142 Verbs to Use for the Word rode

Nothing in the familiar old kitchen was hers, Angeline reflected, except Abraham, her aged husband, who was taking his last gentle ride in the old rocking-chairthe old arm-chair with painted roses blooming as brilliantly across its back as they had bloomed when the chair was first purchased forty years ago.

He seemed anxious to break me in, as well as the pony, and I greatly enjoyed this, my first day's ride on a Kansas prairie.

I do not believe that there was ever such a paradox in nature, as a man who had tossed the baby up and down, balanced it on his hand, given it a ride on his foot, and yet never sang to it.

"I caught a ride on your private car, when it left New York, not caring much where it might take me.

And Moriana raised her eyes And saw her lover ride,

Sarah A. Solovay, John H. Mueller & George E.G. Catlin (A); 8Apr66; R383075. DU SOE, ROBERT C. The devil thumbs a ride.

"With machines like that we can get along without the I.W.W." "I want a ride on it," declared Lenore, and she ran along to meet the harvester.

For about an hour the three friends continued their ride, and then halted to bind up their wounds, and conceal themselves for the rest of the day.

Miller recognized in him a black giant by the name of Josh Green, who for many years had worked on the docks for Miller's father,and simultaneously identified him as the dust-begrimed negro who had stolen a ride to Wellington on the trucks of a passenger car.

On arriving, as I had nothing else to do, I proposed a ride through the town, to the considerable consternation of our attendants.

The Highwaymen Tom o' the Roads had ridden his last ride, and was now alone in the night.

"Would you like a ride, little one?" said the Squire, "Miss Lavinia and myself are going to town.

Lady Lorna Rea (A); 27Jun56; R172827. READ, HELEN S. An airplane ride.

I did not hesitate for a moment to undertake an extra ride of eighty-five miles to Rocky Ridge, and I arrived at the latter place on time.

"She has a big sadness, which makes her ride to the pass.

We were having such a good ride together, and now I've spoiled it all, with this.

W. got a ride every morning, as the Congress only met in the afternoon.

In an earlier passage (p. 138), in describing a rough ride in Mull, he says:'We were now long enough acquainted with hills and heath to have lost the emotion that they once raised, whether pleasing or painful, and had our minds employed only on our own fatigue.'

With George for her companion, too, Venetia was induced to resume her rides.

The sun may rise, the sun may set, but ne'er again on thee, Will I repeat the sorry ride from which at length I'm free; I'd sooner walk ten thousand times, though walking would be vain, Than ever mount, my donkey steed, upon thy back again.

"And being that I'm right I'll say yore paw could 'a' saved himself the ride to Marysville by stayin' to home.

The Major has kindly offered me a horse, but I don't know how I'll stand the ride, for I haven't done any riding lately; but when I was a young man I spent several years among the fur companies of the Northwest, and was a good rider and an excellent shot.

There was a young lady sitting in the car, who remarked to her mother, as a very filthy-looking white man entered, 'See, they will let that filthy creature ride and prohibit a decent respectable colored person!'

Beyond Gan we passed into full view of the lovely Coteaux, which afford such pleasant rides and drives from Pau, and as we gradually neared the town, the heat seemed to intensify to anything but a pleasurable degree.

Nae man can tether time or tide: The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hour Tam mounts his beast in, And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in.

142 Verbs to Use for the Word  rode