Horrock, at a question from Fred about his horse's fetlock, turned sideways in his saddle, and watched the horse's action for the space of three minutes, then turned forward, twitched his own bridle, and remained silent with a profile neither more nor less sceptical than it had been.
"I should learn everything then," she said to herself, still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood.
Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.
Under his pony's bridle he had tucked some sprigs of chaparral to keep away the deer flies.
--《·》15:3 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
" () "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush " () "all is grist that comes to his mill" () :"all is not gold that glitters" () :"a boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
It comes from the Latin fraenum which meant 'bridle' – that same idea of restrained movement.
Hastily brushing the thistles from its coat, he laid the leather saddle on its back, pulled the bridle over its mangy ears and heaved himself up.
" The rider got down, took the gold, and helped Hans up; then gave him the bridle tight in his hands and said, "If you want to go at a really good pace, you must click your tongue and call out, "Jup!
As he was thus thinking he let the bridle fall, and the horse began to caper about, so that he was continually disturbed in his meditations, and could not collect his thoughts at all.
" They took him off to show him silver kitchens, where silver chickens roasted over silver fires, and silver gardens where silver peacocks spread their tails The boy picked a little bunch of silver flowers and stuck them in his hat That night he gave them to the king's daughter when she asked for them The third day, he crushed the third head and found a gold key He slipped the key into the lock and entered a solid gold palace, where his servents were gold too, from wig to boots; the beds were
While her master rides his rapid horse with jade bit an bridle, Her handmaid brings her cod-fish in a golden plate.
Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear of his straying, and will dismount.
Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents.
Noureddin letting her go, seized Saouy's horse by the bridle, and, encouraged by the applause of the bystanders, dragged him to the ground, beat him severely, and left him in the gutter streaming with blood.
They mounted their second horses, and Marzavan led one of the grooms' horses by the bridle.
One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, from the greatest to the least, all men rode their horses without bridle or stirrups.
His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one side of his trough was filled with clean barley and sesame, and the other with rose water.
As he was thus thinking he let the bridle fall, and the horse began to caper about, so that he was continually disturbed in his meditations, and could not collect his thoughts at all.