How To Use Steed In A Sentence
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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The clothyard shafts found every crevice in their armor and the housings of the steeds.
The Bloody Crown of Conan
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The valiant one and his noble steed hiked up to the hill where the castle was.
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The haute école of classical equitation includes movements with direct military application, like the capriole which was originally intended to enable a horseman to use his steed to kick an attacker approaching from behind.
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 As the Shadowpact head home, the last image we see is Nightmaster, riding his coal-black steed into battle with a dragon, Sword of Night held high, laughing …  “Now THIS is the life!”
Shadowpact #22 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Entitled Aquila after the swooping eagle found in John Flamsteed's 1729 Atlas Coelestis, its merits do not really derive from any imitation of eagles actual or imagined perhaps luckily, given that Flamsteed's eagle resembles a grouse.
Chroma chamber ensemble – review
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And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
IX. On Reading the Bible (II)
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The Hammonds, intent on fraud, certainly would not have explained the proposed sale transaction to Mrs. Steed.
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The fourth horse is a color that's usually translated as "pale," as in Red D'eath's band--we see that again with Azraeuz's "pale steed"--but the actual Greek word is "chloros," meaning the pale yellow-green color associated with, say, zombies.
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Never mind, m'lor '!" the man said, goggling at the elvensteed.
This Scepter'd Isle
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Those steeds and elephants and human beings that formed the (unslain) remnant of the (Pandava) host uttered loud cries when thy son fell.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Boo-Khaloum and his steed were both wounded, and Denham was in a similar plight, with the skin of his face grazed by one arrow and two others lodged in his burnoos.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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Her cell phone goes off and spooks Stevie's steed.
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_ -- If you rub your bedsteede with squilla stamped with vinaigre, or with the leaves of cedar tree sodden in oil, you shall never feel punese.
Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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He pointed at her fine steed, which was currently occupied with kicking his hind legs in the air and stomping and snorting like an unbroken colt.
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Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed.
Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
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But what were the surprise and alarm of the Earl of Oxford and his companions, when they came to that part of the camp which had been occupied the day before by Campo-Basso and his Italians, who, reckoning men-at-arms and Stradiots, amounted to nigh two thousand men — not a challenge was given — not a horse neighed — no steeds were seen at picquet — no guard on the camp.
Anne of Geierstein
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Where the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white, gilt-reined steeds?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Prince shook off his drowsihead and opened his eyes, but of his steed could see nor sign nor aught of visible trace.
Arabian nights. English
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When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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` ` I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion; '' and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe
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Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed.
Stories of the Border Marches
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I whistled up my trusty steed and galloped across the badlands towards a rundown town, my mount kicking up grit with its hooves.
The Sun
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Moor circled round his opponent, as a hawk circles when about to make a swoop; his steed obeyed his rider with matchless quickness; at every attack of the infidel, it seemed as if the Christian knight must sink beneath his flashing scimiter.
Washington Irving
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/Then over the surges he drave: leapt sporting before the God/Sea-beasts that uprose all round from the depths, for their king they knew,/And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
On the Sublime
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They wore clothes that suggested the warm weather I had felt was just beginning, and their steeds only had blinders and saddles on.
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
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Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
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Beholding that chastiser of foes made steedless and driverless,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Belloc's was a grey and white stallion called Nightwind, an aptly named steed for he was as silent as he was fleet of foot.
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Een gedicht als een ding een glazen draaideur en de chinese ober die steeds terugkeert met andere schotels een parkwachter die zijn nagels bijvijlt tussen siberische kinderen uit maine een venus van de voortjid samen met een spin op de snelweg een glas moedermelk, een geel gesteven smoking een bij, een pennemes beide stekend, een vliegtuig dat oplost in dorpsregen een gedicht als een ding.
Gerrit Kouwenaar
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Their steeds, caparisoned with silk, lacquered leather and gold buckles, caracoled and curvetted as their riders put them through their paces.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river.
Chapter 7 - Part IX
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Milo's steed, a roan stallion with a flaxen mane and tail, looked at her with ears pricked up.
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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Trot beside breaking waves with your criollo steed at Playa Negra, one of Costa Rica's best surf breaks, and stay in beachfront bungalows.
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I dinna gie a proper sorting to yon twa silly jauds that gard me mak a bogle of you, and a fule of mysell — Ghaists! my certie, I sall ghaist them — If they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing, they wad play nae sic pliskies — it’s the wanton steed that scaurs at the windle-strae — Ghaists! wha e’er heard of ghaists in an honest house?
Saint Ronan's Well
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But now the deer turned to the right and made for a distant thicket, and Lionel saw the young hunter spring from his lagging steed, and, with a stout cord reeled around his arm, dash after the stag afoot, while hounds and hunters panted far behind.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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The host was well beseen with five hundred men with steeds and vesture.
The Nibelungenlied
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A crossroads lay before us, and stood in the middle of it was Master sat astride his steed, writing, as ever, in a small pocket book.
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You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
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It means that for much of the race the horses are barely cantering and it is not the pace of the steeds but their courage and stamina that matters.
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Some less able horsemen met with various accidents; for though it was a proverb of the time, that nothing was so bold as a blind horse, yet from this mode of equitation, where neither horse nor rider saw the way he was going, some steeds were overthrown, others backed upon dangerous obstacles; and the bones of the cavaliers themselves suffered much more than would have been the case in an ordinary march.
Count Robert of Paris
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‘It was a different matter when Jack Steedman had loads of weans going unpaid from door to door in Clydebank selling bingo tickets to raise funds,’ says Robertson.
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The sinews and muscles of the jet black steeds bulged and rippled as they trotted the coach around so that it pointed properly down the Beget Road.
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On the day of their wedding, he confesses, he will think that either 'Phoebus' steeds are foundered/Or Night kept chained below '.
Shakespeare
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Only that mighty mass of clouds called Arjuna, aided by Krishna like unto a powerful wind, with celestial weapon representing its fierce lightning, the white steeds, the rows of white cranes coursing underneath and the unbearable Gandiva, the rainbow ahead, is capable of extinguishing the blazing flame represented by Karna by means of its arrowy showers let off with unflagging steadiness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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It was a work of no common difficulty or danger; a steed of less "mettle and bone" had long since sunk in the effort; as it was, the Baron's boots were full of water, and Grey Dolphin's chamfrain more than once dipped beneath the wave.
Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers
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The new operational premises at Nursteed Road trading estate includes a cash-and-carry warehouse for coal and a wide variety of smokeless fuels, together with a fully equipped 6,000 square foot workshop for vehicle and plant servicing.
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He leaned against the elvensteed, cold, empty, and exhausted, trying to dismiss his sense of loss and unable to decide whether the loss of Mwynwen or that of the changeling was the most painful.
This Scepter'd Isle
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Special Mount: The antipaladin's special mount is identical to the paladin's special mount, except that it is a crossbreed of mundane steed and nightmare and is utterly evil.
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The steed stopped, and took the opportunity to reach down and grab a quick breakfast.
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Now when Kanmakan heard these words, he cried out, saying, “O villain, this I bestride is the steed whereof ye speak and after which ye seek, and ye would do battle with me for his sake’ So come out against me, all of you at once, and do you dourest for the nonce!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I heard the "wheep" of the shaft, and fancied I heard it strike; but the steed kept on!
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Gossip girl: Call us old schools, but sometimes the fairy tale ending requires the knight to get off his ass and saddle up his steed.
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I steered into the bike racks, and dismounted from my alloy steed, then rushed back through the opening in the chain link fence.
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An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li.
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Shortly afterward, the others heard whinnies and neighs and the two rescuers urging their steeds forward.
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Dat het aantal gebruikers van datingsites nog steeds groeit, is een feit.
The US Dating market. « The Paradigm Shift
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When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Then hastened all the race of Phrygia to the gates, to make the goddess a present of an Argive band ambushed in the polished mountain-pine, Dardania's ruin, a welcome gift to be to her, the virgin queen of deathless steeds; and with nooses of cord they dragged it, as it had been a ship's dark hull, to the stone-built fane of the goddess
The Trojan Women
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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The farmer had paused over Fred's respectable though broken-winded steed long enough to show that he thought it worth consideration, and it seemed probable that he would take it, with five-and-twenty pounds in addition, as the equivalent of Diamond.
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a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the "chamfron" of the steed, and
Ivanhoe
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It was high time; for, while the Disinherited Knight was pressing upon the Templar, Front-de-Boeuf had got nigh to him with his uplifted sword; but ere the blow could descend, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron of the steed, and Front-de-Boeuf rolled on the ground, both horse and man equally stunned by the fury of the blow.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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On the left wing of the horse Virgil appeared, in shining armour, completely fitted to his body; he was mounted on a dapple-grey steed, the slowness of whose pace was an effect of the highest mettle and vigour.
The Battle of the Books
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But hardly had we sat down ere we heard the tom-toming of the kettledrum and tantara of trumpets and clash of cymbals, and the rattling of war men's lances, and the clamors of assailants and the clanking of bits and the neighing of steeds, while the world was canopied with dense dust and sand clouds raised by the horses 'hoofs.
Tehran Winter
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I whistled up my trusty steed and galloped across the badlands towards a rundown town, my mount kicking up grit with its hooves.
The Sun
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The gallant steed bounded forward – the golden light was beaming from the sky – and we paused to watch his progress.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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Bring back the virtuous knight in his armor, astride a noble steed.
MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
The Phoenissae
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Hasan a steed of the best and equipped him in panoply and weaponed him with goodly weapons.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He wasted no more time with words, but ran towards the hollow where his steed had been hobbled, that is, the two front legs tied together so as to admit of moderate freedom without the risk of desertion.
The Prairie Chief
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She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed.
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I had no spurs, neither was my horse one to need the rowel; I rather held him in than urged him, for he was fresh as ever; and I knew that the black steed in front, if he breasted the steep ascent, where the track divided, must be in our reach at once.
Lorna Doone
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Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed.
Stories of the Border Marches
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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And romantic it certainly was — the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.
Chapter 1
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He also gave each of them fifty steeds all thoroughbreds and they got them guards and followers; and he assigned to them revenues and appointed them solde and stipends and made them his assistants, saying to them, “O my brothers, I and you are equal and there is no distinction between me and you twain,” — And
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They were standing aside and watching the progress of the procession, and contemplating the earliest opportunity of representing their grievances to high authority, when the Turkish general, or the seraskier, as the Syrians inaccurately styled him, suddenly reined in his steed, and said, in a loud voice,
Lothair
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Her steed was a kicking and screaming demon, its hooves shattering skulls and ribs as the wolves tried to overwhelm them.
Odyssey
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Call us old schools, but sometimes the fairy tale ending requires the knight to get off his ass and saddle up his steed.
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While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
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In her close-clinging habit, with her black braids securely pinned, a handful of lilies drooping at her waist, and the whole of her fair young figure invested with a sort of stately maidenliness, she formed a sufficient contrast to Rose, who, perched defiantly upon her wicked little steed, looked every inch a rogue.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
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The eye lingers on the fine features of a musician, or the graceful limbs of a dancing girl or the noble prancing of a caparisoned steed.
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After this interchange of greeting, the steed began to his provender with an eager dispatch, which showed old military habits; and the master, after looking on the animal with great complacency for about five minutes, said, — “Much good may it do your honest heart, Gustavus; — now must I go and lay in provant myself for the campaign.”
A Legend of Montrose
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Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Dog!" said the Templar, grinding his teeth, "I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion;" and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Our steed was a very lank, bony, long-eared mule, and the vehicle a rather disreputable looking old delivery wagon, kindly loaned to us by our grocer; but we were thankful for anything that would take us safely.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889
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The hippogriff is the steed that Ruggiero rides to save the naked maiden Angelica in Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso.
Angelica Lost and Found by Russell Hoban - review
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Cool logo too --- the little arrows show the jouster having his lance sent upward, which leads to being knocked off the steed.
I can just imagine (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The one-night event gives tips on how to bike safely and warmly over the snowy months, winter bike maintenance and parking your steed.
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This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney.
Novels by Eminent Hands
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Pelops was guiding, as he shook the reins, and with him was Hippodameia at his side, and in pursuit Myrtilus urged his steeds, and with him Oenomaus had grasped his couched spear, but fell as the axle swerved and broke in the nave, while he was eager to pierce the back of Pelops.
The Argonautica
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The sublimity is so overpowering as naturally to prompt the exclamation that if the divine steeds were to leap thus twice in succession they would pass beyond the confines of the world.
On the Sublime
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Ere the Christian could avail himself of this mishap, his nimble foeman sprung from the ground, and, calling on his steed, which instantly returned to his side, he leaped into his seat without touching the stirrup, and regained all the advantage of which the Knight of the Leopard hoped to deprive him.
The Talisman
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Moniker rasped under his breath and yanked the reigns, kicking his steed into action.
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Suddenly a king and his army galloped into town, mounted on powerful steeds.
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He also went with a Steeda wing and then the LX was primed and painted in Chevrolet Electron Blue.
You Know You Wanna Cap That Ass | Kung Fu Rodeo
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After he was dressed he kissed his sister lightly on the forehead, headed to the stables where he found his ever-ready steed.
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Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Shortly afterward, the others heard whinnies and neighs and the two rescuers urging their steeds forward.
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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/Then over the surges he drave: leapt sporting before the God/Sea-beasts that uprose all round from the depths, for their king they knew,/And for rapture the sea was disparted, and onward the car-steeds flew.
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He curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed.
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The contest, as portrayed in the film, is a centuries-old annual event restricted to the best Bedouin horsemen and the finest Arabian steeds.
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They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle.
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When Evan tries to mount his trusty steed, he bonks his superhero-sized chin on the saddle.
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Charles II appoints John Flamsteed to the new post of Astronomer Royal.
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The steed that he rides shall have toes for hooves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each produced many paintings showing the massed splendour of up to seven people mounted on their taunting steeds, dressed in their finest taunting 'yellows' of purple underwired bra and orange waders with the specially-bred and trained packs of taunting hamsters 'showing' and baying, eager to be off taunting.
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Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
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Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks, roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Where is the horse, the steed that bears the triumphant general, the untamable champion loyal only to the skilled commander, so beloved of great leaders from Alexander to Napoleon?
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Thousands sink upon the ground overpowered, to be trodden under foot of the flying steed, or their bones to be left whitening the incarnadined field.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
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Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
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The courageous protagonist ventured slightly from the kingdom, reaching for his noble steed.
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But when they came aland they made their ship fast, and then they rode awhile on their noble steeds through the murk wild-wood.
The Story of the Volsungs
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The royal horseman bestrides a warlike steed, which is trampling under foot the figure of a turbanned Turk.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Faster than some contemporary hostler can rustle up fresh horses or the unseen manager can replace fleeing steeds who take legal tender while tending behind the isthmus separating employee from customer.
When Is a Bar Not a Bar? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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– The days of chivalry are no more: the knight no longer sallies forth in ponderous armour, mounted upon a steed as invulnerable as himself.
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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As we watched, Yellow and his fellow cavaliers appeared on their mighty steeds, amid such swirling clouds of fog and so many tosses of perfectly conditioned hair that we were transported to Camelot - or maybe a Bon Jovi video.
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When the meal was over and various other activities had been taken care of, the great steed reassumed his earlier form of an actual horse and allowed the two to mount.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
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The steed carrying it brayed, its coarse voice bellowing out like a foghorn.
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She stood before the wide-open doors to the stable, eying a chestnut steed that had greeted her with a short nicker.
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If the idea was to match Steed's well-aged charms with Gambit's brash animalism, it doesn't gel.
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The blonde man was thrown backwards of his horse; dark coloured steed that refused to panic in the following chaos.
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Each morning we have to prepare our steeds, check their hooves, talcum powder them, saddle them and harness them.
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There, I was introduced to his fellow members of the hunt, resplendent in their finery on top of their steeds, and I got my first inkling of why hunting generates such hatred among its opponents.
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Even the lowest ranking soldier could maintain a stable of miniscule steeds.
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Their steeds were coated in lather, after their wild run weaving between the tall ancient trees of Nevermore's forest.
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Jockeys were usually wealthy men who at first owned their horses, and rode naked on bareback steeds.
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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Dog!" said the Templar, grinding his teeth, "I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy order of the Temple of Zion;" and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette toward the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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He urged his charger on to the midst of the battle plain and the two fell to derring do of cut and thrust, but it was not long before the Frank foined the Moslem with the lance point; and, toppling him from his steed, took him prisoner and led him off crestfallen.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is the ultimate test of skill and endurance of both the rider and his steed.
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Alas, Busteed failed to persuade the jury that his client's story was quite as true as it was interesting, and the fame of The Pickwick Papers has in fact outlived that of the roving and unhallowed lust of Mrs. Beardsley.
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Of gold was the yoke that linked the necks of his steeds whiter than the snow; and on his shoulders flashed his targe with figures welded in gold; while a gorgon of bronze like that which gleams from the aegis of the goddess was bound upon the frontlet of his horses, ringing out its note of fear with many a bell.
Rhesus
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A group of horsemen in chaps and buckskin coats thunders up atop black-and-white steeds.
Thai Noon
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Then the meiny of the Moslems raised their voices, reciting the first verses of the Chapter of the Cow,399 whilst the dead were trampled under hoofs of steeds, and the heralds of the Greeks cried out,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The blonde man was thrown backwards of his horse; dark coloured steed that refused to panic in the following chaos.
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The medieval mood prevails throughout Friday and Saturday, with carols in the old Yarn Market, craft stalls in the castle grounds and a piggyback quintain tournament at 7.30 pm on Saturday - tots for knights, dads for steeds.
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I dreamed I was in a flowing gown, whisked away on a beautiful black steed, safely encompassed in the arms of a dashing stranger.
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Maybe a gift of a blood-red steed is a coded message to go to Hell.
Periods of rain today, highs in the mid-forties
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Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
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Hunter cooed to him softly, showing a softer side to his draconic steed than he did to most people.
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Whoa now!" he called soothingly, as the steed evinced a disposition to sit down on the side railing.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes
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In 1720 he succeeded Flamsteed as Astronomer Royal, a position he was to hold for 21 years despite being 64 years old when appointed.
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From the other side of the stadium came thundering a black steed bearing a small rider armored in gold-lustred glass.
The Golden Torc
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This particular flavour of Ragnarok is only survived by Muire, one of the Valkryie analogues, the Serpent, the Wolf, and one of the outre steeds that the Valkyries/angels ride.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear
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Ordained in 1675, Flamsteed received the income of the living of Burstow, Surrey from 1684.
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The strong high-mettled steed of Kentucky and Tennessee, the light "pacer" of
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Lord Randal's steed he nicher'd loud.
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If they catch the wave skilfully, the skimboard is pivoted by their strong limbs and they pirouette in an air-mixed broth of water and sand, and triumphantly ride their steeds back to the beach.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
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Three suitors had kissed it, mounted their red roan steeds and ridden away.
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This all changed irrevocably after the storm allowed those riders and their "steeds" to run from the grounds and off up into the high hills of Taconic where the Taconics in a dense tangle commingle with the mounts of Graylock and Bash Bish.
Perquampi
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Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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Nothing more was needed than a steady hold on the reins of her trusty steed.
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The skinsuit obviuosly cost considerably more than the schrader-valved steed he is astride.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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If this (as it ought) bee granted, then how venterous are those women that dare venter to doe otherwise, and so to refuse, and by refusing to dispise that order, which the most wise and allmighty God hath appointed, and in steed thereof to chuse their owne pleasures?
The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie
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Where is the horse, the steed that bears the triumphant general, the untamable champion loyal only to the skilled commander, so beloved of great leaders from Alexander to Napoleon?
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Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
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Like the trusty steed that he was, Blackgale clopped down the road, and before too long, she was at the gates of Zetapol.
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Her steed was a kicking and screaming demon, its hooves shattering skulls and ribs as the wolves tried to overwhelm them.
Odyssey
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The dust raised by the hoofs of that horse as it walked in close adjacence to Arjuna, looked as beautiful as that raised by the celestial steed Uchchaisravas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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The Keri is better: "a heifer threshing"; the strongest were used for threshing, and as the law did not allow their mouth to be muzzled in threshing (De 25: 4), they waxed wanton with eating. bellow as bulls -- rather, "neigh as steeds," literally, "strong ones," a poetical expression for steeds (see on [994] Jer 8: 16) [Maurer].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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From far and near came valiant knights from all the neighbouring provinces, habited in every conceivable style of richest armour; yet none surpassed Saint David in the sumptuousness of his plume and burgonet, the trappings of his steed, the richness of his scarf, the splendour of his shield and breastplate, or of his whole armour, which, from his lofty helm to his knightly spurs, shone with resplendent beauty.
The Seven Champions of Christendom
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The noble steed which he reined bounded and caracoled, and displayed his spirit and agility in a manner which might have troubled a less admirable horseman than the
The Talisman
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When Alfonso left the city of the Cid he brought with him the body of the campeador, mounted upon his steed Bavieca, and solemnly and slowly the train wound on until the corpse of the mighty dead was brought to the cloister of the monastery of Cardeña.
Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
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If thou can lift me on horseback and mount thee behind me and bring me to my own land, thou shalt have honour in this world and a reward on the day of band calling to band,92 for I have no strength left to steady myself; and if this be my last day, the steed is thine alway, for thou art worthier of him than any other.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Their noble meiny now brought saddled before the gate the many steeds, and to them came forth thee stranger knights.
The Nibelungenlied
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Leaving their overnight camp by the riverbed, they turn their sure-footed local steeds toward the steep, rocky outline of the Spur.
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Despite visits from both beaus, with J-WOWWs display up similar to a knight upon a white steed (or Escalade) with a fistful of roses, a prior relationships crumbled over a array of tearful duck-phone conversations.
'Jersey Shore' recap: Ruined relationships, but perfect hair | EW.com
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It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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It was high time; for, while the Disinherited Knight was pressing upon the Templar, Front-de-Boeuf had got nigh to him with his uplifted sword; but ere the blow could descend, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron [84-16] of the steed, and
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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I slew him at the first onfall; I gave his steed to you;
National Epics
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Tizzy placed her arms round her brother's neck and clung tightly while he played the restive steed, and raised Cook's ire to red-hot point by purposely kicking one of the Windsor chairs, making it scroop on the beautifully-white floor of the front kitchen, and making the queen of the domain rush out at him, looking red-eyed and ferocious, for the onion-juice had affected her.
Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
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Nay, take him alive: a seemlier knight never backed steed!" cried the gallant Americans.
Essays in Little
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Then Drona's son, that slayer of foes, stringing his unstringed bow, and seeing that his men had meanwhile speedily yoked other excellent steeds unto his car, sped thousands of arrows (at his foe).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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There were bailees, the two wheeled bullock carts with bright canopies, and palkees, and there were graceful English phaetons or buggies, drawn by well groomed Arab steeds.
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“Dog!” said the Templar, grinding his teeth, “I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion;” and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe
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Our phaeton was a small, white, swan-shaped carriage, ornamented with golden designs, and propelled by a galvanic battery in the graceful swan-head, which at my request took the place of the ordinary steed.
Strange Visitors
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The unidentified man was caught on camera taking his trusty steed for a feed at a branch in Swansea.
The Sun
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Now Miriam was the doughtiest of the folk of her time and the unique pearl of her age and tide; for her father had taught her, whilst she was yet little, on steeds to ride and dive deep during the darkness of the night in the battle tide.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
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The address of the riders recovered their steeds by use of the bridle and spur; and having glared on each other for an instant with eyes which seemed to flash fire through the bars of their visors, each made a demivolt, and retiring to the extremity of the 10 lists, received a fresh lance from the attendants.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
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At least I imagined so this morning, with our craft "upon a wind," whilst standing in the weather gangway, and watching her plunge and curvet, held up to her course by the helm, as a steed by a curb, obeying its rider; but I did not think the motion as agreeable as that derived from equestrian exercise.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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As Wen Yi was about to fall down from his steed, Wei Hong lunged his sword at Wen Yi's chest and took his life at last.