As for Stephen, he stood high in his stirrups and stared down at the girl.
He helped the ladies to mount the ponies, lengthened my own stirrupsfor me, swung into the saddle himself, and then the four of us were picking our way down the Rue Chartres at an easy amble.
He mounted a milk-white steed, whose reins and stirrups were of gold and the saddle and housings were of azure satin dubbed with jewels and fringed with pendants of fresh pearls.
The old rule of having the stirrups just touch the ankle-bone when the foot is hanging is not a bad one.
The jockey habit of galloping in the stirrups is rarely of use except as a means of changing your own seat and sometimes of easing your horse across ploughed fields or bad ground.
When saddle and stirrups came into use, followed anon by spurs, discretion soon taught the grip with knee and thigh alone, the heels being kept for other purposes than support.
On parade he will ride with the longest of stirrups compatible with not sitting on his crotch.
He waited neither to find hisstirrups nor grip the reins firmly, but the same athletic leap which carried him into the saddle set the horse in motion, and from a standing start the animal broke into a headlong gallop.
I noticed his long stirrups and the curb rein hanging loose, while he held the snaffle, and concluded he was a cavalry officer.
Then he cut the reins and tied them, and mounting without stirrups rode towards the bridge.
Shannon could not feel the stirrups with his feet.
If you keep the cap down and ride with your stirrups long, as I've fixed them, anybody would take you for me," said he.
Brilliant indeed, sir,' returned Joe, rising in his stirrups to get a better view.
Purdy's horse, the stirrups lashing his sides, dashing madly in his wake.
Kicking his feet from thestirrups the man stood upright in his saddle and peered over the top of an intervening pile of lumber.
Just when it seemed that the trail must end in a blind pocket, the Texan swung into a cross fissure so narrow that the stirrups brushed either side.
Feet in the stirrups and seat in the saddle, I hung and rattled with them long-horn cattle.
The cowboys were close, now, and the laughing, cheering passengers surged back as the horses swerved at full speed with the stirrups of their riders almost brushing the outermost rank of the crowd.
So saying, he smiled his wry and twisted smile and closed his vizor: then, with shield addressed and feet thrust far within the stirrups he lightly feutred his deadly lance; and behold!
Nay then, shalt have stirrups and saddle, for I am fain to walk.
Johan rose high in his stirrupsand cried aloud the battle-cry of his house 'Arise!
Before he could reply, she rose in her stirrups and pointed ahead with her quirt.
He reloaded the weapon to its fullest capacity, and stood up in his stirrups to stare at the ridge crest.
Yes, but he may have been after a deer," answered the girl, lifting her lithe figure tiptoe in the stirrups of her man's saddle to peer over the bushes.
When he had adjusted the stirrups to fit her, he turned to aid Kay, only to discover that the gallant Panchito had already performed the honors for that young lady by squatting until she could reach the stirrup without difficulty.
As she brought Panchito round on his nimble heels, she saw Don Mike rise in his stirrups and throw.
Aunt Dahlia, in that ringing voice of hers which had once caused nervous members of the Quorn to lose stirrups and take tosses from the saddle.
His horse-fittings and massive stirrups (to say nothing of his enormous spurs) will be of solid silver, and his arms inlaid with the same metal.
Plenty of nice soft rugs to lie upon and cover yourself with, instead of a hard English saddle for your bed and stirrups for blankets,' as a native once said, when asked which he preferred.
The stirrupsare suspended by strips of hide from the holes bored in the foremost saddle-trees.
One was there leading by nearly a rood, Though we were racing he kept to the fore, Still as a rock in his stirrups he stood, High in the sunlight his sabre he bore.
Where bullets whistle, and round shot whiz, Hoofs trample, and blades flash bare, God send me an ending as fair as his Who died in his stirrups there!
Leaving our ponies and the cart at Yang Fang, and mounted on mules as being more surefooted, though the high wooden saddles and short stirrups were most uncomfortable, we started betimes.
He rides Moorish fashion, with his stirrupsvery short, and wears a curved cutlass in his belt.
Meanwhile, the melody of hounds increased, and each man, as he got through the little gate, rose in his stirrups and hustled his horse along the green ride to catch up those on before.
Captain Guano, still fumbling at the leathers, 'I shall never be able to ride with stirrups in this state.
Jack, now rising in his stirrups and brandishing his big whip.
Captain Guano couldn't get hisstirrups to his liking anyhow.
Mr. Sponge again looked him over, and still seeing no exception to take to him, bid the lad get off and lengthen the stirrups for him to take a ride.
Mr. Bragg, rising in his stirrupsand telegraphing with his right arm.
Mister Bragg, rising in his stirrupswith a gracious smile, passed a very polite bow along the line.
Jack, as he espied Sponge and Jawleyford rising the hill together, easing their horses by standing in their stirrups and holding on by their manes.
As they struck the water, therefore, Wilbur rose in his stirrups and lashed the horse a second time.
His feet were out of the stirrups and well forward, so that, although he had received three or four bruising encounters as the cattle lurched and surged against him, he was unhurt.
Every musquet was grounded at once, and at the same moment the jingling sound of bridles and stirrups coming up at the full gallop struck my ear, and was certainly the gladdest sound I had heard for many a long day.
One moment she felt that they were both going to fall over backwards, and was about to clear the stirrups to jump.
She did this to clear her feet from the stirrups so that when she fell she might not be dragged along on the ground by one foot.
The mere turn of the foot in the stirrups told it, as the old man had the shrewdness to know.
Then down headlong out of his stirrups he reeled and fell under his horse; and when we lifted him up there were two broken sword-blades buried in him, and the blood was pouring fast as water out of thirty wounds and more.
Had I but my feet in yonder stirrups and my sabre in my hand, a single bold dash might take me out of the power of these vermin of the rocks.
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