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He eagerly took every chance to visit likely stock; he was never so happy as when he was astride of some mettlesome animal, interpreting its moods as only the born horseman can do, and drawing on the reserves of strength which are closed to all but the expert rider.
My first thought was that the hyaenodon had at last attacked me, but as my eyes opened and I struggled to rise, I saw that a man was astride me and three others bending close above him. I am no weakling and never have been. My experience in the hard life of the inner world has turned my thews to steel.
Hooke, and others, to Colonell Blunts, to consider again of the business of charriots, and to try their new invention. Which I saw here my Lord Bruncker ride in; where the coachman sits astride upon a pole over the horse, but do not touch the horse, which is a pretty odde thing; but it seems it is most easy for the horse, and, as they say, for the man also.
Then, my blood boiling at this treatment, I got astride of him, and roasted his ribs royally, and with more force than ever I had conceived myself to be possessed of.
A girl astride a buckskin pony rode down to the river to water her mount. She carried across the pommel of her saddle a small rifle. Hanging from the cantle strings was a wild turkey she had shot. It was getting along toward evening and she was on her way back to Los Portales. The girl was a lover of the outdoors and she had been hunting alone.
I hope not," said I to Smellie. "Lend me your glass a moment, will you? Mine is down below. I think I'll take a trip aloft and see what I can make out about him." I accordingly went aloft to the fore-yard, and sitting astride it, close to the parrals, took as good a look at the fast-approaching craft as the swaying of the yard and the lively motion of the little "Vigilant" would permit.
Bassin and Lagoutte, taught us to vault on horseback, astride and sitting, and standing upright after every fashion, in fact.
He adjusted the spectacles a little more firmly astride of his nose as he took the paper in his hand and began conning it. "What's all this?" he said; "a whole lot of figures and nothing else." And then he read aloud, "'Mark S. S. W. S. by S. What d'ye suppose that means, Tom?" "I don't know, sir," said Tom. "But maybe we can understand it better if you read on."
Before Jimmy was fully aware of his intention, Billy had thrown him to the floor and was giving him a good pommeling. "Say you got 'nough?" he growled from ibis position astride of the other boy. "I got 'nough, Billy," repeated Jimmy. "Say you sorry you done it." "I say I sorry I done it," abjectly repeated the younger child. "Get up, Billy, 'fore you bust my stommick open."
It was ridiculous to sit astride a bough and say Paternosters and Aves. He could not sit there much longer.
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