belly-to-the-earth

Updated: May 2, 2025

So, within another certain number of split seconds, Captain Charlie Warrington rode, as the French say, belly-to-the-earth, and the fact that the monsoon chose that instant to let pour another Noah's deluge seemed to make no difference at all to his ardor or the pace to which he spurred his horse.

Talbot Mundy - The Winds of the World

That incident, and her intimation that the missionaries were in Howrah's palace, took Alwa back up the black, blind side street; and before he emerged from it he saw Jaimihr and his ten go thundering past, their eyes on the sky-line for a hint of conflagration, and their horses belly-to-the-earth racing as only fear, or enthusiasm, or grim desperation in their riders' minds can make them race.

Talbot Mundy - Rung Ho!