tent-pegging

In my experience, they know all about eclipses, and a monocle isn't likely to impress an aborigine who wears a bone through his nose. 36 So don't imagine that my tent-pegging had impressed the Apaches overmuch; it hadn't.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Still I paid no attention, but walked back to my pony, picked up the lance, turned to Mangas, and spoke my piece so that everyone should hear; while I was quaking inwardly, I flattered myself I'd kept a steady, careless front; I looked him in the eye, and hoped to God I was right, and that they'd never heard of tent-pegging.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Apart from languages and fornication, horsemanship is my only accomplishment, and I'd been well-grounded in tent-pegging by the late Muhammed Iqbal, so it was no surprise that I took the greatest number of pegs, and would have got even more if I'd had a pony that I knew, and my lance hadn't snapped in a touch peg on the last round.

Fiancée 2010

They had come out to watch the tent-pegging, and every one of them had seen his bitter humiliation.

Burmese Days 2002

When Flory reached his gate he looked back and saw that the chestnut pony had already been caught and re-saddled, and Verrall was tent-pegging upon it.

Burmese Days 2002

There were advance parties from all the regiments; the first thing I saw was Sikh riders in the red puggarees of Fane's Horse and the blue of Probyn's, tent-pegging on the beach, with white troopers cheering 'em on — and to my astonishment they were Dragoon Guards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

There were advance parties from all the regiments; the first thing I saw was Sikh riders in the red puggarees of Fane's Horse and the blue of Probyn's, tent-pegging on the beach, with white troopers cheering 'em on - and to my astonishment they were Dragoon Guards.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

There were advance parties from all the regiments; the first thing I saw was Sikh riders in the red puggarees of Fane's Horse and the blue of Probyn's, tent-pegging on the beach, with white troopers cheering 'em on - and to my astonishment they were Dragoon Guards.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Still I paid no attention, but walked back to my pony, picked up the lance, turned to Mangas, and spoke my piece so that everyone should hear; while I was quaking inwardly, I flattered myself I'd kept a steady, careless front; I looked him in the eye, and hoped to God I was right, and that they'd never heard of tent-pegging.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

In my experience, they know all about eclipses, and a monocle isn't likely to impress an aborigine who wears a bone through his nose. 36 So don't imagine that my tent-pegging had impressed the Apaches overmuch; it hadn't.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982