saddle-tree

What he did at the time was to give Moggie Reilly precious seconds in which to grasp the saddle-tree, throw his legs astride Storm Cone and lurch into some sort of equilibrium before his mount bunched his quarters and shot over the hazardous hurdles as if powered by rockets.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

So quoth I to him, “Furnish me with some wood,” which being brought, I sought me a clever carpenter and sitting by him showed him how to make the saddle-tree, portraying for him the fashion thereof in ink on the wood.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then I took wool and teased it and made felt of it, and, covering the saddle-tree with leather, stuffed it and polished it and attached the girth and stirrup leathers; after which I fetched a blacksmith and described to him the fashion of the stirrups and bridle-bit.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Instead, he made a dash for Sheba, grabbing the saddle-tree, his left foot finding the stirrup in time to leverage him up high onto the saddle with one leap, his most successful mount so far.

The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

Easily ahead by seven lengths he lost his concentration, hit the roots of the unyielding birch and turned a somersault over his rider, landing his whole half-ton mass upside down with the saddle-tree and his withers crushing the rib cage of the man beneath.

Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

What he did at the time was to give Moggie Reilly precious seconds in which to grasp the saddle-tree, throw his legs astride Storm Cone and lurch into some sort of equilibrium before his mount bunched his quarters and shot over the hazardous hurdles as if powered by rockets.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

But the hard saddle-tree had hit him plumb in the belly with the weight of a big horse falling at thirty miles an hour behind it.

Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962

Mary held by the bridle another horse, whose naked saddle-tree was empty.

Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

At this place I bought two more horses, and we each got a large bullock's horn in which to carry water, swinging from the saddle-tree.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

General A.J. Smith happened to have an extra horse at Bruinsburg which I borrowed, with a saddle-tree without upholstering further than stirrups.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger