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  • Instead, bare-back, he received the negro on his back, and was spiked and set bucking just the same; for the spike was now attached to Sam's palm by means of leather straps.

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • At home on the ranch, the first thing I did was jump on a horse bare-back and go riding down to the beach.

    Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

  • At home on the ranch, the first thing I did was jump on a horse bare-back and go riding down to the beach.

    Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

  • At home on the ranch, the first thing I did was jump on a horse bare-back and go riding down to the beach.

    Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

  • Due to my great fear of the dreaded TSA making my laptop the millionth seized (no matter how temporarily), I chose to go bare-back: writing in longhand and working off of any computer I could cage for a moment ... or resorting to cyber-cafés, if necessary.

    Yanqui Mike Skowronek: Blogging The DNC For Buenos Aires Expats 2008

  • I'm the mother of a teenager and I see nothing wrong with the bare-back picture.

    Tween Angel: Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Miley Cyrus: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • We rode bare-back, jumped huge fences we shouldn't have and in a bust of inspiration jousted each other off our ponies with sticks.

    i'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in 2006

  • His maternal ancestors crowded into his face when he was spurning at Arthur--ancestors whose civilization, like Mordred's, had been matriarchal: who had ridden bare-back, charged in chariots, fought by stratagem, and ornamented their grisly strongholds with the heads of enemies.

    And People Complain About Political Undertones in Tolkien and Lewis Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • His maternal ancestors crowded into his face when he was spurning at Arthur--ancestors whose civilization, like Mordred's, had been matriarchal: who had ridden bare-back, charged in chariots, fought by stratagem, and ornamented their grisly strongholds with the heads of enemies.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • The teenage boys whistled catcalls and skimmed their cowboy hats at her feet, then jumped bare-back on skinny horses and trotted off sucking liter bottles of beer.

    The Making of Toro Mark Sundeen 2003

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