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Updated: June 8, 2025
The use of the bearing-rein, which prevailed in Egypt, was unknown to the Assyrians, or disapproved by them. The driving-reins were separate, not stitched or buckled together, and were held in the two hands separately. The right hand grasped the reins, whatever their number, which were attached at the horses' right cheeks, while the left hand performed the same office with the remaining reins.
All the arguments which I have heard adduced against the doctrine here laid down would also go to prove that a horse cannot fall which has a bearing-rein and a crupper, that is, whose head is tied to his tail. Sir Francis Head’s observations on bearing-reins, in the “Bubbles of the Brunnen,” are quite philosophical.
Men who wear a mustache are permitted to "saw" the mouth with the napkin, as if it were a bearing-rein, but for ladies this would look too masculine.
Constitutional usage, determined for him by others, was the bearing-rein that had bowed his neck to that decorative arch of mingled condescension and pride with which he received deputations, addresses, ambassadors.
The horse in the shafts is compelled by the bearing-rein to keep his head high and straight before him though the movement of his ears shows plainly that he would very much like to put it somewhere farther away from the tongue of the bell but the side horses gallop freely, turning their heads outwards in classical fashion.
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