Nobody should ever try to fight an earth-born chimaera, unless he can first get upon the back of an aerial steed. |
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Here was the reason why the steed had not approached the rick in a straight line. |
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The good steed, as if he understood what was said to him, pawed the ground and arched his head. |
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He made a few turns around the room, astraddle of his chair, and ended by a grand somersault, as if his steed had dismounted him. |
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When the monk had gone a little further, he met one who rode an armored steed. |
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Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth. |
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Although he was described as a gentleman's steed, he had the manners of a pack-horse. |
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Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle. |
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I thank you, Captain, I shall use my own steed, which is waiting for me close at hand. |
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And he brought back with him from that land a steed of the gods, nine feet high. |
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He steered for the open country, abandoning the tow-path, and swinging his steed down a rutty lane. |
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As this rider passed, he checked his steed, and called him of the Maypole by his name. |
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A steed led by the squire in dester was the destrier or dextrarius, or war-horse. |
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The wild steed sought to fling up his head to shake off this anguishing weight of seventy odd pounds. |
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Are thy relations with thy driver, I wonder, those of the Bedouin and his steed? |
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Denis knew it must be bullocky's steed, and they had not to ask a question to gather that it was. |
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Our steed was then put in again in a few seconds, and we proceeded on our way. |
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Then came the knight marshal on a caparisoned steed, himself in a suit of gilt armour, and in a richly embroidered surcoat. |
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We'll take the steed out where he is, The gold where EER it be, And we'll away to some unco land, And married we shall be. |
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My malison upon the false Normans who have separated me from my good steed at a time when I most need his aid. |
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The picked crew bend to their oars, and the galley leaps forward, like a mettled steed who knows his master's voice. |
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Boreas, enamor'd of no few of these, The pasture sought, and cover'd them in form280 Of a steed azure-maned. |
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Night was falling, and at any moment Jan Chinn might whistle up his dreaded steed from the darkening scrub. |
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Harry secured the second wallaby, and black Billy was given the Orpington rooster as his steed. |
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And Odin was forced to mount his steed and to return to his own land of warmth and pleasure. |
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Unc Simmy swung his steed through a ruined gateway where the Virginia creeper and honeysuckle hid the gateposts and wall. |
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Lindley was reining in his own steed to keep pace with the white horse. |
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De Spain unobtrusively spurred his steed to greater activity. |
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Hans Marais reached the quince hedge first and sprang off his steed. |
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Pansy went, like the steed of Adonis, as if she told the steps. |
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The first time Ihopped on this trusty steed it was abit disappointing because Iwas left feeling quite seasick. |
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There was no urging of the sorry steed straining at its belled collar. |
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Sheer audacity is at times the surest steed a man can bestride. |
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My friend Caldecott bestrode a powerful steed suited to his size. |
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Iftikhar was breasting them, on a steed the pride of El Halebah's stables. |
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He drew in his rein, and stopped his steed at one end of the breastwork. |
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The caparison of the knightly steed appears to have been of five kinds. |
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The contemplation of the infirm and lonely steed overcame him. |
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Find out from Koshchei the deathless whence he got so good a steed. |
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Trusia fondly drew the satiny muzzle of her own steed down to her cheek. |
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Judge Pyncheon's neck is too precious to be risked on such a contingency as a stumbling steed. |
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Her steed a little higher soar'd, and then dropt hawkwise to the earth. |
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But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed. |
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Another task is given him, to bridle the fire-breathing steed of Hiisi. |
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There dashes a horseman with foaming steed and tightly-gathered rein! |
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A BROOMSTICK which had long served a witch as a steed complained of the nature of its employment, which it thought degrading. |
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The new moon is a golden shoe for the hoof of his heroes' steed. |
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The prince, spurring his gallant steed, pushed on in eager pursuit. |
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The steed was staked out in the field of the mushrooms of life. |
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The stabler of the iron horse was up early this winter morning by the light of the stars amid the mountains, to fodder and harness his steed. |
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The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw. |
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I obeyed him, and walked down to the traveller, by this time struggling himself free of his steed. |
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When he recognized Lady Brandon he waved his cap, and when they met he sprang from his inanimate steed, at which the bay horse shied. |
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The bell on the neck of the knacker's old steed tolls him to the grave. |
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He almost felt the warm body of the noble steed beneath him. |
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However that might have been, the priest, dismounting, led his steed by the bridle in search of some place to which he could secure him. |
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It was regretable that the steed did not measure up to her rider. |
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Where to find a resting place for my tired steed and my aching head! |
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He was a fine, haughty-looking savage, fancifully decorated, and mounted on a high-mettled steed, with gaudy trappings and equipments. |
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Join Shrek and his trusty steed Donkey as they embark on a quest to rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona from a fire-breathing dragon. |
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On seeing me, he suddenly drew in his little steed, and seemed inclined to turn back, but on second thought apparently judged it better to continue his course as before. |
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In three more days the seven years would be at an end, when a knight in golden armour and mounted on a spirited steed was seen making his way towards the fatal hill. |
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But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed. |
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The Jester instantly made up to the leader of the assassins, who, bruised by his fall, and entangled under the wounded steed, lay incapable either of flight or resistance. |
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The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him. |
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He had not proceeded far when his steed came to a full stop. |
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Enthroned upon his monstrous steed, and solemnly proceeding up and down the wide, steep field, he looked the very incarnation of quiet, gleeful satisfaction and delight. |
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A silence reigned during which the flanks of the old horse, the steed of apocalyptic misery, smoked upwards in the light of the charitable gas-lamp. |
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He instantly put spurs to his steed, and scoured off followed by the panic-stricken herd, their fright being increased by the yells of the savages in their rear. |
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Then when Sir Ghelent saw that of going back there was none, he prayed to good Saint Cuthbert, and setting spurs into his steed rode forward bravely and most joyously. |
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A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high. |
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As he spoke the attendant cantered up the grassy enclosure, and pulling up his steed in front of the royal stand, blew a second fanfare upon his bugle. |
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