Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A teacher of the art of riding; specifically (military), one who instructs soldiers and officers in the management of horses.
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Examples
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They were coming at the gallop now, perhaps three hundred yards off, and the sabres steady against the shoulders; they were keeping line damned well, and I heard my riding-master muttering:
Fiancée 2010
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The man beyond him said something, and the riding-master laughed.
Fiancée 2010
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We waited and watched as the squadrons formed, and the riding-master cursed under his breath.
Fiancée 2010
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I heard a moan behind me, and there was the riding-master, flopped against the parapet, his shirt soaked in blood, trying to reach for the fallen water-chaggle.
Fiancée 2010
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Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.
Fiancée 2010
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Amazonian squadron, led by Mr. Whiskin, the riding-master, when the
The Newcomes 2006
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As for riding, though Mr. Warrington took a few lessons on the great horse from a riding-master who came to Tunbridge, he declared that their own Virginian manner was well enough for him, and that he saw no one amongst the fine folks and the jockeys who could ride better than his friend Colonel George Washington of
The Virginians 2006
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But when you are once a riding-master all will be over.
Bel Ami 2003
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I was only tenth-caste foreign rubbish, a mere slave, he was thinking; on the other hand, I was sergeant-general, with impressive if undefined power, and much more to the point, I was the Queen's current favourite and riding-master, as all the world knew.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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