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 Oxford and Cambridge review - Page 1001846Full view - About this book
| Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...galloped abreast. 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...the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 4 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. 'Twas moonset at starting ; but, while we drew... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...pace Neck Ъу neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in шу saddle and niade its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and...'Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear; At Boom, a great yellow star came out to see; At... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...abreast. 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...each stirrup and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting;... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...abreast. 2. 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...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 3. 'Twas inooiiset... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...my saddle and made its girth tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Kebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped...'Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear ; At Boom, a great yellow star came out to see ;... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...should be very quick, with full force. *' We kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made...girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the piu.u« right, _ Rebnckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...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...bit, — Nor galloped less steadily Roland, a whit. 'T was moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear... | |
| Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...abreast. B 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...cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped lesss steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...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...shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the.cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, — Nor galloped less steadily Roland, a whit. .'Twas moonset... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...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...bit, — Nor galloped less steadily Roland, a whit. 'T was moonset at starting ; but, while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear... | |
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