 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 592 pages
...burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled on the 25 ground under a cloud of dust. To extricate himself...with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew 30 his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror. The Disinherited Knight sprung from his steed,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 516 pages
...his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled...the stirrups and fallen steed, was to the Templar scai'ce the work of a moment ; and, stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1908 - 346 pages
...his high reputation; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled...To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallen 30 steed, was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment ; and, stung with madness, he drew his sword... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1908 - 632 pages
...not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, sauulc. horse, and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust. 414 CLASSIFICATION OF NAMES CHAPTER IX. OTHER WRITERS OF THE EIGHTH ERA, OWING to the multitude of... | |
 | Harriette Taylor Treadwell - 1915 - 426 pages
...helmet. Fair and true he hit the Norman's visor, the shock bursting the girths of his saddle, so that saddle, horse and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust. In a moment Sir Brian loosed himself from his fallen steed, drew his sword and waved it in defiance... | |
 | 1918 - 424 pages
...helmet. Fair and true he hit the Norman's visor, the shock bursting the girths of his saddle, so that saddle, horse and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust. In a moment Sir Brian loosed himself from his fallen steed, drew his sword and waved it in defiance... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 pages
...his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man, rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust. Ralph de Vipont summed up the list of the stranger's triumphs, being hurled to the ground with such... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 pages
...vindicated their opinion of his skill : his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.' ' As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust.' ' A band of yeomen soon disposed of the ruffians, all of whom lay on the spot dead or mortally wounded.'... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 pages
...his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced; however, saddle, horse, and man rolled on the ground under 1o a cloud of dust. To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallen steed was to the Templar scarce... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pages
...vindicated their opinion of his skill : his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.' ' As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust.' ' A band of yeomen soon disposed of the ruffians, all of whom lay on the spot dead or mortally wounded.'... | |
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Norman on the visor, where his lance's point kept hold of the bars. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle,... 
