Others were mounted, carrying flaming torches aloft, the restive horses plunging in frantic terror of the fiery furnace in the depths of the brake, the leaping sheets of flame, the tumultuous clouds of smoke.
There is a common error, both in theory and practice, with regard to therestive horse.
A pulling horse may be ridden with one or both reins tied, also a restive horse; his usual mode of resistance is running back and rearing, because from fear of his falling backward chastisement usually ceases then.
The poor brute is set down as restive and in fact becomes more or less a misanthrope for the rest of his days.
Set them on a finely broken horse, on a colt, or a restive horse, and they become helpless children--the powerless prisoners of the brutes they bestride.
For if we all rode on their principle, which is the true principle, any groom or moderately good rider could break any colt or ride any restive horse.
No horse becomes restive in the colt-breaker’s hands; nor do any remain so when placed in his hands.
Some British statesmen regarded it as a happy circumstance that the colonists, already restive under their administration, had no foreign power at hand to aid them in case they struck for independence.
They too were loaded with revolutionary debts calling for heavy taxes upon an already restive population.
Mrs. Constantine and others in the parish were challenging her authority, even the Choir boys were scarcely so subservient as they had been, and, worst of all, Paul himself was strangely restive and unquiet.
She pulled it up as a driver drags back a restive horse.
In her solitude, Katharine remembered many a wise lesson and kindly precept that old Mr. Thrasher had taught her when she was restivein her first imprisonment.
The stage was not in, and Tom sat in magnificent state by his foreign friend, snapping his whip and holding in his horse, which was made restive by the noise, with great force.
The iron-hearted New England sailors on that deck, grew restive as caged lions, while the tumult swelled louder and louder around them.
Jasper Penny grew restive under the unusual restraint of his position.
At this a restive state followed; personally he had no confidence in the sacrifice of individual aims and happiness.
Curbing his restive horse, and waving a kiss to the bright faces pressed against the frosty pane, his clear au revoir!
It was with the Achaeans as with young horses, which go quietly with their usual riders, but grow unruly and restive under strangers.
The soldiers there, however, who had been restive and unruly before, now openly displayed their mutinous temper.
Anne and her ministers did not approve of his scheme, and the Virginians becoming restive under his administration, he was recalled.
Charley was restive when walking the plank, but, using all the philosophy he possessed, he soon decided that the hubbub in the steam-pipe was harmless, and his footing on deck secure.
Suzette had listened in a restive silence, while Putney was talking with her sister.
It did not seem to be working normally; he could govern it, but it was like something trying to get away from him, like a headstrong, restive horse.
He had been growing restive under this examination; his tone had become more and more sullen.
Aglionby was growing restive under the cross-examination.
Fortunately they now became so restive that they took all the man's attention, so I cranked the car like lightning, jumped in and got away.
He appeared daily to grow more restive and moody, and one day, taking his bow and arrows, left the lodge and never returned.
He was restive in his seclusion, and showed a fondness for visiting remote places.
The colored races never welcomed white predominance and were alwaysrestive under white control.
The negroes have been rapidly growing more restive under these discriminations, and unpleasant episodes like race-riots, rapings, and lynchings are increasing in South Africa from year to year.
Under sufferings of body or mind he seldom complained; but, during the last year of his life, he became more restive and impatient.
More than once Ramona stumbled and nearly fell, and Baba was impatient and restive at the strange inequalities under his feet.
Baba and Benito, at first restive and indignant, soon made up their minds to work.
Felipe, oddly enough, was more restive under it than Ramona.
Under this treatment Carry was becoming restiveand impatient.
She knew that the pursuit of Truth was to her, and to every rebel against the Beaminsters, the restive Tiger.
Meanwhile I shall be the most perfect wife, the most perfect mother, and when the Tiger is restive there'll be the youngest Seddon to put it all into.
So bridle your restive Alexandrian tongues, and let me tell you that my colleague from Rome is in the closest intimacy with Hadrian.
He sat his piebald stallion with no heed to its restive prancing.
Spirited and proud, restive under comparisons which he had never heard but always dreaded to hear.
The restive swaying of the body brought to the old gentleman's mind an incident he once had seen at a circus, when an elephant, fretted by its ankle chain, rocked from foot to foot in sullen disquiet.
