How To Use Stirrup In A Sentence
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The last issue had a good letter from someone who signed himself Conscript, describing how he and his comrades were forced to waste their time in polishing brass, blacking the rubber hoses on stirrup pumps with boot polish, scraping broom handles with razor blades, and so on.
As I Please
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Ian stood in his stirrups to look down into the penfold.
Drums of Autumn
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He slipped his foot into the stirrup of the heavy black western saddle and placed his fingertips on the side of the horses' neck.
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They enter his office to be faced with a comfortable leather sofa and an examination couch, complete with stirrups.
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Other safety items are available that can be attached to reins, stirrups and martingales, as well as fluorescent saddlecloths and exercise rugs.
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Reptiles have a single ear ossicle, the stapes or stirrup bone.
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That was called the stirrup-horn, because after they drank it the men put their feet to the stirrups and sprang upon their horses and started.
Viking Tales
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She leans into the turn, finely balanced, feet spraddled and pressing the stirrups.
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She needs a pair of jumar clamps and stirrups so that she can ascend the rope.
The Wall
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These horsemen rode with short stirrups, in snaffle bridles with a loose rein, in an uncollected, free forward manner that was the exact opposite of the extreme collection of the Continental riding school, with its emphasis on curb bits.
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Additionally, the stirrups can be useful before the impact, to brace the rider more firmly against the cantle.
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The stirrup bone exerts pressure at the oval window of the inner ear, further increasing the sound energy up to fifteen times.
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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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He says that horses have body language, and that your communication with them doesn't and shouldn't start when your foot hits the stirrup.
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A pillion was a padded cushion with straps which sometimes had on one side a sort of platform-stirrup.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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Flat-soled shoes increase the risk of the foot slipping through a stirrup and getting caught-up.
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It seemed that everything was suddenly moving slowly as she felt the reins slip from her grasp, her feet from the stirrups and herself from the saddle.
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The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
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A small ear bone called the stirrup that helps transmit sound to the inner ear.
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Nay the very mode of riding: for now no man on a level with his age but will trot a l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method, in which, according to Shakspeare,
The French Revolution
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Thinking innocently that he wanted to shake it, I gave it to him freely, only to find it lashed with a leather thong and clamped between the stirrup and his foot as he spurred his horse into a gallop.
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And I saw in a flash what it would be to remain here, or in some such place; never to cross horse again, or breathe the free air of Heaven, never to hear the clink of sword against stirrup, or the rich tones of M. d'Agen's voice calling for his friend!
A Gentleman of France
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Adam had untied the stallion and was trying to get his foot up into the stirrup while the horse was trying all kinds of foolishness to stop him.
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At Hulagur's call the lancer rode up to the waiting Apache, stretched out a booted foot in the heavy stirrup, and held down a hand to bring
The Defiant Agents
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Together, they have scaled the stony scramble of Stirrup Crag at Yewbarrow, hit the heights of Helvellyn twice and negotiated the precarious pathway of Striding Edge.
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A well-padded leg holder for the nonsurgical leg, such as a low lithotomy stirrup, is needed to prevent unnecessary pressure on muscles and bony prominences.
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Stirrup pants and fur coats captured the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems that the cause of the stirrup breaking was either metal fatigue or some manufacturing defect.
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Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There was a stirrup cup passed around -- not nearly enough of it.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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A small ear bone called the stirrup that helps transmit sound to the inner ear.
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The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup.
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Other safety items are available that can be attached to reins, stirrups and martingales, as well as fluorescent saddlecloths and exercise rugs.
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All I can say is, thank God for cotton casuals, fleece sweatshirts and elastic-waist stirrup pants!
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The men now added their coats, and Wemple, for additional traction, unsaddled the roan, and spread the cinches, stirrup leathers, saddle blanket, and bridle in the way of the wheels.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
Archive 2008-07-01
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Femoral nerve injury is usually believed to be caused by prolonged position in the lithotomy stirrups leading to partial eschemia from kinking as the nerve passes under the inguinal ligament.
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She stood up in her stirrups to see where the others had gone.
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The group applied to the foundation for cash to buy special leg protectors, stirrups, skullcaps and riding gloves.
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The Indians had copied saddles, stirrups, the crupper, and the lariat from the Spanish explorers, who, in turn had borrowed these innovations from the Moors Arabic people from North Africa, who had previously occupied Spain for 500 years.
Diffusion of Innovations
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Stirrup pants and fur coats captured the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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He put his left foot in the stirrup, and then sat there.
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His possessions lay around him, including a bit and bridle from his horse at his head, pairs of stirrup mounts and spurs by his feet, and a handled iron cauldron.
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Adam had checked his cinch then stepped into the stirrup before swinging on to the chestnut stallion.
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The circulating nurse is careful to pad the stirrups to prevent injury to the child's peroneal nerve.
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I stood up in my stirrups as tall as I could get and shouted, "Tally ho!" at the top of my lungs.
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The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet charier than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.
The Monastery
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I like the tangible reward of a blue ribbon after I've subjected myself to the torture of riding without stirrups in an equitation class.
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A pillion was a cushion strapped on behind a man's saddle, and from it sometimes hung a small platform or double stirrup on which a woman rider could rest her feet.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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With a round to go of the 4190-metre journey, the leathers holding her right stirrup iron came loose and dangled under the horse's belly for almost 2000m.
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After the stirrup cup traditional drink the hunt moved off for Ballymullen.
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But he would be their "pardner" and stirrup-brother, foot to foot.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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In the moment of placing our mind, it's like we're mounting a horse: we put our foot in the stirrup and pull ourselves up to the saddle.
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‘If you look at classical Greek statues of people on horseback, they don't have saddles, horseshoes, or stirrups,’ Olsen said.
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She was reluctant to leave but headed off into the darkness, reins fastened to the saddle and stirrups run up the leathers.
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She stood up in her stirrups to see where the others had gone.
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Equally important are the two tiny muscles, the tensor tympani (hammer muscle) and stapedius (stirrup muscle).
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It was scary because I could only put one foot in the stirrup and it kept slipping out.
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She stood up in her stirrups to see where the others had gone.
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Reptiles have a single ear ossicle, the stapes or stirrup bone.
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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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Stirrup pants and fur coats captured the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he hath a mind to ride me, he binds on his feet a thing of iron called a stirrup and lays on my back another thing called a saddle, which he fastens by two girths, passed under my armpits.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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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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There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
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When one considers the wisdom of having women lying down with their legs in lithotomy stirrups, one can see that although the thighs are abducted in this position the sacrum and coccyx are being pressed upwards and consequently the anteroposterior diameters of the cavity and outlet of the pelvis are reduced.
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The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea.
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She was rattling on almost feverishly, never looking at him, restless in her saddle, shifting bridle, adjusting stirrups, gun-case, knotting and reknotting her neckerchief, all with that desperate attempt at composure which betrays the courage that summons it.
The Firing Line
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
Archive 2008-07-01
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But I forever have one boot in the stirrup of my roping saddle and the other firmly planted in the stainless steel iron of my English saddle.
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Back to the horse, to be again assailed by Number Two for not having obeyed the order about the bridoon and stirrup-irons.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
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The metal stirrup bit into the arch of my foot, but I pressed against it even harder.
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Sanders was accidentally unseated on his way to the winner's circle after losing a stirrup iron after Chateau Istana spooked at a camera car, but remained unscathed and was complimentary of the winning performance.
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He took my waist with one arm and offered his other hand up, ‘Just take the other foot out of the stirrup and swing it over on this side and slide down.’
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The youngest was only 4, but his stirrups are cinched up to accommodate his little legs and there are spurs on the heels of his boots.
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Connected with the malleus is another small bone, called the incus, or anvil, which is connected with another, called the stapes, or stirrup, from its shape.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
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Reports arrived to say incendiaries had set fire to the top of the telephone exchange and once again stirrup pumps and buckets of water were rushed upstairs where the ceiling above the equipment was burning steadily.
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Her mount bolted, unseating her but her foot was entangled in a stirrup.
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The savages bestrode them easily, just over the beasts 'middle pelvis, high-stirruped but without reins, and indeed far too far from the slashing, screaming heads to make reins even possible-rode so easily that in silhouette, savage and beast flowed into one teratological myth, like Siamese-twin centaurs.
Anywhen
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John's completed saddles are 100% ready to ride with their custom mohair cinches, latigo and stirrups.
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I stood up in my stirrups as tall as I could get and shouted, "Tally ho!" at the top of my lungs.
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The sound makes the eardrum vibrate, which in turn causes a series of three tiny bones (the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup) in the middle ear to vibrate.
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My imagination conjured up some horrible thoughts with these shoes, what happened if they fell off the horse and couldn't get their foot out of the stirrup?
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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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His balance enables him to ride horses with his toes barely in the stirrup.
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Here is the mounting-block where he stood in his stirrups to salute.
The Times Literary Supplement
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First and foremost, is the fact that race horses by and large have never been mounted by someone putting a foot in the stirrup.
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Beside the sugar, oxen tug and buck ploughs over stony earth, men ride high-stepping horses with long stirrups and straw cowboy hats pulled down over their eyes, looking like extras from Hollywood.
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Three small bones (the hammer, anvil, and stirrup bones) vibrate with the sound, passing the vibrations to the inner ear.
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As he settled himself in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of
Waifs and Strays Part 1
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We were greeted on all sides, and escorted in triumph to the village; the men riding _jerid_ -- that is, firing from horseback at full speed, hanging over by one stirrup with the bridle in their mouths, quivering their long lances in the air, throwing and catching them again at full gallop, yelling and shouting their war-cries.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
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The men now added their coats, and Wemple, for additional traction, unsaddled the roan, and spread the cinches, stirrup leathers, saddle blanket, and bridle in the way of the wheels.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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Will slid his foot up into the stirrup of the horse's saddle and prepared to pull himself up.
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Jane put one foot in the near stirrup and turned to look at the stranger.
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Her mount bolted, unseating her but her foot was entangled in a stirrup.
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The Indians had copied saddles, stirrups, the crupper, and the lariat from the Spanish explorers, who in turn had borrowed these innovations from the Moors Arabic people from North Africa, who had previously occupied Spain for seven hundred years.
Diffusion of Innovations
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The footplate of the stirrup which serves as the innermost link of the ossicle chain is movably mounted in the opening of the oval window of the inner ear which faces the middle ear.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 - Presentation Speech
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She smirked as he rose to a seat with the help of his horse and the saddle stirrup.
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These impatient coxcombs think that all men, like themselves, are miserable, save when in saddle and stirrup.
Quentin Durward
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Jane put one foot in the near stirrup and turned to look at the stranger.
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My partner (who notices these things more than I do) has warned me that she has seen the return of drop waisted, bubble and frill skirts, bandanas, stirrup bubblegum jeans, and stonewashed denim.
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'What the ----' (any competent person who knows barrack life can fill in the blank) 'do you mean by letting your bridoon and stirrup-irons lie rusting here?
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
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And this would he repeat, until he had drained what he called his stirrup cup, at every shop in the place where the poisonous liquor was vended.
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1
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Other safety items are available that can be attached to reins, stirrups and martingales, as well as fluorescent saddlecloths and exercise rugs.
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The assortment of straps and leather thongs and long, heavy stirrups annoyed him.
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Jane put one foot in the near stirrup and turned to look at the stranger.
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There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
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Stirrup pants and fur coats captured the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even though she was chubby, her shoulder-length curly hair framed an attractive, well-made-up face, and she wore her red stirrup pants and red-and-black angora sweater with panache.
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The stapes, or stirrup, has its end of an oval shape, which fits a small hole called fenestra ovalis, in that part of the ear called the labyrinth, or innermost chamber of the ear.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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She was extra glad now that she had watched the men saddle their horses, watched how the cinch was tightened, and how to put one's foot in the stirrup and swing into the saddle.
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It was the custom, after having unsaddled one's mount, to pass a hasty oil-rag over bit and bridoon and stirrups, and then to fall to upon the grooming of the horse.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
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Mr. Bearsley would never pardon me did I let you go without what he call a stirrup-cup to keep you from the ills that lurk in the wind of the Serra.
The Snare
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His small face, adorned with straggling blond whiskers and as wrinkled and rough as a winter apple, was hidden by a large oil-cloth hat lined with felt; a sort of gray coutil coat was drawn up to his hips and bagged around his stomach, while his trousers stopped at the knees and disclosed his bare legs reddened by the rubbing of the stirrup-straps, and his blue hose, which hung over his shoes.
Over Strand and Field
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But the first time I tried it, I put the wrong foot in the right stirrup and wound up sitting backwards on the horse, watching it swat flies while the crowd around me cracked up laughing.
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She nearly fell headlong, in fact, but she caught a stirrup just in time and steadied herself.
A TIME OF WAR
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I like the tangible reward of a blue ribbon after I've subjected myself to the torture of riding without stirrups in an equitation class.
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The position is slightly tricky to get into: Both scoutwalkers need to disengage their leg stirrups.
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He put his feet in the stirrups.
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I teach my students that as they are putting their foot in the stirrup, they should mentally picture everything else that is on their mind then picture themselves dumping it over in a corner of the arena.
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We spent days ‘shooting’ each other with our toy guns and kicking make-believe stirrups into imaginary horses.
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Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English costume, or ride rising in their stirrups, -- in the most headlong manner; nothing but insubordination, eleutheromania, confused unlimited opposition in their heads.
The French Revolution
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a gilt head in his hand, and a bundle in a handkerchief over his shoulder, exciting the cupidity of every Irish raparee who passes him, by his resemblance to a Jew pedlar who has sent forward his pack -- Linton, tired of trailing his long legs, exalted in state upon an Irish garron, without stirrups, and a halter on its head, tempting every one to ask --
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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I find when I go flat laying way back I just control the glider with the rear wires and if needed dropping one of my feet out of the foot stirrup to the base tube.
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My partner has warned me that she has seen the return of drop-waisted, bubble and frill skirts, bandanas, stirrup bubblegum jeans, and stonewashed denim.
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Connected with the malleus is another small bone, called the incus, or anvil, which is connected with another, called the stapes, or stirrup, from its shape.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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Rose cupped his knee in the stirrup of his hands, tilted his head.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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“The invention of the stirrup was a vital one in the history of mounted warfare, Doctor,” Spock said.
Time for Yesterday
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The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
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My partner (who notices these things more than I do) has warned me that she has seen the return of drop waisted, bubble and frill skirts, bandanas, stirrup bubblegum jeans, and stonewashed denim.
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On the bottom when you look at this, here is this stirrup shaped bone here which we would call the stirrup next to a bone marked by an “I”, which is the anvil, and the bone next to it marked by an “M”, which is the malleus, or hammer.
What a difference a day makes. - The Panda's Thumb
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What struck me was the music in the funeral parade, the cortege, the boots backward in the stirrups.
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The stirrup leathers rubbed raw patches on his legs.
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Though his shaggy little horse showed no signs of distress, Malcolm kicked his feet free from the stirrups and descended, for his journey had been a long one, the day was poisonously hot and the steppe across which he had ridden, for all its golden beauty, its wealth of blue cornflour and yellow genista, had been wearisome.
The Book of All-Power
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He slipped his left foot out of the stirrup but his right foot got stuck, his agent said.
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The caparison horse is led behind the caisson tacked with an empty saddle with rider's boots reversed in the stirrups, a symbol of a warrior who will never ride again.
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I saw Rowbotham pinned under a fallen horse only a few yards away; Cheeseman, his face a bloody mask, was stretched supine beside him, his limbs asprawl; Ilderim, with his left arm dangling, was half-up on one knee, clutching at my stirrup.
Fiancée
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Sometimes I would throw a stirrup over a saddle to tighten the cinch.
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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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Coby's great uncle tightened the cinch and put a boot in the little mare's saddle stirrup.
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The wrap-around leggings will allow them to keep warm and protected from the stirrups.
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The middle ear is an air-filled cavity which consists of an eardrum and three tiny, interconnected bones - the hammer, anvil, and stirrup.
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Shouting strange words of power, and standing in his stirrups, he brought the ancient periapt to life, its eyes shining like twin suns.
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Baseball players would cut apart their socks and add material to elongate the stirrup and give the "knicker" effect.
It's too cold for people to sit outside at State Street Brats.
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With a very audible gulp Brian hooked his right foot into the stirrup.
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It was funny to see Peter in a Turkish army-saddle, riding with the long Boer stirrup and the slouch of the backveld.
Greenmantle
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Gwen checked the girth, pulled down the stirrups and quickly swung into the saddle.
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That was called the stirrup-horn; because after they drank it the men put their feet to the stirrups and sprang upon their horses and started.
Viking Tales
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Through the lens Sharpe could see the carbines slung on their shoulders, and on each horse there was an obscene lump behind the stirrup where the rider had strapped a netful of forage for his mount.
Sharpe's Eagle
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Those who knew me used to call me 'Brimstone Betty;' and in my own family I went by the name of the 'Bold Dragoon,' much to the miscontentment of my father, who tried hard to bring me to a more feminine habit of Body and frame of mind, both by affectionate expostulation, and by assiduous larruping with a stirrup leather.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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It has commonly been inferred that the stapes (or ‘stirrup’), a bone in the cheek region of early tetrapods, was important for transmitting airborne vibrations to the inner ear.
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The stirrups we found date back to the 14th century and as far as we know, are the only known find on the site which is contemporary with the battle.
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The stirrup is now considered of little use, except to support the left foot, and many of the best riding-masters make their pupils ride without one, and to put their arms behind them, while the master holds the longe and urges the horse to his speed.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Shortened stirrups misplace the legs in a forward position for the dressage rider.
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One foot caught in the stirrup
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Now, when you mount a horse, you simply push your boot in to the stirrup.
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It was a custom in olden days when a man was ready to journey, for one who loved him to bring a glass of wine which he drank in the saddle; and this was called the stirrup or parting cup.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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Verna pulled her horse around and put a foot into the stirrup.
NAKED EMPIRE
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For his 1972 "Stravinsky Violin Concerto," the female dancers wear black leotards and black tights with stirrups over their pointe shoes, a look that elongates the leg.
...And Tread All Over
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The rest of us had to make shift as we could, and I rigged up a "sawbuck" pack-saddle, with rope loops for stirrups and a blanket across it to sit on.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
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The leather was dull and dusty, and the metal of the bits and stirrups of the English saddle seemed to be tarnished.
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They cut two metres of thatch from around the chimney and used a stirrup pump to dowse the smouldering straw.
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PETER STIGTER & JONAS GUSTAVSSON Jil Sander Best Casual Chic JIL SANDER Milan: A recipe for stylish comfort: Take one pair of high-grade black stirrup pants, add a bright sweater, yank on chic boots, and off you go.
The Runways' Best, Worst and Weirdest
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Dick pointed out her horse, an alert bay thoroughbred, stallion at that, under a small Australian saddle with steel stirrups, and double-reined and single-bitted.
CHAPTER XII
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While abroad, Burr "consoled" himself with the drink and thought it good for his health: "My uncle Stephen lived on milk punch," Burr remembered in his journal, "and at the age of eighty-six, mounted by the stirrup a very gay horse, and galloped off with me twelve miles without stopping, and was, I thought, less fatigued than I.
A Tasty Tonic
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Undersized rebar, stirrups tied too far apart and failure to leave long enough rebar protrusions from the footings to tie the posts to were the main mistakes.
Cinder block vs brick
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The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
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The table should be configured to accommodate the patient while in lithotomy stirrups.
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Pressure on the peroneal nerve by lithotomy stirrups may result in paraesthesia and foot drop.
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The incus moves with the malleus and passes on the vibrations to the third bone, which is shaped like a tiny stirrup (with an opening not much larger than the eye of a needle) and therefore called the stapes (sta/peez; "stirrup" L).
The Human Brain
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Each had a felt square, edges bound in leather, simple stirrups dangling - but there was nothing in the way of a girth to tie the pad onto the horse.
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Prices were strongest for RM's horse riding gear - a packsaddle brought more than $5,000, leather stirrups $1,100, and a pair of spurs sold for more than $900.
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B ` ism Allah" (a Moor mounts and dismounts in the name of God), with a man at his stirrups, he sinks without an effort into his saddle, amidst a furbelow of white robes, which he has afterwards arranged carefully for him.
In the Tail of the Peacock
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On a fine day, straddle a horse, stir your stirrups and hack through Glentress forest.
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These horsemen rode with short stirrups, in snaffle bridles with a loose rein, in an uncollected, free forward manner that was the exact opposite of the extreme collection of the Continental riding school, with its emphasis on curb bits.
