 | 1872 - 900 páginas
...speed ! " cried the \vateh as the gate-bolts undrew, "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through. can, 1 tnrned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right,... | |
 | 1872 - 514 páginas
...speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; " Speed ! " echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 páginas
...speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; ' Speed !' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 páginas
...speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, " Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest And into the midnight we galloped abreast. 'Twas moonset at starting, but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear;... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 páginas
...!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolta undrew; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through : Behind shut the 'postern, the lights sank to rest,...each stirrup and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less • steadily Roland a whit. It was moonset... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 páginas
...SPEED !" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " SPEED!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...each stirrup and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting;... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 páginas
...!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right,... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 588 páginas
...! " cried the watch, as the gate bolts undrew ; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. u. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing... | |
 | Hamilton Aïdé - 1873 - 204 páginas
...gate-bolts pleases him to call them away. _ undrew; " Speed I " echoed the walls to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.' " " I like that," said Elizabeth, looking The defence of monastic institutions from a man whose character... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 páginas
...! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed," echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moon-set at starting;... | |
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I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; 
