He smiled as he reined the horse around a deep puddle in the road, leading mine by the checkrein after him. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
It would disperse when Delp brought in reinforcements, but it had accomplished its purpose-to break up the formation and checkrein the seaward movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Nature drives by two reins, and one is a checkrein. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
"She needs a checkrein," he declared, "an 'she needs it bad," a remark which so incensed Patrolman McDonogh that Sedyard decided to explain. From Wordnik.com. [New Faces] Reference
The system of checks and balances which it sets up has enabled the growing nation to adapt itself to every need and at the same time to checkrein every bid for arbitrary power. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
Her small library skimmed the cream of the insurgents and revolutionaries of genius; and here the shy and reticent schoolgirl with the mark of the churchly checkrein fresh upon her, was free to browse, for her cousin had no slightest notion of playing censor. From Wordnik.com. [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference
If I call to ye, drop the checkrein and run for it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Maybe I've got the checkrein too tight. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
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