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Example sentences for "riderless"

Lexicographically close words:
ride; rideing; riden; ridente; rider; riders; rides; ridest; ridet; rideth
  1. Some of the braves seized riderless ponies, leapt on their backs, and galloped off to join the throng.

  2. I seen your riderless pony hustlin' along with that crowd of yellin' Injuns at its heels.

  3. On all sides swarmed the rushing warriors mixed inextricably with riderless troop horses mad with terror.

  4. Presently a riderless pony came by, and seizing its lariat he sprang on its back.

  5. Dozens of riderless troop horses mingled with them, rushing aimlessly and tripping on dangling ropes and reins.

  6. They saw him, borne on by excitement, seize one of the riderless horses, leap into the saddle and turn his face toward the battle.

  7. Then she heard once more the tread of those riderless horses and feared for him.

  8. Riderless horses galloped out of the smoke and, with the curious attraction that horses have for the battlefield, hovered near, their empty saddles on their backs.

  9. Jack was a riderless horse (his master having been killed) at the Charge of Balaclava.

  10. And he was seen collecting about 30 riderless horses, and at the head of his troop leading them back to, I suppose, Cavalry Headquarters.

  11. Saddles emptied fast, and riderless horses, as is the manner of the poor brutes, ranged themselves on either side of the gallant leader, Lord Cardigan, and their hoofs thundered with the rest.

  12. Turning round, on seeing his riderless horse, several of the troopers saw the Prince running towards them on foot.

  13. Their companions instantly closed the gap, and drove the riderless ponies into the herd.

  14. Then the Pawnees lost hope and raced away in pursuit of the riderless ponies.

  15. Looking across the plain, they discovered a riderless pony running toward the west.

  16. A riderless pony had appeared on a knoll directly ahead of them.

  17. The first man dropped instantly; the other rode wildly for a few moments and then fell headlong, while the riderless horses galloped on for a time.

  18. As I was trying to extricate myself from the shattered regiments, I saw a riderless horse plunging toward me.

  19. Simpson, and three ponies galloped riderless as the smoke curled from three rifle barrels.

  20. Three more riderless ponies; but the Indians kept on, supposing they had drawn the total fire of the whites.

  21. Several riderless horses escaped in the mêlée; nor were they only belonging to the raiders.

  22. A riderless horse, saddled and bridled, dashed out of the darkness and galloped across them.

  23. The apparition of the riderless horse was too much; at least one-third of the Khalifa's huge army deserted, terrified.

  24. Between ten and eleven at night a riderless horse from the British or Egyptian cavalry came slowly moving, head down, towards the Dervish lines.

  25. A Mountain Pony A Mountain Pony Our stage in the San Juan Mountains had just gained the top of the grade when an alert, riderless pony trotted into view on a near-by ridge.

  26. A well-meaning tenderfoot, that afternoon in Telluride, saw a riderless pony and concluded that he had broken loose.

  27. A number of riderless ponies who were returning to Telluride accompanied Cricket and me down the winding, scene-commanding road into this picturesque mining town.

  28. He rode in among the Armenians, and felt a hollow pit in his stomach as he saw the rich saddles on two of the riderless horses, silver and mother-of-pearl inlays glistening even in the darkness of the forest.

  29. Simon squinted again and saw that each of four Armenians on horseback was leading a riderless horse.

  30. At the very head of the procession walked Henri de Puys, bareheaded but in full armor, leading Alain's riderless great horse.

  31. It took much longer than he had anticipated to come up with the riderless horse.

  32. One of the men had seen a riderless horse grazing on the mesa, and had ridden out and caught it.

  33. One of them was leading a riderless horse.

  34. And the bushes parted and a maddened horse, riderless and with blood-smears on his flank, plunged out and past the borderer.

  35. Suddenly The Dead March struck up, loud and full, bringing to Philip Marsden's memory many a sword-decked coffin and riderless charger behind which he had walked, wondering if his turn would come next.

  36. Perhaps in all his life he had never felt such genuine passion as then; certainly Belle herself was never so near to loving her husband as when she saw the awful fear come into his face at the sight of the riderless steed.

  37. A shout behind, and her husband tearing down at a mad gallop, alarmed at the return of the riderless horse.

  38. Reaching a point where he could look down into the valley below, Dave peered long and earnestly for a sight of a riderless horse.

  39. Pete, as he saw Dave leading the riderless horse.

  40. To and fro and from side to side of the vast, cloud-wreathed Mars’s Shield galloped the riderless horses.

  41. The remainder howled with rage, and, forced to stop among the riderless and plunging steeds, discharged all their guns at the daring coverer of the girl's crossing.

  42. As he drew the riderless steed towards him, and tried to make it sidle up flank to flank, its ears were moved in affright.

  43. In the meantime, the pursuers, having secured the pack animals and the riderless horses, as well as seen to the wounded, came on apace, having momentarily lost sight of their objects.

  44. Kenyon reached him just in time to catch the riderless horse which had at last freed his bridle from the weak grip of his wounded master.

  45. Broquet cut the traces of the dead horses, rushed out between the lines in the face of a fierce fire and succeeded in catching a riderless horse.

  46. Once he leaped aside to let a wounded and riderless horse gallop past, and thrice he sprang over the bodies of the dead.

  47. But the general leaped lightly to the ground, then swung his immense bulk across one of the riderless motor cycles and advanced with the surviving members of his staff.

  48. Tis a riderless horse," he added, in a second.

  49. He had snatched a coiled rope, carried by one of the tribesmen, and now ran toward the riderless horse, loosening the loop as he ran.

  50. Before them raced the riderless horse, zig-zagging to avoid the tribesmen who yelled and waved their arms at it.

  51. Then the paleface who had sniped him would mount his own pony with speed, and round up the riderless pony of that Cheyenne who had been.

  52. Five riderless ponies, running wild and lost, gave chase with neighs of protest at being left behind.

  53. Men dropped from their horses each instant, and the riderless steeds fled away.

  54. He drops from his saddle, his life-blood runs down in little rills on either side of the knoll, and his riderless horse dashes away in a panic.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riderless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.