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Her own riding-horse; her own pony-carriage; her own beautiful little sitting-room upstairs at the great house, and so on. All that I might have had once Miss Milroy is to have now if I let her." "Six o'clock. More of the everlasting Armadale! Half an hour since, Midwinter came in from his writing, giddy and exhausted.
It is not an uncommon thing in the Argentino pampas I have on two occasions witnessed it myself for a riding-horse to come home, or to the gate of his owner's house, to die.
As he proposed to take his family and party by the stage, Hammond lent me his riding-horse, which I rode to Allatoona and the Etowah River. Hearing of certain large Indian mounds near the way, I turned to one side to visit them, stopping a couple of days with Colonel Lewis Tumlin, on whose plantation these mounds were.
And when Jurgen raised his eyes he saw that his companion was not a centaur, but only a strayed riding-horse. "Were you the animal, then," says Jurgen, "and was it a quite ordinary animal, that conveyed me to the garden between dawn and sunrise?" And Jurgen laughed disconsolately. "At all events, you have clothed me in a curious fine shirt. And, now I look, your bridle is marked with a coronet.
In many communities the appearance of men in any of these enterprises would create suspicion or even raise a mob. But the women worked on quietly, effectively, and unnoticed. The matron of a family would be provided with the best riding-horse which the neighborhood could furnish.
They were very sleepy the next morning; indeed, they seemed scarcely to have fallen asleep when Lucy Ann shook them; but they jumped up without the usual application of cold water in their faces, which Lucy Ann so delighted to make; and in a little while they were out in the yard, where Balla was standing holding three horses, their mother's riding-horse; another with a side-saddle for their Cousin Belle, whose brother was in the regiment; and one for himself, and Peter and Cole were holding the carriage-horses for the boys, and several other men were holding mules.
Just at a time when to proceed further seemed impossible, and when he had been absent two days from the mine, he fell in with a riding-horse, quietly grazing, at the foot of the mountain.
Three of our heifers were dead, and one horse an old loved riding-horse with a history, old Zango the whole house was in grief at his death! He belonged originally to a cavalry officer who had an extraordinary affection for him a rare thing in a land where horseflesh was too cheap, and men as a rule careless of their animals and even cruel.
The Queen presented her guest with a handsome riding-horse, and when he thanked her in warm and feeling terms, she spoke the memorable words, the effect of which spoken at that date by the Queen of England can hardly be imagined: 'I hope you will ride this horse when the battles are fought for the liberation of Italy.
Each ward is expected to turn out its contingent ready and equipped for war, and this can only be done by seizing goods right and left. One unfortunate will have to find a waggon, another to deliver his favourite span of trek oxen, another his riding-horse, or some slaughter cattle, and so on.
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