What is "horseback"

Usage examples of "horseback".

The ka-tet ambled back toward the rectory, riding four abreast, feeling every town eye that watched them go: death on horseback.

Beside him, another Indian, also on horseback, drifted into view, his dark eyes assessing her silently.

I, who, with your own weapons, will best you on the morrow when, in the north ballium, I meet you on horseback with sword and buckler!

Although you escaped on horseback I think you should have brought a cloak and a carpet bag with some linen.

The homesteader was sending anxious glances at the men on horseback, but he kept the team of horses moving.

Madame Morin and her daughter arrived, preceded by Le Duc on horseback, who announced their approach by numerous smacks of his whip.

The good King was seated on horseback about half way up the mount, a morion on his head, surmounted by a crown, which left his manly features exposed to public view, as, with cool and considerate eye, he perused each rank as it passed him, and returned the salutation of the leaders.

On the third day of September, the king, according to custom, going out in a carriage to take the air, accompanied by one domestic, was, in the night, at a solitary place near Belem, attacked by three men on horseback, armed with musquetoons, one of whom fired his piece at the coachman without effect.

Louis on horseback in the center of the room, and studied the gigantic Passement clock along one wall.

Within minutes he was on horseback, trotting through the sunlit streets as quickly as the busy citizens would allow, his control still icy and pervading both his horse and Kerna, riding behind him.

The college of princes and prelates purged themselves of a promiscuous multitude: they reduced to four representative votes the long series of independent counts, and excluded the nobles or equestrian order, sixty thousand of whom, as in the Polish diets, had appeared on horseback in the field of election.

I faced prosaically the fact that from now on I would need to work to eat, totted up my assets, which proved to be a thin body, good health, and a certain facility on horseback, and got myself a job as a stable lad.

Sane or insane, she was in danger if Senator Warfield considered her of sufficient importance to bring him out on horseback to the Quirt ranch.

Mai Naysayer put a foot to the stirrup and mounted the blue, and after trotting the stallion back a few paces, he jumped the creek on horseback.

Sometimes other folk passed us, messengers and folk traveling on horseback, unslowed by sheep and wagons.