rowelled

His mount shied in the presence of so much iron, and he rowelled its sides ruthlessly.

Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

His mount shied in the presence of so much iron, and he rowelled its sides ruthlessly.

Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

He rowelled the destrier side-on into another Saracen mount and clashed blades.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

There were hundreds of native horsemen and horsewomen, many of them doubtless on the dejected quadrupeds I saw at the wharf, but a judicious application of long rowelled Mexican spurs, and a degree of emulation, caused these animals to tear along at full gallop.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The unnerved brain edged away from all the outside, as a raw horse, once rowelled, sidles from the spur.

Kim 2003

Pailleterie shouted, and rowelled back his spurs to drive his big black horse straight for the bridge that was now less than a quarter mile away.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

We rowelled her and we crowded sail upon her, and we coaxed and bullied and humored her, till the Three Crows, their fortune only a plain sail two days ahead, raved and swore like insensate brutes, or shall we say like mahouts, trying to drive their stricken elephant upon the tiger -- and all to no purpose.

The Ship That Saw a Ghost 1996

Lord John savagely rowelled the beast, and somehow it lumbered and scraped its way over the thorns.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

His horse, like Sharpe's, had been slowed by the plough furrows in the rye field, but the Frenchman rowelled it on as he got close to Sharpe.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

He rowelled his spurs back and Sharpe was forgotten in the sudden panic.

Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985