Thus the carriage-horses were hers, for what need had he, a miserable bachelor, of anything more than a riding-horse and a brougham? ❋ Unknown (2006)
I could not but admire the wisdom and faith of this great brute; I never saw the riding-horse that would not have lost its life in such a situation; but the cart-elephant patiently waited and was saved. ❋ Unknown (2005)
One of the soldiers had seated himself on the saddled riding-horse, another held its bridle in his hand, a third had laid hold of its tail. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Her own riding-horse; her own pony-carriage; her own beautiful little sitting-room upstairs at the great house, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The doing of this extends over one, two, three, five, or even seven days; and when all is finished, he takes his own riding-horse, saddles, bridles, and waits on him himself,2 while he makes the noblest and most important minister of the kingdom mount him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And so had Isouda's riding-horse, the better of the two hitched outside the gatehouse for Meriet's use. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
With the easy good-humor characteristic of his class, he insisted upon exchanging his own riding-horse, "Five Spot," for the sorry mule which the Duchess rode. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
With the easy good humor characteristic of his class, he insisted upon exchanging his own riding-horse, "Five-Spot," for the sorry mule which the Duchess rode. ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)
Bryde was on his road for a crack with McGilp and Angus, and the road was swept bare and dry and the night clear as a bell, when there came that fine sound, the clatter and klop of riding-horse. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
The drayman was still at his horses 'heads, the groom was taking the riding-horse round to the stables. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
The doing of this extends over one, two, three, five, or even seven days; and when all is finished, he takes his own riding-horse, saddles, bridles, and waits on him himself, (2) while he makes the noblest and most important minister of the kingdom mount him. ❋ Ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian (N/A)
As he proposed to take his family and party by the stage, Hammond lent me his riding-horse, which I rode to Allatoona and the Etowah River. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
By his side, guarding him and mounted upon the colonel's magnificent riding-horse, fully accoutred, was a negro man belonging to a neighboring plantation, who had guided the Federals to "ole ---- 's place." ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
Woester had all eight horses of his piece killed, and his riding-horse. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
Persimmon, her cousin's riding-horse, a beautiful cream-colored mare with black, flowing mane and tail, and _Green Persimmon_, her colt, which was like its mother, and scarcely less beautiful. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
Breckenridge house, young Dicky Moran was so considerate as to be flung from his riding-horse. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
And when Jurgen raised his eyes he saw that his companion was not a centaur, but only a strayed riding-horse. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
With the easy good-humor characteristic of his class, he insisted upon exchanging his own riding-horse, Five Spot, for the sorry mule which the Duchess rode. ❋ Unknown (1917)
He was on a little devil of a stallion, which he rode blindfold for a couple of miles, and there was a regular circus when he removed the bandage; but evidently it never occurred to him that the animal was hardly a comfortable riding-horse for a man going out hunting and encumbered with a spear, a machete, and other belongings. ❋ Unknown (1914)
