Jockey's control

Usage examples of rein.

Reining in, Seregil studied the wall of branches for a moment, then dismounted and motioned for Alec to follow.

Wrapping the reins more securely around his fist, Alec coaxed the nervous mare along with soothing words as her hooves struck loose stones.

Unable to free his hand from the reins, Alec was jerked off balance and swung out over the cliff edge.

Nysander asked, reining in while Seregil and Alec pulled up their hoods.

Then I knew them for the foemen and their deeds to be I knew, And I gathered the reins together to ride down the hill amain, To die with a good stroke stricken and slay ere I was slain.

The Badgeless Maces hauled back on their reins, barely managing to bring their mounts to a stop before the dragoneers.

The soldiers, riding up with shouts and derision, had to gather in reins to hold other bawling beasts.

Then my lord turned to me while the king took no heed, and no man in the ring of knights moved from his place, and he set me in the saddle, and turned about to mount, and there came a lord from the ring of men gloriously bedight, and he bowed lowly before my lord, and held his stirrup for him: but lightly he leapt up into the saddle, and took my reins and led me along with him, so that he and the king and I went on together, and all the baronage and their folk shouted and tossed sword and spear aloft and followed after us.

The General reined in, doffed his bicorne hat, then cast a cold glance at Spears and Sharpe.

The Corporal had managed to pull up Billy, but the two ponies had shot past him, both the children crying out with delight, and while galloping on to catch them Billy had come down in a boggy place, and the corporal supposed that he himself must have been a bit stunned, for when he got up he found that he had let go of his rein and that Billy and everybody else had disappeared.

I could see better then, and if I did by mischance step into a boggy patch I could hold the reins and let Sultana pull me out.

Shanna would have reined the animal away to give the man wide berth, but as she passed by the bondsman, a tan arm shot out and firmly grasped the bridle of her steed.

I crawled under the seat with the blanket wrapped around me, Mary clucked her tongue and gave the reins a shake, and the buckboard was on the move again.

Only if he could arrange for Bute to serve under him, could he put his reins on that ambitious man.

Cugel tried to rein the beast up and around in a caracole, but it merely squatted low to the ground, then padded out upon the road.