Gabe and his brother added to the effect of numbers by clattering the stirrups of the horses, so that the clearing seemed alive with armed men.

The natives, who are idolaters, use long stirrups in riding, like the French; whereas the Tartars and other nations use short stirrups, because they rise up when they discharge their arrows.

But Sir Robert, nothing heeding, secure in his noble might, scowled about him 'neath lifted vizor, and summoned the Reeve to his stirrup with imperious hand: "How now, master Reeve," quoth he, "I am in haste to be gone: where tarries Sir Gui?

Mr. Holt gave the same benediction to the little page, who went down and held my lord's stirrups for him to mountthere were two servants waiting there, tooand they rode out of Castlewood gate.

If tradition told us that Ben Jonson went to the Devil tavern; that Shakespeare stole deer, and held the stirrup at play-house doors; that Dryden frequented Button's coffee-house; curiosity was lulled asleep, and biography forgot the best part of her function, which is, to instruct mankind by examples taken from the school of life.

But he slipped the stirrups from his feet The bridle from his hand, And grasped the mane full lightly, And vaulted from his seat, And gained the road in triumph,[015] And stood upon his feet.

And now the knight hath mounted, Before the admiring band, Hath got the stirrups on his feet.

He took the stirrup within his paws, and fawned upon the prince's foot.

The combatants met together so fiercely that the lance pierced the steel of the buckler; yet neither lost stirrup by the shock.

The camaradas, on the other hand, had jim-crow saddles and bridles, and rusty little iron stirrups into which they thrust their naked toes.

So that thus the same list may include the names of a Chaucer and a Waller, of a Milton and a Denhamthe more as we suspect none but a true poet can materially improve even a poetical mode, can contrive even a new stirrup to Pegasus, or even to retune the awful organ of Pythia.