saddle-bow

This was due mainly to her efforts, while Daylight, who rode with a short-handled ax on his saddle-bow, cleared the little manzanita wood on the rocky hill of all its dead and dying and overcrowded weaklings.

Chapter XXV 2010

Then, to my horror, the speaker drew his nagaika from his saddle-bow, doubled it back, and leaned down over me.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

There was Hugh, on his favourite self-willed grey, with his son on his saddle-bow, Aline, unruffled by the haste of her preparations for leaving town, on her white jennet, her maid and friend Constance pillion behind a groom, a second groom following with the pack-pony on a leading rein, and the two pilgrims to Saint Asaph merrily escorted by this family party.

His Disposition 2010

There were mounted guardsmen with her, and a couple of her ladies, also mounted, and heavily veiled; one of the mounted men had a child perched on his saddle-bow: Damodar, her stepson.

Fiancée 2010

By the law of battle, the female should be snatched to the conqueror's saddle-bow, and ridden away with into the night, not subjected to the jokes and the good advice and the impertinent congratulations of the clan.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Then there was a steel axe, or hammer, called a mace-of-arms, and which hung to the saddle-bow.

The Talisman 2008

Now and then a mounted cavalier might pass them, the harp at whose saddle-bow, or carried by one of his attendants, attested the character of a

Anne of Geierstein 2008

A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this illusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of his foeman, suddenly seized the mace which hung at his saddle-bow, and, with a strong hand and unerring aim, hurled it against the head of the Emir, for such and not less his enemy appeared.

The Talisman 2008

In an instant Philipson was again mounted, when, seizing a battle-axe which hung at the saddle-bow of his new steed, he struck down the staggering sentinel, who was endeavoring again to seize upon him.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Western warrior, “to which that which hangs at my saddle-bow weighs but as a feather.”

The Talisman 2008