equestrian

• It was entirely equestrian, and came over London Bridge, from Suffolk Place, where the King and Queen had passed the night. —  For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary
• Melville, who claimed the steed as his own special property, had given him his Arabian name because he fancied there were many points of resemblance between him and the winged coursers of the East, made famous as long ago as the time of the Crusades The lad sat his horse like a skilled equestrian, and indeed it would be hard to find his superior in that respect throughout that broad stretch of sparsely settled country. —  The Story of Red Feather A Tale of the American Frontier
• I was greatly flattered at being regarded sufficiently of the equestrian order to hear all that.--And he told me stories about Richard, when he was quite a little boy--and about his father also Honoria had a conviction the tears were running down Lady Calmady's cheeks, but she would not look round. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• Many epitaphs give an account of the life of the deceased; of his rank in the army, and the campaigns in which he fought; of the name of the man-of-war to which he belonged, if he had served in the navy; of the branch of trade he was engaged in; the address of his place of business; his success in the equestrian or senatorial career, or in the circus or the theatre; his "état civil," his age, place of birth, and so on. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• She is an accomplished equestrian, and dresses as a native princess, with a huge ornament in her nose, but does not disdain to mingle with English ladies in the Bombay Rotten Row, and uses a European saddle The account which Sam had thus slightly sketched was more than borne out by the facts that evening. —  The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables

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