And the black Knight was allowed to enter, and the portcullis was let fall upon Owain; and it struck his horse behind the saddle, and cut him in two, and carried away the rowels of the spurs that were upon Owain's heels.
He touched Pronto's flanks with the dulled rowels he wore, and the pinto broke into a lope.
This is one of the best medicines that can be made for scratches, hoof-evil, and cuts, and is good to apply on fistula after the rowels have been taken out.
Weary, and set the example by tilting his rowels against Glory's smooth hide, and heading eastward.
A dollar laid upon the rowels would have left a fringe of prongs all around.
Phineas again instantly jumped into his saddle, and turning Dandolo again at the ditch, rammed the rowels into the horse's sides.
If you'll only let him know that you're on his back, and have got a pair of spurs on your heels with rowels in them, he'll take you anywhere.
Resolved to learn, he spurred his fiery steed With goring rowels to provoke his speed.
Her boots, with the bigrowels still attached, had been cleaned.
As Jerry passed through the living-room the hugerowels on her boots caught in the rug.
The straps with rich enamel decked I bid you lay aside; And bind the rowels to my heel With thongs of dusky hide.
And as he spoke the Moor struck deep the rowels in his steed, And rode away from Tagus' side across the grassy mead.
As he dashed his glitteringrowels in the flank of his good steed, And his reins left dangling from the bit, along the white highway, For his mind was set to speed his horse, to speed and not to stay.
Gazul made bravely his defence, And none could check his flight; He dashed his rowels in his steed, And vanished in the night.
Black as the buskins that he wears, and black his stirrup's steel, And red with rust of many a year the rowels at his heel.
XLVI Now the bold youth from his Frontino flings (Frontino was his gentle courser hight) Then leaps on him who towers in air, and stings And goads his haughty heart with rowels bright.
Ferrau halts not, and Roland fast pursues, Nor Sacripant less plies the rowels bright.
He backed his horse, and so the rowels plied, In London he arrived by even-tide.
Calcaromma calcarea, a Radiolarian which contained scattered in its calymma numerous calcareous corpuscles "resembling the rowels of spurs.
As already mentioned above, these calcareous rowels are foreign bodies, picked up by an Actissa (see p.
The black knight was allowed to enter, but the portcullis was let fall upon Owain, and it struck his horse behind the saddle, and cut him in two, and carried away the rowels of the spurs that were upon Owain's heels.
The spur of the mustanger again drew blood, till its rowels were red; and Castro, galloping at his utmost speed, glanced back upbraidingly over his shoulder.
Mexican, as, driving the rowels against the ribs of her steed, she goes off at full gallop for the alhuehuete.
Ere it had ceased to oscillate on the smooth sward, he wrenched his horse around; struck the rowels deep; and galloped away from the ground!
And dashed the rowels in his steed, Like arrow through the archway sprung; The ponderous gate behind him rung; To pass there was such scanty room, The bars descending, razed his plume.
The Earl of Essex, when he beheld them pause in their assembled force, dashed the rowels into his charger's sides, and galloped backwards and forwards to array his followers, in opposition to a band so formidable.
I got down on foot with difficulty; a difficulty much increased by the long rowels of my spurs, which caught on the rocks and entangled my dress, the simple expedient of taking them off not having occurred to me!
Randy, who was playing with a pair of spurs on the ground, looked up for a moment at his father and went on spinning the rowels and singing a little song.
The Knights, then, were not all turned to dust; nor were their rowels rust.
They were enormous, and their rowels extended a good twelve inches from Merton's heels after he had donned them.
The rowels were now catching in the long hair of his chaps.
Loud was the war-shout of the mountaineer, as he struck his heavy spurs to the rowelsin his horse's side, and bounded like lightning to the rescue.
Simultaneously the long rowels of a spur bit deep into the foaming flank, the swish of a quirt sounded keenly, a voice broke out in one word of command, "Whoa!
Very hard it had been to put life into the beast at starting; deep the rowels of the great spur had been dug.
In most instances, the sharp points of the rowels should be filed or rubbed off, for they are seldom required for more than to rouse a horse at a fence, or turn him suddenly away from a vehicle in the street.
And so, with ever increasing viciousness, the rowelswere driven deeper and deeper.
Only when the outlaw fell had he thrown forward his right leg and hooked the sharp rowels into the strong fiber of the forward cinch.
The rowels of his spur dug anew at the flank of his pony as he turned a voice like a fog-horn back over his shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
