on horseback

• “Crassus probably sat on horseback close to his armys front line, the usual position of a Roman general in battle.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

• “Came on horseback with a man in his forties—good-looking fellow, according to Mrs. Harris—an old lady who was here at the time.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “Instead of Cracker Jacks there would be bottomless Veuve Clicquot champagne, and instead of baseball it would be a very different game: polo, where two teams of four men on horseback face off in a match that is like a cross between soccer and croquet.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Horseplay for Haiti

• “When I came back up the mountain, it had been on horseback or in a mechanized dygo.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raven Rise

• “Kuralay sets off into the woods on horseback and returns like a bee to the hive with saddlebags full of wild apples.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Her mother was widely respected and sought after as both a cook and a cowhand, although the approval of her skill on horseback was usually grudgingly given.”

  Simon & Schuster: Western Man

• “Episcoporum (I, ii, 4) directs that in these receptions the bishop is to ride on horseback wearing his mitre, and under a canopy which is in the first instance to be carried by some of the principal magistrates of the town.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The men arrived a couple of hours later on horseback and scattered over the ranch, rounding up the cow-calf pairs and herding them back to the corrals near the house.”

  Simon & Schuster: Plain Language

• “Trusty guards, mounted on horseback and armed with chopped-down double-barreled shotguns, had to serve the time of any inmate they let escape.”

  Simon & Schuster: Jolie Blon’s Bounce

• “Finding the sirdar on horseback with his staff, Churchill estimated that the khalifa could be little more than an hour away.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

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