Perched behind him on the crupper was a cheetah, a gilded collar around its neck, a chain of silver links running between it and the groom's hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
My horse fell, flinging me clean over his crupper. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
They mounted her on crupper and the camel went his way. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"Whose, then?" says I, genially, and laid a hand on his crupper. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
Slowly three times, one after another, from a full crupper he mired. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He alighted as the woman's head rolled from the crupper of her horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
English the girths and the shoes; all English from snaffle to crupper. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
His horse's armor matched Jermayan's exactly, from shanfron to crupper. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
His saddle was red velvet, the bridle and crupper studded — with gilded knobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
I should hoist it to the crupper with the lighter weight as rider, but as you think fit. '. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
He nimbly mounts the crupper of his now unladen dromedary, and at a trot moves down the bazar. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
I was on her back in a moment, and, stooping, lifted mademoiselle swiftly to the crupper in front of me. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
It was the rancid stench of saddle and crupper sores that came on the chill west wind from the dead ground. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Peredur unhorsed his opponent, bearing him over the crupper with such force that he lay stunned, as one dead. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference
Then, suddenly, he seemed to be sliding back down on to the horse's crupper -- apparently he had lost the reins. From Wordnik.com. [Death Stalks The Ruins]
I bounded in the saddle at each leap, sometimes upon the mare's neck, sometimes upon the crupper; it was terrible!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was going at a good pace when the crupper broke, and he was thrown over the donkey's head on to the stony track. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
He appeared mounted upon a white horse, caparisoned with a scarlet and blue cloth; gold tassels hung round the crupper. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Beside him rode an hussar, with a boy in a tattered French uniform and blue cap behind him on the crupper of his horse. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
I yelled out; and, as I said the word, he sprang out of the saddle, and fell back over his horse's crupper to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Out of the bushes came the huntsman who had been fighting and rode toward his young master, with the fox tied to his crupper. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Leaning down, Sabin swept Guillaume onto his crupper and gave the delighted, squealing child a swift ride around the courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He followed right on Gwena's crupper; the Companions 'hooves rang on the stone in perfect rhythm, sounding like one single horse. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
Fancy a brass-bound peaked pack-saddle rising a foot above the animal's back, with a crupper-strap slanting down to clasp the tail. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
The French, always careless of their cavalry horses, drove them until their saddle and crupper sores could be smelt half a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
The whole is girthed with a long rope passed twice around the body, round the neck as a breast-strap, and under the tail as a crupper. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference
One of the House Barons, seeing from afar the duel begin, rode down to the olive slopes for a nearer sight, and took me on his crupper. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The loose reins hanging over his crupper were wet with foam, and the box fastened on behind the chaise gave great regular bumps against it. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
I put my lance in rest and spurred towards him, and we came together with so great an onset that I was carried far beyond the crupper of my horse. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Godesberg were rather surprised to see the noble Lord Louis trot into the court-yard of the castle, with a companion on the crupper of his saddle. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
The donkey being brought, he shuffles on to its crupper and makes a joyous and triumphant passage down through the streets of the city to his home. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Gilbert feeding by him altogether unconcerned, the helmet and the lance suspended at the saddle-bow, and the portmanteau safely fixed upon the crupper. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
He went to Havre accompanied by Dumay, whose life he had saved at Waterloo by taking him on the crupper of his saddle in the hurly-burly of the retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Each had a slave crouched behind him on the crupper to help him with rifle and dagger in the fight, and to watch his camel and cook for him on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
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