Unable to avoid it, Lanyard tried to hurdle it, caught a foot on one of its legs and, as Dupont threw himself headlong down the stairs, crashed to the floor with an impact that shook its beams.

They were "Richard Shuttleworth, of Preston, Esq.; Roger Moncaster, of Garstang, attorney; Thomas Cowpe, of Walton-le-Dale; William Butler, of Myerscough, Esq.; William Arkwright, of Preston, gentleman;" and all of them were put to death on Gallows Hill the cost being for "materialls, hurdle, fire, cart, &c.," and for "setting up" Shuttleworth's head, &c., 12 pounds 0s 4d.

But cannot a Clergyman choose rather to lie upon feathers than a hurdle; but he must be idle, soft, and effeminate!

Wilbur's Nanny took the hurdle and he answered, 'Where did you think I was?

The hurdle is brought out, placed half-way down one of the long sides of the school, and Nell walks her horse quietly down the other, turns him again as she comes on the second long side, shakes her reins lightly, putting him to a canter, and is over "beautifully," as you say to yourself, as you watch her enviously.

"You did not fall off," the master comments, coiling the lash of the long whip with which he has stood beside the hurdle during Miss Nell's performance, "but you did not guard yourself against falling when you went up, and had you had some horses, you might have come down before he did, although that is not so easy for a lady as it is for a man.

truck, tram; cariole, carriole^; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen^, palanquin; litter, brancard^, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett^, dearborn [U.S.], dump cart, hack, hackery^, jigger, kittereen^, mailstate^, manomotor^, rig, rockaway^, prairie schooner

Two hundred carriages and a crowd of horsemen followed the hurdle on which he was drawn to the place of execution.

Across the lower end of the bed of a brook which was nearly dried up, and in which there were only a few rivulets left running, they had fastened a hurdle of bamboo, and thrown up a shallow dam behind it.

A bamboo hurdle placed at the bottom of the boat protects the traveller from the water and serves him as a couch.

A skeleton horse leaping a hurdle.

He is gaining fast, and tops the last hurdle leading to the straight just as the hoofs of the other two reach the ground.

Tom shouted and threw a hurdle across the entrance when the dogs had driven the sheep into the fold.

He grew to be quite an adept, indeed, and could take a two-foot hurdle with little difficulty.

Neatly as the boy Pretty ever skimmed a hurdle in a hurdle-race, the boat skimmed the gulf of water.

Neatly as the boy Pretty ever skimmed a hurdle in a hurdle-race, the boat skimmed the gulf of water.

I've tripped at every hurdle.

They are kept carefully preserved from the rain: they should not be wet from the time they are first spread on the hurdle till they are boiled for the table.

*** At a Guildford charity fête the winner of a hurdle race was awarded a new-laid egg.

'Tis but a poor little hurdle," and he shrugged his shoulders disdainfully, "but 'twill have to do.

As he reached the gilt chair he paused for the infinitesimal part of a second as a horse does at a hurdle, and then, with one clean spring, was over safely.

There was a gallant recklessness in his bearing, but Calvert noted that his movements seemed heavy, though his pace accelerated greatly as he neared the improvised hurdle.

Charles Addams (A); 16Jun65; R363297. <pb id='004.png' n='1965h1/A/1032' /> Horse show, truck horses take a hurdle.

The car jumped off the mark like a hunter at a hurdle, jumped clear away from the child (who sat down abruptly on the pavé) and bolted down-hill all out.

The sick who shall refuse the sacraments, if they recover, to banishment for life; if they die, to be dragged on a hurdle.