fast-trotting

Intrepid journalism is hard or impossible if you have to ask a fast-trotting subject at a political rally to please slow down so that you can keep up with them.

Does Art as Social Justice Lead to the Artist as Unpaid Social Worker? 2009

When the pictures came back from the lab, I was in for a surprise historical footnote: in ancient times, photographs were “developed” at remote mountaintop “laboratories” and returned to you on the backs of fast-trotting donkeys.

Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Galaxy on the rise 2009

“Young Americans” driving fast-trotting horses, edging in and out among the crowd — wheels are locked, horses tumble down, and persons pressed for time are distracted.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The air was pure, still, and perfectly elastic; a fitful aurora lighted our way, and the iron hoofs of the fast-trotting ponies rattled cheerily along the frozen ground.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

After living in Los Angeles for almost 14 years -- most of them spent just steps from the surf -- I've always wanted to be one of those wet-suited guys fast-trotting along the beach, long boards under their arms, heading out to catch the "killer waves" or "awesome breaks" or "unreal curls" or whatever it is those guys are talking about.

Surf's Up! 2007

He was riding a large-boned, fast-trotting bay horse, that pressed on as eagerly as his rider.

Castle Richmond 2004

But even then, high as he was mounted on his fast-trotting horse, black

The Three Clerks 2004

Pedgift Senior, patting the fast-trotting mare with the end of his whip.

Armadale 2003

Pedgift Senior slackened the pace of his fast-trotting mare, without pulling up.

Armadale 2003

She liked being driven with fast-trotting horses, and was ready to play cards from morning till evening, and would always keep the score of the pennies she had lost or won hidden under her hand when her husband came near the card-table; but all her dowry, her whole fortune, she had put absolutely at his disposal.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003