She had bridled the horse and was swinging the saddle on him when I had reached the stable's shadow.

It will at least constrain any man to suspect all his discourse of vanity and unadvisedness, seeing he plainly hath no care to bridle his tongue from so gross an offence.

"And what are you doing here in Cairo?" "Tryin' to bridle a lil white mule."

with courage of a man Bridle this over-grieving passion, Or else dissemble it to comfort her. ROB.

Sonne, bridle this affection, cease these laments: She did not value them.

Abstain from Pleasure, and restrain your Will, Subdue Desire, and bridle loose Delight: Use scanted Diet, and forbear your Fill; Shun Secrecy, and talk in open sight: So shall you soon repair your present evil Plight.

The Pope protested in a firm but temperate tone, and his indignant people would fain have hurried him into a war; but he bridled their impatience and the matter ended in a compromise.

I will bridle my pen another time, and not tease and puzzle you with my aridities.

So it is for the interest of the drunkard to quit his cups; for the glutton to curb his appetite; for the debauchee to bridle his lust; for the sluggard to be up betimes; for the spendthrift to be economical, and for all sinners to stop sinning.

1 While with a strong and yet a gentle hand, You bridle faction, and our hearts command, Protect us from ourselves, and from the foe, Make us unite, and make us conquer too; 2 Let partial spirits still aloud complain, Think themselves injured that they cannot reign, And own no liberty but where they may Without control upon their fellows prey.

So it is the business of the spirit to bridle force, or matter's motion,mount the restless steed, and ride to a purpose!

The Indians, whooping defiance, retired; while McGarry halted a moment to allow the rescued settlers to bridle their horsessaddles were not thought of.

One of the secretaries, and the interpreter, who had the charge of educating one of his daughters, went with us, and were very inquisitive about the kingdom of France, particularly inquiring whether it had plenty of sheep, cattle, and horses, as if they meant to make it all their own; and I had often to bridle my indignation and anger at their presumptuous boastings.

Thus Hunyady, instead of blunting the edge of his sword upon foreign foes, had to bridle the insubordination of his own countrymen.

I bridled my ire, and decided to play the game out with them and fathom the mystery of their espionage.

But with Sextus and Norbanus the inner struggle to be self-controlled was genuine; they bridled irritation in the same way that they forced their horses to obey them captains of their own souls, as it were, and scornful of changefulness.

She made no effort to bridle her lips, but spoke lightly before the servants of the house, and said, "I marvel greatly that so reputable a man as our neighbour, should publish his dishonour to my lord.

Ramshorn bridled a little: she was only fifty-seven!"have had our turn, and theirs is come," said the rector rather inconsequently.

" The lady swept a proud curtsy backward, bridled her beautiful neck, and signed for them to pass her.

They are the foundation of Germany's strength, and the present author's only regret is, that the overwhelming forces obtained by bridling the Teutonic Niagara of brains and muscle, have been directed by a false patriotism into the wrong channels.

And that, I submit, is the solution of the problem of Mesopotamia; a solution well within the power of English enterprise to attain in the hands of such men as have already bridled the Nile, the water-horsemen of the world.

Fearing a teasing retort, he bridled the tender outburst and rode along pensively, revolving pretexts for another day's stay in Acredale.

To them he proclaimed that in the city of Peirene his sire bare rule and had rich heritage of land and palace, even he who once, when he longed to bridle the snaky Gorgon's son, Pegasos, at Peirene's spring, suffered many things, until the time when maiden Pallas brought to him a bit with head-band of gold, and from a dream behold it was very deed.

The first of these bridges carries the railway across the river Conway, close to the ancient castle built by Edward I. in order to bridle his new subjects, the Welsh.

"And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd hast."