We sat comfortably, and in that mood of secretly exhilarated mental activity which is induced by riding on a fast train.
The term Nag, applied to the active riding or trotting horse, is derived from the A.
In many cases special terms are made; the principal owners usually have a claim on a rider's services, and for this call as much as L5000 per annum, exclusive of the usual riding fees, has been given.
In riding to hounds a man usually steadies his horse at a fence, and in almost every case the animal "dwells" more or less after the leap.
The French military school thus became the model for Europe, though the English style remained in opposition, forming a sort of compromise with the ordinary method of riding across country.
Queen Elizabeth is reputed to have been an accomplished horsewoman, and to have indulged in riding late in life.
It has been supposed indeed that the art of riding was known in Homer's own time, because it occurs in comparisons.
The high hackney action is uncomfortable in a riding horse.
I didn't seem to be able to get going in 1915 after I pitched that no-hitter early in April, and late in the season McGraw started riding me.
After I had taken about as much riding as I could stand, I asked him to trade me if he thought I was so bad.
Allah upon thee, O my brother, acquit me of what I have done with thee in the way of riding and so forth.
So they mounted, marvelling at the greatness of the dogs, and rode forth, attended by the four Wazirs and a host of apes like swarming locusts, some riding on dogs and others afoot till they came to the sea-shore.
They carried the news to King Teghmus, who mounted at once and riding to the palace, found his son lying senseless on the ground; whereat he wept knowing that the swoon was caused by the loss of his love, and sprinkled rose- water on his face.
Janshah marvelled to see them riding horses, and was startled at the vastness of their bulk and the strangeness of their semblance; for some of them had heads like bulls and others like camels.
Then he mounted again and, riding to the house of the late Wazir Shamhur, laid hands on all that was therein and transported it to his own abode.
She often saw before her the bent figure, that looked tired, riding alone into the luminous grey; starting thus early that his act, humble and determined, might not be known by her.
Presently they saw that they had come out of the trackless waste and that though still a long way from the city they were riding on a desert road which had been trodden by multitudes of feet.
The camp was struck once more and they were riding through the desert.
It was evident that both he and his men were riding in from some tremendous journey.
Perhaps his dogged determination about the riding had touched her more than she was aware.
Now for the first time she was on it in the night, riding on the crowded shadows of its palms.
Quite near in the river bed she saw an Arab riding towards the desert upon a prancing black horse.
She had a native passion for a good horse, and riding was one of the joys, and almost the keenest, of her life.
Many horsemen were riding forth from the city to take the cool of the approaching night.
At first it was merely a moving blot, formless and small, but as it drew nearer she saw that it was a horseman riding slowly, perhaps stealthily, across the sand.
Both the Duchess Isabella's ladies and mine were riding in these chariots.
He took Isabella and Beatrice outriding in the park, and showed them some of the beauties of that wide domain, which in the French chronicler's eyes seemed more like the garden of Eden than any earthly spot.
When the people saw the well-known form of their old duke riding through the streets, clad in rich crimson damask, their enthusiasm knew no bounds.
We spend the intervening days in riding and driving in the park or else through the streets of Milan, which has been made so beautiful that if you were to come back here to-day, you would no longer know the place.
After riding in state up the Via Grande and the Via degli Sablioni to the Castello they visited the Duomo, attended mass, and made an offering at the altar.
For a while Beatrice spent her time riding or hunting about the country with Messer Galeazzo and her ladies, and remained in happy ignorance of the true state of affairs.
In the country they spent their time in riding races and galloping up behind their ladies at full speed, so as to make them fall off their horses.
Then came Annibale Bentivoglio, the young husband of Lucrezia d'Este, with the Bologna knights, riding on a triumphal car drawn by stags and unicorns, the badge of the House of Este.
Oliver became a lord riding his finest horse, his property, his right.
She reached into the luggage and held up the riding whip.
If he came too soon or not at her number, she whipped him with a riding quirt.
The men had been attacked while ridingthe range, only McIntire being armed.
There is a prediction among us Hebrews that, when our Great King shall come, he will make his triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding upon an ass.
From this point of the journey Marduk insisted on riding ahead with Manasseh, lest new dangers might await them.
Waiting only long enough to watch the men come slowly back to their estufas, we left our housetop and were soon riding slowly away.
That fat Rhoden--a cousin of my wife's--broke his leg inriding him at a hunt.
Riding is always dangerous; my father was killed by being thrown from his horse.
Meanwhile, Treurenberg is riding along the road to X----.
Papa had beenriding with her,--riding a skittish, vicious horse, against which he had been warned.
He is riding a beautiful pony, chestnut, with a rather dandified long tail and a bushy mane.
In order to watch the motion of the waves more closely I stationed myself, with permission of the sailors, on a projection near to the bowsprit, and I imagined I was riding a dolphin, with the salt waves splashing round me.
So, a black cloak, heavy and ample, a broad-brimmed hat, and a pair of ridingboots of untanned leather were my further equipment.
This night-riding in so lonely a fashion is little to my taste," she told me sullenly.
A company of some dozen men-at-arms it was, riding briskly along the tracks we had left behind us in the snow.
That night we heard the story of how he had performed the feat of riding all the way from Rome in four-and-twenty hours, fleeing for his life from the peril of assassination, of which Madonna Lucrezia had warned him.
I am a courier riding to Parma, whom Madonna charged with that message to you in passing.
Chapter XXX The Surrender While Lee's messenger was making his way toward the Union lines, Grant was riding rapidly to the front where his forces had foiled the Confederate cavalry.
He, accordingly, again summoned Stuart and ordered him to repeat the experiment of riding around the opposing army.
A few hours later, Carl Brandow and Hinrich Scheel were riding over the moor from the smithy to Dollan, the same road which they had passed over in the opposite direction not ten minutes before.
When we reached the mouth of the cave we were a rather jolted-up crowd, for riding over hills in Texas is not like riding along a road in San Antonio.
Think of the scores of wheelmen who have been fined for riding at night without lights, to say nothing of the danger of going unlighted.
There is really very little satisfaction in riding one hundred miles merely for the sake of saying that you have done it.
We can take turns at riding them, and work all through long vacation for money to get the rest.
Your descent into the saddle should be such that any one you may be riding straight at, shall see a part of your right shoulder and hip as they rise and fall, his line of vision being directed along the off-side of the horse's neck.
If preferred, the skirt may be provided on each side with a slit, extending down from the knees, so as to enable the wearer to readily use the skirt when wearing breeches or riding boots.
Weeks of careful riding always under the trainer's eye, will be required before the lessons are complete, and the pupil sobered down so as to be a safe and comfortable conveyance for children beginners.
It was only my strong desire to see the volcano which made me consent to a mode of riding against which I have a strong prejudice; but the result of the experiment is that I shall visit Kilauea thus or not at all.
The fashion of riding in the cross-saddle, if it is to be introduced, as it ought to be, must emanate from the rising generation.
Long riding shoulders" is an expression in almost every horseman's mouth, but very high and large-shouldered animals are apt to ride heavy in hand and to be high actioned.
Already as an infant I had known Mr. White; but now, when daily riding over to Tixover in company, and daily meeting at breakfast and dinner, we became intimate.
After riding for six or seven miles along the cultivated levels, we began to ascend a rough slope, overgrown with chestnuts; here and there some vines streaming in garlands displayed their clusters.
Angela are frequently represented, in legendary tales, as ridingon the beams of the moon.
While I was waiting for them, a youth came along riding a raven black horse.
I therefore decided that I would undress and go to bed, but on second thoughts I simply pulled off my riding boots and doublet and threw myself on the bed.
I fastened my sword carefully by my side, and having seen to my pistols, I took my riding boots in my hand, and crept carefully along the passage towards a doorway I had noted during the evening.
Only that a man's saddle will be on the nag's back, and it will look strange for a maid to be riding on a man's saddle.
Therefore as I had opportunity, I drew my horse so close to hers that my right foot almost touched her riding habit.
So I determined to bear to the left until I reached the Portsmouth road, and then byriding through the little village of Wandsworth, and crossing Battersea fields, I should miss London altogether.
In truth, so well do you ride that I would e'en like a kiss to assure myself that thou art not some gay gallant who hath come riding with me.
I had not ridden many miles, however, before I noticed that two men wereriding behind me, and as I judged were anxious to keep me in sight.
That, as may be remembered, was the speech of Master Rickmore and Master Hamilton on the night when I had been dragged from my horse when riding from Canterbury to London.
I mean that I was attacked by men who used your name when riding to London," I answered; "that they dragged me from my horse, and searched me to the skin.
I knew that I could obtain a ferry at Battersea, and then by riding across country I could get to Barnet without so much as being seen by any who dwelt in London town.
By the time daylight dawned I was far away from London, and was ridingthrough one of the fairest tracts of country of which perchance our country can boast.
They eat no beef, but use their oxen forriding upon.
She used to imagine him visiting at all the country-houses, and she saw him on horseback, riding to the meet in a red coat.
In very cold weather they wear a shorter coat over this, as well as parkas and kokclankas or riding coats, which are nothing more than loose jackets or cloaks of skin, with sleeves reaching below the knees.
You do not stop if it merely overtake you, travelling the same way, nor need you to stop, whether riding or driving, if the hearse be empty.
