Which preposition to use with steeplechasing
Gone away!An elephant steeplechase in pursuit.
A jockey may, when riding in a steeplechase for money, but he will be angry with himself for having to do it, and a lady must not.
Little Vibrio, who writes the playful notice in the 'Medley Pie,' has a clever hit at Volvox in that passage about the steeplechase of imagination, where the loser wants to make it appear that the winner was only run away with.
It was known that the old man had passed the limit of seventy, but only five years before he won a steeplechase on his own, and if ever a rider fulfilled Montaigne's ideal of a life spent in the saddle, it was he.
If you wish to draw a flash of excitement from Dodd's eyes, ask him if he remembers the steeplechase to Sidanka.
We had need of a spell on our backs, for what with all our steeplechasing over yawning gravesthat is the way I always think of itwe were somewhat out of breath.