Docile riding horse of old

Usage examples of palfrey.

And I was there, you know, when Palfrey thought you had plunged to your death.

I had better go there directly or Palfrey will flee the country with all the Channing money.

Clare felt the chill through her wool cloak as she rode her palfrey slowly through the crowded street.

Angie looked and saw Brian, still in his armor, but riding a palfrey rather than his war horse, taking a circuit away from the lists, by the woods and down to the other large tent, where he dismounted and went inside.

Angie, as he was leading the palfrey by its reins, Angie on it, out of the woods behind the tents that concealed their approach from the crowd in the stands.

Leisurely, she reined the palfrey around so that she faced the distant stands, although Mnrogar still sat facing down the lists.

Ned Dunster, tabard and all and walking behind Angie riding the palfrey, led out the huge black animal with its rider, and positioned him properly at the near end of the list.

They made swift progress, accordingly, but still Jim found himself counting the seconds until they were beyond the stands, and had brought the palfrey up behind them, tethered him there, and walked normally out to join the rest of the crowd.

And all the time, though it was not tied and was by no means a cold-blooded beast, the palfrey had not moved, standing still as a stone.

Lords and ladies looked again and again at his young wife on her white palfrey, its tail trailing and shimmering like her blue silk gown, the delicate openwork of its mane as dainty as the lace kerchief tucked between her breasts or her slender gloved hand which held the caparisoned reins.

Peter Palfrey likewise has built himself a house, and so has Balch, and Norman, and Woodbury.

They choked my cries with wicked might, And bound me on a palfrey white: As sure as Heaven shall pity me, I cannot tell what men they be.

Jadrek had his own horse now, a gentle palfrey that had belonged to Mertis, a sweet-tempered bay gelding with a gait as comfortable as any beast Tarma had ever encountered.

Jadrek mounted his own palfrey with a grunt of effort, and rode it in close beside Kethry, so that he could steady her from the side.

Kethry kept drifting in and out of awareness, and sliding out of her saddle as she lost her hold on the world, livery time she started to fall, Jadrek had to rein in both Hellsbane and his palfrey to keep her from falling over.