arms and had thoroughly studied the sciences of the Arabs; moreover, she had gotten by heart all the dragomanish[FN#49] tongues and indeed she was a ravishment to mankind.
Mount, my good De l'Orme, and shame these merry fools, by showing them some better horsemanship than they can practise themselves.
To obtain a merit badge forHorsemanship a scout must 1.
But to the fashionables of the world the art of horsemanship is a beautiful and admirable accomplishment, a means of healthful exercise.
His system of warfare, which bears a striking similarity to that which prevailed on the American frontier a few years ago, is the finest school for the development of military horsemanship since the days of Saladin and Cœur de Leon.
The young man was dressed with somewhat greater taste and richness; and there was something in his air and his wondrous horsemanship which would have distinguished him at once from his two followers without the accessories of dress.
Royalty also visited the place: "Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of York was at the Three Hats, Islington, to see the extraordinary feats of horsemanship exhibited there.
The masterly horsemanship of the Disinherited Knight enabled him for a few minutes to keep at sword's point his three antagonists, but it was evident that he must at last be overpowered.
Certainly not nerve, for there are few fields too scanty to furnish examples of men who possess every quality of horsemanship except daring.
Up go their heads to avoid the pain, till that effort of self-defence becomes a habit, and it takes weeks of patience and fine horsemanship to undo the effects of unnecessary ill-usage for an hour.
This is, I think, one of the most important points in horsemanship as applied to riding across a country.
By the time he has acquired these accomplishments, the horsemanship will have come of itself.
Strategy is here required no less than tactics, and horsemanshipeven as regards the bridle, is quite as much a matter of head as hand.
It would be endless to enter on all the different styles of horsemanship in which fine hands are of the utmost utility.
The handsome old warrior who looked no less distinguished than he was, had, as we know, a cork leg, and its oscillation no doubt interfered with those niceties of horsemanshipin which he delighted.
The first principle of horsemanship is to make the animal believe we can rule its wildest mood; the next, to prevent, at any sacrifice, the submission of this plausible theory to proof.
And there lay the giant Trojan, while the battle raged above him, mighty and mightily fallen, and all his horsemanship forgot.
When the gifts were set in order, Achilles rose and invited all who prided themselves in their horsemanship to take part in the friendly contest.
The Great King came on at a foot's pace, reining his steed with that craft of practised horsemanship which outlasts failing sight, lost activity, and bodily powers impaired by age.
One such display of skill in horsemanship seemed enough to regain for their reckless ruler all the popularity that had been withdrawn.
