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leading reins

n. (leading rein English)

Usage examples of "leading reins".

It had cost precious time to secure the casualties, and the going was slow with three horses on leading reins.

The horses, white-eyed, swam desperately behind the reed boats that Sharpe noted had no caulking of any kind, but depended on skilful close weaving to keep the water out, and the tug of the horses' leading reins strained the light wooden frames and stretched the weave so that the boats let in water alarmingly.

Simmons's cousin Jake drove in a tethering stake and tied the pack-mule's leading reins to it before he unlimbered the net and hurried up to join his relative at the front of the party.

His two spent mounts jagged at his side on leading reins, their chests lathered, and their ~ distended nostrils showing scarlet linings.

His two spent mounts jagged athis side on leading reins, their chests lathered, and their ~distended nostrils showing scarlet linings.

His two spent mounts jogged at his side on leading reins, their chests lathered, and their distended nostrils showing scarlet linings.

Then she took the leading reins of her two spare horses and cut the trooper's beast loose, half-grinning down at the sleeping form.

He felt like a man holding two maddened stallions on leading reins, who, at a false step or a break in attention, would rend him to pieces.

But suddenly the great double doors below were hurled open, their solid weight crashing back to the wall, and the hoof-beats, by the sound of them of horses being walked on leading reins, clashed inward from the cobbles of the apron and thudded dully on the beaten earth floor within.