 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 first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 214by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868 - 328 pages
...; Behind shnt the postern, the lights sank to rost, 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 onr place ; I tnrned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrnp, and set the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...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 for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Frederick Martin - 1869 - 304 pages
...come to a place we wished to avoid above all others — a barrack full of Cossacks. CHAPTER XXII. " Not a word to each other : we kept the great pace,...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." BKOWNINO, Bide from Ghent to Aix, WE were not more tlian a dozen steps from the men, who issued forth... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...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...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and made the pique right,... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...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 Nock by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...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...neck, stride by strid'e, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped ut to obey, Wherewith renown was rife, — All quelled...spirit ! what must be The madness of thy memory ! turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right,... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 pages
...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...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,... | |
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