Pack-horses were then in general use for conveying merchandise, and the prevailing manner of travelling was on horseback.
Horses were no longer to be seized without the consent of the owners; and a traveller if kept waiting half an hour without being supplied might hire a horse wherever he could.
Mr. Repton, the clerk to the turnpike trustees, urged that the narrow wheels cut up the road more than those of heavy carriages, and that such contrivances for evading toll and the keeping of horses were increasing.
The wild-horses were mounted; each carried an Indian naked to the waist--his painted body glaring red in the moonlight, and terrible to behold.
Involuntarily I raised my eyes, fancying from these words that the horses were in sight; but no; the speaker was riding forward, leaning over in his saddle, with looks fixed upon the ground.
As a result of this immense traffic, hotels sprung up all along the road, where relays of horses were kept, and where passengers were supplied with meals.
Coaches were overturned and passengers were maltreated; horses were injured, drivers were chastised and personal property ruined.
A great number of horses were grazing in the vicinity, many of them doubtless captured in marauding excursions.
Numbers of horses were grazing in the neighborhood of the camp, or straying at large in the prairie; a sight most acceptable to the hunters.
Here among the rocks and precipices they saw gangs of that mountain-loving animal, the black-tailed deer, and came to where great tracks of horses were to be seen in all directions, made by the Indian hunters.
Now only 13 horses were left, and the loads would soon be too heavy for the survivors.
About 200 mules were pressed into this service in addition to the railway, and the Highlanders and the artillery horses were employed in the carriage of heavy shell to the front, a duty which greatly distressed them.
Horses were a natural theme, and the Russians expressed admiration of some of those present, and were probably rather astonished at their good condition.
The trade did not go on so briskly as yesterday, only 8 horses were bought, one of which was an unbroken in lame mare to kill, as she was fit for nothing else.
A few more Indians visited us but only 4 horses were traded & two of these are young ones not broke in.
Away I clambered and ran to the nearest height--there was a huge black monster, the size of a bullock, coming from the direction of the lake, and tearing up the opposite ridge towards where the horses were picketed.
Horses were ready in the corral, and saying adios to the fat family, we galloped, away.
Horses were soon at the door, and passing beside the now-deserted booths and shade, we once more became exposed to the burning glare of the tropical sun.
The first soldiers and the best horses were assigned, therefore, to Kanneberg.
Countless herds ofhorses were neighing on the adjoining meadows.
During this noise the echoes of shots and the tramp of horses were heard, and into the barn rushed a Swedish officer of cavalry.
Horses were brought, and they moved on at a trot, the general at the head.
Horses were tethered to the driftwood strewed along the beach; packs and saddles were heaped on the banks awaiting the canoes that were to carry them over.
One evening I stood on a knoll overlooking the meadow where the horses were feeding; the chief's horses were there, and mine with them.
Shortly afterward, my horses were equipped, and Cleopatra being in fine trim, was bucking furiously in the sand-bed where I had mounted.
In another hour, my horses were saddled, and I was having a drink of tea and a bit of brownie in the men's hut.
The movement was a most popular one, and gifts of horses were sent in from every direction.
At the sound of the signal trumpets the hostile parties rushed to the encounter, meeting in the centre of the lists with a shock that hurled three of the Spaniards from their saddle, while four of their antagonists’ horses were slain.
He had several frigates made ready in the port of Cadiz, the royal carriages were ordered to be in readiness, and relays of horses were provided on the road.
The carriages remained loaded in the palace court-yard; the relays of horses were kept up; all the indications were suspicious.
In remote sections of the American Republic, like the pampas of the State of Brazil and the mountain regions of the State of Peru, horses were frequently to be seen, but seldom employed as beasts of burden.
Horses were raised in 1975 for food supplies alone.
The great, cumbersome hearse had disappeared, and in the line of carriages that followed the small, light electric hearse, no horses were to be seen.
In 1999 plenty of horses were yet to be found in the haunts of civilization.
As a string of race-horses were out at exercise one morning, one of them bolted and came into collision with some obstacle which threw him down, seriously injuring him, and killing the lad who was riding him.
In some cases there was so much difficulty in filling up stages that it was repeatedly necessary to send orders that if no horses were to be found to take the coach over a certain stage, to forward it by post horses.
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