It was a momentary but severe bereavement, the loss of those ears and the head that went with them, because I cared not to ride saddles that seemed to be floating in the air.
Thus I was driven to the bed, while mine hosts lay on the bare floor withsaddles for pillows.
There were shelter and refreshment for two hungry souls, and we slid out of our saddles as though we had been boned expressly for a cannibal feast.
THE LONE STAR TRAIL I'm a rowdy cowboy just off the stormy plains, My trade is girting saddles and pulling bridle reins.
I am a Texas cowboy and I do ride the range; My trade is cinches and saddles and ropes and bridle reins; With Stetson hat and jingling spurs and leather up to the knees, Gray backs as big as chili beans and fighting like hell with fleas.
And I had to give a start of much more than a mile because of the trouble we had in fitting the saddles to our mounts.
By the time I was ready, the oncoming Turks were not much more than a quarter of a mile away; and now I could see empty saddles at last, for some of the Kurds had dismounted and were firing from the ground with good effect.
Then down across the saddles the blood was seen to flow.
In lordly wise they rode to Brunhild's hall, their saddles set with precious stones, with narrow martingales, from which hung bells of bright and ruddy gold.
Ho, what good saddles they fetched for the comely dames!
Their battered shields were borne away for keeping, and enow there was of bloody saddles which one bade hide away, that the ladies might not weep.
Then came the warriors, too, and bade the lordly saddles of pure red gold be carried forth, on which the ladies should ride from Worms down to the Rhine.
Many cunning housings (2) of good cloth and well cut were seen hanging on either side from the saddles of the fair-fashioned dames.
I told Mr. Kennedy to put the saddles on the horses and go on; and the blacks came up and they followed us all day.
We can hide our saddles in there an' let the horses go," Lamy suggested.
To proceed, then: after having paid a visit to his team and given them their second feed, the carrier stretched himself on his pack-saddles and lay waiting for his conscientious Maritornes.
Our Turkish saddles grew softer on the third day’s journey, and we travelled more at ease.
The brothers kept beside them, placing one elbow on the saddles and holding their rifles and ammunition well above the water.
Of course saddles and bridles and all that sort of thing we can buy there, and we shall want a small tent to use when we get into out-of-the-way places.
When this was done, and the saddles taken off and piled together against the rocks, the other things were made up in portable packets, and they started up the ravine.
If we put the saddles on two of the riding mules, when we have got the poles clear we can fasten the ends to ropes and trail them behind us.
The latter is cheaper in the end, but you cannot be sure of getting mules accustomed to mountains, and you would therefore run the risk of their losing their foothold, and not only being dashed to pieces but destroying their saddles and loads.
Maria," he said, "do you and José take off the saddles and bags and fill up the spaces between these rocks on each side.
At present I have no doubt they are talking, and I think we can safely get back to where we piled up the saddles and bales.
Two of the men came forward and examined the mule's burden, and felt the saddles of the others to see that nothing was concealed there.
Therefore the horses had been carefully rubbed down, and the saddles replaced.
English saddles and bridles are imported largely; we thus return them their own hides, manufactured into choice and costly goods.
Horses, bridles, and saddles were repeatedly stolen in the streets; but such events, from the regularity of the police, do not often happen now.
When all was over, there were found to be many empty saddles in Stuart's command.
I suppose the quartermaster's department does not issue side-saddles to the mounted artillery for the use of errant damsels whom they capture.
After we had performed our morning tasks, the sheikh pointed out two camels, withsaddles on their backs, and told us that we might mount them.
The rangers rose, delighted at being thus freed from the burden of their sins, and got into their saddles again.
They leaped into their saddlesand started again, not in the direction of the hacienda, but in that of the Paso.
With these the traces of the carriage were repaired and a number of the saddles made fit for service.
The thieves, being afraid that the barking would arouse the plantation, jumped into their saddles and rode quietly along the county road till they reached the river road a quarter of a mile beyond.
Except our horses, their saddles and bridles and our arms, and the clothes on our backs, we possessed literally nothing in the world.
But the saddlesand bridles were as bad as those of the mules, though every bit and buckle glistened in the sunshine through constant rubbing with sand.
I say, tell me, if we both fall out of our saddles and lie there, do you think that the ponies will go on to the camp?
Burford was celebrated for its saddles in those days.
Macaulay tells us that two of the famous saddles were presented to this monarch, and remarks that one of the Burford saddlers was the best in Europe.
The Burgesses' Book has a note to the effect that in 1663 twenty-one pounds was paid for three saddles presented to Charles II.
If a fox goes away you see men sitting down in their saddles and cramming at the fences as hard as their horses can gallop.
The other natives dismounted, and put two lassoes round his horns, slipping the first into the same position, and vaulted into their saddles before he was on his legs.
The saddles were the only element of the picturesque that these Hawaiian steeds possessed.
I noticed, too, that there were very few trunks and portmanteaus, but that the after end of the saloon was heaped with Mexican saddles and saddlebags, which I learned too late were the essential gear of every traveller on Hawaii.
Saddles are to be had at most of the stores, from the elaborate Mexican and Californian saddle, worth from 30 to 50 dollars, to a worthless imitation of the English saddle, dear at five.
The tree of the standard saddles is of a standard width, and the fitting of the saddle to the horse's back is secured not from using different sized trees but by padding.
These saddles are built more on the lines of an army saddle, having more dip and a straighter flap than those for men.
While there are hundreds of different makes of side-saddles on the market, the really good ones are very few.
In France, however, many women use buckskin and some of thesesaddles are used in this country.
The best makers carry different lengths of saddles in stock.
Some of the best English side-saddles now are so made that, when ridden by a very good rider, a balance strap is not necessary.
In France these saddles are pipe-clayed and look very smart with a light habit, and if one is able to have two or more saddles in one's stable, I know of no objection to using this French type of saddle on occasion.
Side-saddles have two holes, in either of which the leaping horn may be screwed, and for most women it is more comfortable to have the horn in the lower hole.
The services proceeded unmolested; but, after the service, when the nine young men from Vichy went to get their horses, they found that some one had cut the saddles and bridles in pieces and turned their horses loose.
One evening near the beginning of this revival nine respectable young men of Vichy, Missouri, hired horses and saddles at the livery barn and came out to the schoolhouse to attend the meeting.
Their saddles were fitted with strong martingales and cruppers and with triple girths so that they could not shift.
The saddles themselves were of the usual native pattern, like miniature Mexicans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saddles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
