30 Verbs to Use for the Word curbing

He reached the curb beside them just as the girl turned back, with the man still following her, and stepped in between them.

Wind blowing strong from the sea, roughening the dark blue waters, and fretting their indigo with foam, as though the ocean's coursers champed an invisible curb.

And you, O Prince of Hoheneck! Have known me in that earlier time, A man of violence and crime, Whose passions brooked no curb nor check.

He started, checked the curb, the horse threw up his head, fulfilling his name by driving his knees like a battering-ram against the palesthe top-bar bent like a withe, flew out into a hundred splinters, and man and horse rolled over headlong into the hard flint-road.

This hold is used in the British army, and it is convenient in school, because if it be desirable to drop the curb in order to ride with the snaffle only, you can do it by dropping your ring finger,

A pair of house-wrens had a nest in my well-curb; when the young were partly grown and heard any one enter the curb, they would set up a clamorous calling for food.

Then, gathering curb and snaffle, he set toe to stirrup and swung up into his saddle.

I looked down the dark, but there was nought except the servant in the light of the hanging lamp, holding the curbs of the two horses that leaped and reared with nervous limbs and fiery eyes behind him.

As it drew nearer its speed slackened, and he saw it hug the curb and stop at his door.

" He was sitting astride on his chair, attacking me, as it were, with the chairback, and went on with his usual impetuosity: "There are, as Dumas says, apes from the land of Nod, who know neither curb nor bridle; but what are eyes given for but to see that you do not take to wife an ape from Nod?

They filled the shops and thronged the, sidewalks and lined the curb.

Nature is full of cruel catastrophes, man is a physically degenerate ape, every appetite, every instinct, needs the curb; salvation is not in the nature of things, but whatever salvation there may be is in the nature of man; face all these painful things.

When a stationary wagon or other obstruction sent me out into the road, it enabled me to pick up the curb again unerringly.

Laws had been made in answer to the complaints of the aristocracy to place some curb on the growing ambition of the "bourgeoisie"; thus we find an old edict in the reign of Philippe the Fair (1285-1314)"No bourgeois shall have a chariot, nor wear gold, precious stones, nor crowns of gold and silver.

In working a mule with too much flesh, it will produce curbs, spavin, ringbone, or crooked hocks.

Formerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element.

And there is respite from the prancing PRINGLES, And absence puts a curb On the reluctant lips of SAMUEL (HERB.).

His incredulity does not appear so much the offspring of viciousness refusing the curb of moral restraint, as of pride unwilling to be trammelled by the opinions of the multitude.

If this be true, it would seem that the mere presence of man had a certain subduing or mesmerising effect upon the native turbulence of Nature, and his absence now may have removed the curb.

Here and there among the slabs rises a well-curb or a crumbling koubba.

The trees were budding symmetrically along the avenue below; and Paul, looking down, saw, between windows and tree-tops, a pair of tall iron gates with gilt ornaments, the marble curb of a semi-circular drive, and bands of spring flowers set in turf.

The king's eyes had caught the angry gleam which shot from hers, and yet he strove hard to set a curb upon his temper.

But where the sword has plunged so deep, And then been turned within the wound By deadly Hate; where Climes contend On vasty ground No warning Alps or seas between, And small the curb of creed or law,

Call the knob straps the snaffle reins, and the keyhole straps the curb, and, sitting near enough to let them lie in your lap, practice picking them up and adjusting them with your eyes shut.

Mr. Mead, in his 'Horsemanship for Women,' mentions this hold, but prefers taking the curb on the ring finger, and the snaffle outside the little finger, and between the forefinger and middle finger.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  curbing