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"No doubt," said John, gently. Then she allowed him to examine the rest of the cabinet, whilst she talked on, always of Peter his horsemanship and his shooting and his prowess in every kind of sport and game. Meanwhile, Lady Belstone was holding a hurried consultation with her sister.
His harshness repels regard, his coldness blights confidence, and so, though he is admired for his dazzling skill in surgery, for his dogged perseverance and unremitting power of application, for his fine horsemanship and iron nerve; he is not regarded with affection. He is not in the least aware of it, to do him justice, when his rough ironies and his brusque repartees give offence.
His horsemanship, his daring, the stone walls he leaped and the floods through which he dashed, furnished his companions with wondering tale and comment on their return home. Mr.
Without touching the stirrup, both sprung at the same instant in their saddles; the helmet, with its long graceful plume, was quickly donned; the lance and shield received; the pennon adorning the iron head of each lowered a moment in honor to their sovereign, then waved gayly in air, and then each lance was laid in rest; a trumpet sounded, and onward darted the fiery youths thrice round the lists, displaying a skill and courage in horsemanship which was hailed with repeated shouts of applause.
It is the horsemanship, the galloping and jumping, and the being out in the open air. Very naturally, however, men who have passed their lives as fox-hunters grow to regard the chase and the object of it alike with superstitious veneration. They attribute almost mythical characters to the animal.
But Big Medicine was very nearly all that he claimed to be; and one of his pet vanities was his horsemanship; he managed to keep within a fine slapping distance of Dunk. He stopped when his hand began to sting through his glove. "Now you keep your hand away from that gun that you ain't honest enough to carry where folks can see it, but 'ye got it cached in your pocket!" he thundered.
Sampson and his young German will display alternately on one, two, and three horses, various surprising and curious feats of famous horsemanship in like manner as at the Grand Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. Admittance one shilling each person. Before you leave, Mr. Richard," she continued, with her eyes still on the sheet, "I should like to talk over one or two little matters." "Dolly !"
He hoped devoutly it might not come to that; but at the core of hope lurked a flicker of fear.... "Her best is bettered with a more delight." The great Gymkhana was almost over. The last event bare-back feats of horsemanship had been an exciting affair; a close contest between Lance and Roy and an Indian Cavalry officer.
He was skilled in horsemanship, and his control over the fiery Bucephalus, untamable by others, has become a household tale in all lands. There never was a more kingly prince. A king at twenty, his career has been an object of wonder to succeeding generations. He shot like a meteor across the sky of ancient civilization.
From my comfortable seat I watched one of those exhibitions of miraculous horsemanship of which only Commodus was capable. The Palace Stadium, of course, is a very large and impressive structure and its arena of no mean extent. But compared, not merely with the Circus Maximus, but with the Flaminian Circus or Domitian's Stadium it seemed small and contracted.
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