 | Walter Scott - Crusades - 1825 - 310 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...contests. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Ai-ab horseman managing his steed more by his limbs, and the inflection oi his body, than by any use... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 292 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger with the calm self-confidence, belonging to the vie.or in many contests. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1846 - 770 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...his steed more by his limbs, and the inflection of hia body, than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand ; so that he was enabled... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 772 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...calm self-confidence, belonging to the victor in many contesta. The Saracen came on at the epeedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...in rest, with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's + mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...selfconfidence belonging to the victor in many contests. 2. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limbs... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...in rest, with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's ^mettle with the spur, and prepared to + encounter the stranger...self-confidence belonging to the victor in many contests. 2. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limbs... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 310 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limb?, and the inflection of his body, than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 312 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limb?, and the inflection of his body, than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter the stranger...self-confidence belonging to the victor in many contests. 11. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limbs,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1869 - 634 pages
...gathered up the reins in the left, waked his horse's mettle with the spur, and prepared to encounter1 the stranger with the calm self-confidence, belonging...of an Arab horseman, managing his steed more by his limb?, and the inflection of his body, than by any use of the reins, which hung loose in his left hand... | |
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... friend or foe — perhaps, as a vowed champion of the Cross, he might rather have preferred the latter. He disengaged his lance from his saddle, seized it with the right hand, placed it in rest with its point half elevated, gathered up the reins in... 
