Saddles

Examples

• The others all got down to fix their saddles, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Got your saddles covered up good? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• All drooped low in the saddles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We killed a pair of _guardia civil_, he said, explaining the military saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The saddles are so made that the load will go on any saddle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They had the same conversation; the same silver dishes; the same saddles of mutton, boiled turkeys, and entrees. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He pulled back the tarpaulin and showed the saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The little donkeys had saddles upon them which were made very high in order that the rider's feet might not drag the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then came the riderless horses with their burdens tied across the saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The saddles were the high, stuffy, frog-shaped things we had known in Ephesus and Smyrna. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It powdered the dead who were tied face down across the saddles and the wounded, and those who walked beside them, were in thick dust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They were lashed face down over the saddles, their arms hanging. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The cables are then passed over towers, on which they are supported in movable saddles, so that the towers are not overthrown by the strain on the cables. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The horses had loads too, packed over the saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At length the new postilions are in their saddles, and the old are left behind. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Two carried them across the pommels of their saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then he told the number of the wounded he had seen and the number of the dead across the saddles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The donkeys all stood still after the catastrophe and waited for their dismembered saddles to be patched up and put on by the noisy muleteers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The saddles were peculiar, to say the least. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never saw such a time with saddles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Nita