 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 350 páginas
...through ; Behind shut the postern,1 the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. & Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique 2 right, Rebnckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1877 - 190 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 páginas
...trisyllabic metre, which is chiefly dactylic, steadied every now and then by a monosyllabic foot. " Not' a word' to each o'ther ; we kept' the great pace',...neck', stride by stride', never changing our place'; I' turn'd' in my sad'dle, and made' its girths tight', Then' short'ened each stirrup, and set' the pique... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 páginas
...; Behind shut the postern, 1 the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. fl Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace—...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; . I tfcrned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique 2 right,... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 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 moonset at starting... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 páginas
...gate-bolts undrew ; " Speed !" echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind, shut the postern,3 the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we...girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique4 right, Ee-buckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 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. (1. 1—6) 36 I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 páginas
...Speed!' cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew; 'Speed!' echoed the wall to us galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,...Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our pace; I turned in my saddle, and . . . and . . .' After a few lines he faltered, and confessed that... | |
 | Raymond Monelle - 2010 - 265 páginas
...speed!" cried the watch, as the gatebolts 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. ("How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" [16 — ./; In music, too, there was often a reference... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 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;... | |
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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 ; 
