Saddle Up

A column in the school newspaper, The Brigadier, has challenged anyone to be the first to "saddle-up" the "Divine Bovine." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Are they going to 'pony-up' dollars to help Stelmach defer the cost of his media campaign, or is Wall going to 'saddle-up' and mount his own advertising in Saskatchewan trying to convince us that tarsands mega-projects are good for the environment? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then it can and will get even uglier: Homegrown Brownshirts emerge, brandishing bibles and automatic weapons (convinced when Jesus returns the first thing he'll do is apply for membership to the NRA and then saddle-up and ride a Cruise Missile, Slim Pickens-style, aimed at the false god idolizing hordes of the Muslem world). ❋ Unknown (2006)

Marty had given me instructions during the saddle-up, but it didn't matter. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Blake came in tu saddle-up an 'pull out last night was that ther sorrel ❋ Ralph S. Kendall (N/A)

This is simply done by the officers calling "Opzâal, opzâal" (saddle-up) in loud tones. ❋ P. [Illustrator] Van Breda (1892)

I told them to saddle-up, and went off with my staff to the farm of ❋ Christiaan Rudolf De Wet (1888)

Linda_Williams: Excuse me while I go saddle-up my dino. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2010)

Eneloop "peddle-assist" bicycles that had been exclusively available in Japan made a US debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where attendees go to saddle-up and ride in a carpeted casino hotel ballroom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I know that in the near-future I've got this brilliant game waiting, and a couple of mates who are abstaining until I'm ready to saddle-up and hit the streets: D Exciting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can saddle-up and choose just the right mixture of fun and business at one of the themed ranch houses and you will even find some which offer overnight stays. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The conceit of a good man doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is not a revolutionary one, and Wilson is too canny to offer one last saddle-up for the tarnished knight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The daily routine is as follows: At 4 a.m. at the call of a bugle all troops have to rise, and the roll is called over; at 4.30 a.m. coffee is served; at 5.0 every morning orders are given to saddle-up horses and arm, and they have to be ready to leave the barracks at 5.30 for morning drill on horseback or to go to the shooting range, according to the time-table; the drilling continues till 10 o'clock, at which hour the troops are due back at the barracks, having to go through a course of drilling on foot up till 11 o'clock. ❋ Various (N/A)

a dateless alternation of light and darkness, of saddle-up and off-saddle, of cossack-post, of thinking about water -- and of yearning with every fibre of one's being for the ineffable boon of a long sleep. ❋ Eric Moore Ritchie (N/A)