 Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker...  Annual Register - Page 465edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...Ballad. 369 Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. II. " Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 600 pages
...through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. n. Not a word to each other, we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the light sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ' Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, nerer changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...three horsemen are depicted as setting off from the former place at full gallop for the latter. '- Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other : we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride never changing our place, I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...neck, stride for stride, never changing our place j I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast Not a word to each other ! we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. n. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle, and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we gallop'd abreast. Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by ueck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; £ turn'il in my saddle and made its girths tight,... | |
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