Swift they rode, the throng parting before them; knee and knee together they leapt the palisade, and reining in their horses, paced down the lists and halted before the pale and trembling captive.

Now, reining in his eager beast, Beltane looked upon that stern array, and as he looked his eye kindled and his heart swelled within him.

"I'm afraid my horse won't stand this sort of thing," Lydia objected, desperately, reining in.

"These men know best, sir," cried Washington, reining in his horse beside him.

Where the deuce are you flying at that rate?" "I was riding after a woman," said the Laird, with great simplicity, reining in his steed.

Daniels was seated before his door, and I was taking a pipe at mine, Sir Edward, as a coach and six, with servants upon servants, drove down the street; it got near us, and the boys were reining the horses into the yard of the Dun Cow, as the gentleman in the coach saw my sign: he sent a groom to inquire who kept the house; I got up, your honor, and told him my name, sir.

There was a wave of the arm to Riley, and he responded by bringing his horse to a trot, then reining in close to the big man.

Have a drink?" She set her teeth over the refusal that had come to her lips and, reining near, reached out for the flask.

Work, the Power that drives behind, Guiding the purposes, taming the mind, Holding the runaway wishes back, Reining the will to one steady track, Speeding the energies faster, faster, Triumphing over disaster.

She blushed and smiled, looked down so shy, And thenlooked up again My comrades warned me: 'Mind your eye, With Twisting Jane!' I wooed her thus, not sure but slow, To kiss she vowed a crime, For she was 'reining back,' you know, While I was 'marking time.' 'Alas!'

"Which way do we travel?" asked Shorty Kilrain, reining close beside the leader, as though he were anxious to disestablish any relationship with the rest of the party.

It was just a sort of inexplicable panic which she was reining in with all her might by telling herself how fond she really was of Graham and how terrible a thing it would be if she hurt him unnecessarily.

" "Rather a treat to be able to see over a bit of country again, after so many months of the flat," said, the Adjutant, reining up beside the other.

The designs purport to represent the Duke's battles and sieges; and everywhere we see the hero himself, as large as life, and as gorgeous in scarlet and gold as the holy sisters could make him, with a three-cornered hat and flowing wig, reining in his horse, and extending his leading-staff in the attitude of command.

The horse is rearing; the fallen enemy is vainly striving to defend himself; the victor in one drawing is reining in his steed, in another is waving a truncheon, in a third is brandishing his sword, in a fourth is holding the sword in act to thrust.

For a space he stared up, reining in his prancing horse with the instinct born of years of horsemanship.

Sullenly the men drew back, mastering themselves with effort, reining in their wrath, still for his sake.

"Valencia tells me that the prairie schooner which José spoke of has of a truth cast anchor upon my land," observed the don to Dade, reining in beside him where he rode a little in advance of the others.

"Truly, José will be disappointed when he does not see Señor Jack amongst us," smiled Valencia, reining in beside Dade and looking after the departing horseman with friendly eyes.

He did not relish being put in the background as a pack-horse, and accordingly, whenever we approached a stream, where the file broke up to permit each horseman to choose his own place of fording, it was, invariably the case that just as I was reining Jerry into the water, Brunet would come rushing past and throw himself into our very footsteps.

" Alexander P. Dill looked at him uncertainly, as if his sense of humor were weak and not to be trusted off-hand; turned his tired horse awkwardly in a way that betrayed an unfamiliarity with "neck-reining," and began to retrace his steps beside Charming Billy.

"Why, has any misfortune happened in the Khan's house?" he enquired, reining in his horse, which he had just before lashed with the whip to force him faster to Khounzákh.

Every rider leaned far back in his pearl-inlaid, jewel-crusted saddle, reining in his horse.

Through the center arch rode Bara Miyan, now reining into a canter.

You abandon your client's mistress for the wife, is it so?" "What I may do you will learn hereafter," said Poindexter, who had regained his composure, suddenly reining up his horse.