Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker... The Sixth Reader - Page 130by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed ! ' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; 1850.] A Ballad. 369 Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. II. " Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 600 pages
...word to each other, we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twos moonset at starting;... | |
| 1846 - 578 pages
...to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, nerer changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. ' 'Twas moonset at... | |
| 1846 - 534 pages
...pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place — I turned in my saddle and made the girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. ill. • 'Twas moonset... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1847 - 910 pages
...word to each other, we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Rowland a whit. III. 'Twas moonset... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
..." cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our... | |
| Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...echoed the wall to us galloping through ; 1830.] , ., ,ufc -BfcrfWU,,-^ 369 Behind shut the posteni, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast, ..... ' '•< II. >-lv,li MI it-lI'Ml Vllfll (: *' Not ft 'wofd to each other; we kept the great pace... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, " Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest And into the midnight we galloped abreast. 'Twos moonset at starting, but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear;... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, — Nor galloped less steadily Roland, a whit. 'T was moonset... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
..." cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed ! " eehoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neek by neek, stride for stride, never changing our... | |
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