This stirrup rests upon a curious body which looks in the diagram like a snail-shell with tubes coming out of it.
Thus thestirrup is always playing upon this little window.
This body, which is called the labyrinth, is made of bone, but it has two little windows in it, one covered only by a membrane, while the other has the head of the stirrupresting upon it.
The main rods were ordered cut to length, but the stirrup rods were ordered in lengths of 20 ft.
The lower chord bars were then suspended in the stirrup hooks and the whole assemblage of bars and stirrups was then clamped rigid by the lever bars and intermediate clamps.
Across the horizontals of the framework were placed two false temporary top chord bars marked to the stirrup spacing of the truss being assembled.
To tell the truth, I had no actual fear then; it seemed so impossible that these Johnstown yokels really meant to take my life, even if they caught me--this ass of a Toby Tice whom I had tipped for holding my stirrup more than once.
He noticed the slickers on the saddles and the carbines under the stirrup leathers.
Little Jim almost tumbled from his pony in his eagerness to ride Joshua, his father's horse, with the big saddle and rope and the carbine under the stirrup leather.
The boy, who rode a well-mannered gray pony, kicked one foot out of thestirrup and hooked his small leg over the horn.
I say, Germain, just hold the stirrup for me--that's right.
I like my stirrup leathers very short; that gives one a much firmer seat.
One moment; mystirrup leathers are still too long.
Despite the shortened stirrup leathers, he bumped and rolled about on his saddle, although he had grasped the pommel with his right hand.
She turned her face away and busied herself with a stirrup leather.
Once, when the fresh morning wind swept down a gulch at an oblique angle, it lifted for an instant from the stirrup leather what might have been a gray flag.
Phil borrowed the knife to fix a stirrup leather, and forgot to give it back to me.
Moreover, their rifles were not strapped beneath the stirrup leathers, but were carried across the pommels of the saddles.
The rider's left foot is caught fast in the stirrup and his head drags in the dust.
The hoofs of eighty horses beat the ground and the deafening noise was mingled with wild cries and the rattle of stirrup irons.
The Stirrup Cup" is one of the simplest of these allegories.
It was a custom in olden days when a man was ready to journey, for one who loved him to bring a glass of wine which he drank in the saddle; and this was called the stirrup or parting cup.
The Princess Elizabeth awaits you in the anteroom, and your master of horse already holds the stirrup of your steed.
Thomas Seymour, as he held the queen's stirrup and assisted her into the saddle.
When I had led him for some time two Japanese with a string of pack-horses loaded with deer-hides met me, and not only put the saddle on again, but held the stirrup while I remounted, and bowed politely when I went away.
The whole caravan pushed on briskly, and quiet was broken only by the snorting of the horses or the clank of stirrup against stirrup.
Stirrup did not touch stirrup; there was no clattering of sabres.
He walked at Kate's stirrup till they were out of earshot.
Doubleday and Dawson rode stirruptostirrup with the man from Hatchet Creek.
I do not advise this method to be gone rapidly about, as she may make use both of stirrup and reins at first, and when she has acquired a firmness and ballance in some degree, may first quit the stirrup, and in a lesson or two, the reins.
Old Blue and Pie Face splashed through water barely reaching the stirrup leathers.
The Frenchman made no difficulty; he realized the futility of opposition; so he placed his foot in the stirrup with alacrity, and, the next instant, was in the saddle.
The stirrup had handsome leather covers, while a fringe of thongs fell almost to the ground, to aid in pushing their way through the tall prairie grass.
When Windley came up to me he said "Get up behind me; there's no time to lose," and pulled his foot out of the left stirrup for me to mount.
Without bridles or stirrup leathers, they can scarce make a start; and it will take them some minutes to patch them up.
That is all very well, Pierre; but the orders are strict against plundering and, if the Admiral were to catch you, you would get a sound thrashing with a stirrup leather.
When he hath a mind to ride me, he binds on his feet a thing of iron called a stirrup and lays on my back another thing called a saddle, which he fastens by two girths, passed under my armpits.
So they passed on; and after they were gone there came a loose horse, saddled and bridled, but covered all over with mire, and with a stirrup missing from the saddle.
The first thing will be to tie each stirrup strap into a loose knot to make them short, and prevent the stirrups from flying about and hitting him.
