| 单词 | crupper |
| 例句 | Lancelot leaned on the withers of his horse, lifted his right leg over the crupper, and found himself on the ground. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tenderly he buckled the crupper, and the horse edged around to try to kick him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily, the hatch is covered by a bronze version of a crupper strap, which runs from the saddle to a loop around the horse’s tail. City Room: A Flashlight’s Peek Inside a Sculptor’s Masterpiece 2013-08-11T21:34:55Z He at once caught the mule a terrific whack on the crupper, causing the animal to leap forward and leave Mrs. Gainsborough and the saddle in the path. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The man made no comment aloud, but jerked him roughly to the crupper; and bidding him hold fast, started the horse, which, setting off at an easy amble, quickly bore them out of F�camp. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z These, too, they passed without suspicion, and so went jolting and clinking down the valley, every man with a bundle at his crupper, and strange odds and ends banging and swinging against his horse's sides. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Elizabeth Hubbard was riding home from meeting on the crupper, behind old Clement Coldum. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The crupper strap in the Sherman Monument can be unscrewed and pulled aside to allow the hatch door to be lifted off. City Room: A Flashlight’s Peek Inside a Sculptor’s Masterpiece 2013-08-11T21:34:55Z Every man had a great bundle on his crupper, and some a woman; and every man rode gorgeous in silk or Genoa, or rich furs, with feathers and such like gewgaws. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z A crupper should never be used; a horse that requires one is not fit for a lady. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z The saddle itself is smoothly covered with a soft ornamental cover made to fit it, and the crupper, breastplate, and headstall are frequently of crimson leather embroidered in gold, or stitched ingeniously with turquoise beads. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The trooper, a brawny Kurd, stooped, took Burnet by the middle, and hoisted him with apparent ease to the horse's crupper. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z The anterior region of the crupper is thus much broader than that occupied by the ischia. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The noble savage had to ride into camp ignominiously perched on the crupper of Chisholm’s saddle. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Their saddles were fitted with strong martingales and cruppers and with triple girths so that they could not shift. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z He is said to have been urged to this act of savagery by one al-Bazbáz, who was riding behind him on the crupper. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z You ride well—that is, upon several horses, with one foot upon the crupper of the first, and the other upon the shoulder of the fourth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The width of the crupper, from one haunch to the other, often very slightly exceeds its length.’ Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The Lapith attacks the Centaur from behind, resting his right knee on his crupper, and extending forward his 134 right arm to seize the neck of his foe. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The necessary funds were scraped together, a horse was bought, and I started with my grandson at the crupper. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z If I have ever expected in my life to cut down so many of those scoundrels, I am not fit to be the crupper of a saddle. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Hall’s legs were firmly gripping Tsetse behind the ears while he sprawled on his stomach on Snowball’s crupper, with the reins still in one hand and the rifle in the other. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z ‘The crupper, such as we have just defined it, D, H, may also be found to a fair degree of exactness, as regards length, four times on the same horse.’ Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Responding, I seized his hand, placed my foot upon his and swung to his crupper. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z This morning I left Domremy at dawn with my niece on the crupper of my horse. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Stable the horses—but first bring in the bundle from my crupper. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z "Ride, ride," she added, in a commanding but wild tone, "nor look behind till ye are safe within the gates, lest ye care to see the evil one astraddle of your crupper." Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z In quadrupeds it contributes to form the superficial part of the crupper and the external surface of the thigh. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Suddenly he interrupted in his impetuous way, asking: "Are you the man I took on my crupper that day down there by Dranesville?" Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The mule was timid, and started so much upon his touching the bridle, that, rising on her hind-legs, she threw her rider over the crupper to the ground. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z A good, solid Normandy mare this time, a perfect contrast to Belle Amie, short and thick in the legs, with a broad crupper, and a sleepy look in her eye. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He had taken the youngest before him; the other, a boy of ten years of age, rode upon the mule's crupper. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z This causes the superior part of the crupper to be less oblique than in the horse. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z I’ll find room for all o’ ye—some on the crupper, and the rest on the withers. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z "Two persons," answered the lady; "one in the saddle, and the other on the crupper; and generally these two persons are the knight and his squire, when there is no stolen damsel in the case." The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z I therefore followed close at his crupper, our only light being the glow emitted from the gypsy’s cigar; at last he flung it from his mouth into a puddle, and we were then in darkness. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z When riding, the lady usually mounts behind her lover, and, with nothing to steady her but a scarf fastened to the crupper, will gallop unconcernedly over mountain-roads and through crooked lanes at the greatest speed. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The width of the crupper or of the haunches, taken from the inferior points of the angles of the ilia. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Across the crupper of one of the animals were slung a saddle-bag of oats and a bale of grass tied with a cord; the other horse carried a valise. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It were a good jest, indeed, for me, who can hardly sit my own Dapple, though upon a pannel softer than silk, to think of bestriding a wooden crupper, without either pillow or cushion! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z I screeched out; and, as I said the word, he sprang out of the saddle, and fell back over his horse’s crupper to the ground. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Prisoners were seated behind the cruppers of some of the more merciful, and the flank of each grey steed was dyed with clotted human gore. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The height of the crupper, viewed laterally, taken from the summit of the posterior angles of the ilia to the point of the patella, the leg being in a state of rest. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Christian will take his daughter on the crupper of his horse. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z And let the squire, if he has one," continued the savage, "mount the crupper, and trust to valorous Malambruno; for no other shall do him harm. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z My son, mount your horse, take your wife on the crupper, and let us depart! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z He nimbly mounts the crupper of his now unladen dromedary, and at a trot moves down the bazaar on his way back to the town of Lahedge. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The distance of the point of the elbow to the summit of the crupper or the posterior angles of the ilia. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z He was on horseback, and behind him, wrapped in a cloak on the crupper of his mount, he brought—a nun! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z These latter carried upon their cruppers game bags, the contents of which were speedily displayed; four birds, a kangaroo, twenty muskrats, a monkey, two hares, and half a dozen beaver rats, were laid before me. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z A lighter saddle, provided behind the principal one, enabled the husband to take his wife on the crupper of his mount. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z He flew about, capered, and kicked out his heels, as if a flame of fire had lighted on his crupper. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Finally, the difference of the height of the crupper with respect to the summit of the withers. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z A cutlass hung from his side, his holsters were furnished with pistols, and his wide brown coat flowed down over the crupper of his horse. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z A body of cavalry was in the van,—each of the troopers holding one or two children on the saddle before him, with sometimes a third on the crupper clinging to his back. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Nomino�, with his wife on the crupper of his horse, saw with as much surprise as anxiety his father a prisoner of the soldiers. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Hearken, Lazaro, thou varlet, that flingest my mailed shirt over thy crupper, as if it were a vile horse-cloth," he cried to the younger follower, "have more care what thou art doing. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico The crupper, from the point of the haunch to that of the buttock, D, F, is always less than that of the head. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Odet stretched out his arms, and dropped backward bleeding upon the crupper of his horse. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The depth of the inundation was said to be in the deepest parts over a man's head, and in the shallowest it came up to the horses' cruppers. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar You forget that you have your wife on your crupper. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z She fell over backward, and her inert body jolted up and down over the camel's crupper. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter He then hung an additional pair of copper vessels across the crupper, chirruped to the beast, and went forward to face his fate with as good a heart as might be within his breast. The Firebrand A light iron mail covered the neck, chest and crupper of the spirited steed. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z It would be good news to hear that Sumpter was near their cruppers, which, by the by, is not onlikely neither. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency If he meets any traveller, he takes him on his crupper, and vanishes forthwith at full gallop. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Suddenly his straw hat was taken off by the wind, and went fluttering over the animal's crupper. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation I was on the crupper of Mylio's horse; a friend of his accompanied us on a mule. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades His Turkish silver-grey horse was cased at the neck, chest and crupper in light flexible sheets of chiseled and richly gilt steel. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z In appearance old Joe was a weird, uncanny being that made the creeps run up and down one's crupper bone. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter He had behind him, on the crupper, a boy of twelve years old. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 One bullet cut the crupper of his horse, another grazed his mane. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools No martingales, but breastplates and crupper, a huge, heavy saddle, with single hide-girth, over two numdahs, completed the equipment which a thirteen-hand pony, all mane and tail, was trying to get rid of. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Give me your word that you will not attempt to throw me, or get the better of me, and I will let you mount behind on the crupper. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War Is not this a fine trot on the devil’s crupper? Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series We met neither red horse nor white knight, and no genius took us on his crupper, to bear us away to his solitary abode. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 With Blondel, my Good Genius would walk beside me, or occasionally get up on the crupper, but never leave me or desert me. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Something had gone wrong with a crupper, a piece of blue and white punkah-cord. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel At last something cracked: the staple in the back of my saddle gave way; off flew the crupper, and I thought at first my horse's tail was gone with it. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant So he sat on his haunches with his nose in the air, and the cake got up by his tail till it sat on his crupper. The Irish Fairy Book Insomuch that, a clamour arising, poor Sodoma came within an ace of being stoned by the boys and the populace, with his horse and the ape that he had with him on the crupper. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma In fetching her from the burg, the brutal leude had barely given her time to dress before lifting her on the crupper of his horse. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The marks of the crupper, aparejo and girth never would disappear. Bring Me His Ears Each donkey was led by one man, while another walked by its side with his hand upon the crupper. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant Here's a hank of twine, Hamish, tie them altogether by the legs, and hang them, in two divisions of equal weights, over the crupper of Surefoot. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) My companion objected to travelling on horseback; he could not stomach the peculiar Moorish saddle with its high-peaked cantle and crupper, and its catch-and-carry stirrups. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Her nocturnal ride on the crupper of the Frankish warrior's horse, the burning of the episcopal villa, the strange aspect of the Vagres—how many subjects of alarm to her young heart! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Groaning from the tightness of the cinches they stood trembling while the huge cruppers were put into place and breast straps tightened. Bring Me His Ears He met an old man on horseback, with a bright-faced girl riding behind him on the crupper, who bade him a pleasant good morning, and pursued their way. Cudjo's Cave Placing his hand on its crupper, he vaulted into the saddle, bade good-bye to the astonished rustics, and while they gazed at him open-mouthed, vanished ‘like a flash.’ Legends & Romances of Brittany They sat, side by side, looking straight before them over the horse's bobbing crupper, until the hansom pulled up sharply before the broad and brilliantly illuminated entrance of the "Rockingham." The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel One old plow-horse came along, led by a sturdy patriarch, crowded from mane to crupper with children of assorted sizes. Kildares of Storm It sat with me on the crupper as we rode into Roy's tavern. Dwellers in the Hills Certain staccato epithets meant merely that Subrosa was objecting to the crupper. Rim o' the World The Marquis told his serving-man to place the child on the crupper of his horse, as he had taken a fancy to him and would adopt him. Legends & Romances of Brittany He had yielded at last to an uncontrollable impulse which was perhaps part of his inheritance from the old moss troopers, who had carried off their brides on the crupper. Thurston of Orchard Valley Some got away straddling the crupper, some embracing their steeds about the neck. Kildares of Storm I good naturedly offered to take him on the crupper, and let him ride as far as the market-place, and he eagerly thanked me. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 The load was then tied closely to the crupper of the saddle and the boy was ready to start on his homeward trip. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas He took the child in his arms and swung her on to the crupper of his saddle. Legends & Romances of Brittany In an instant they had him down and bound and prisoner, one man against a thousand; and they fastened him behind a man-at-arms, on the crupper, to take him into Sant' Angelo alive. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome I therefore followed close to his crupper, our only light being the glow emitted from the Gipsy’s cigar. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Her crupper was made of fine embroidery, and for a bridle she used a gold chain. Tales From Scottish Ballads A blackish band encircles the muzzle, and the usual “crupper mark” around the tail is small and of a yellowish colour. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains She set forth with her intended husband, riding on the crupper of his horse. Legends & Romances of Brittany Bringing the end of the wire just over the pony’s crupper, so smart an electric shock was given it, that the brute was almost knocked down. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The crupper was adorned with two golden lions, figured with their paws raised in the act of striking each other. Richard I Makers of History The common horse is higher, leaner, less broad on the chest, and with the crupper thinner and more depressed. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests By his side Hogben, the gatewarden, had much ado to hold his pikestaff across his horse's crupper in the thick of the people. Privy Seal His Last Venture “Come with me,” he whispered, and swinging her on to the crupper of his white horse he plunged madly into the night. Legends & Romances of Brittany Mikael, always at my side, leaped sometimes, in order to deliver a blow from a greater height, to my horse's crupper, other times he made of the animal a rampart. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death They found an old passing one which could not run away, and brought him in, rigged a rope from the boat into a bridle, and borrowed a saddle without either stirrup, girth, or crupper. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He had placed the youngest before him, and the other, a boy of ten years of age, was seated on the mule's crupper. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests A crupper is not to be despised in out-of-the-way parts abroad, when we have to ride animals of all sorts and sizes, and when we have only one saddle. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. They tried various devices to get his bundle away to carry it upon their own cruppers, but neither jest nor earnest could unstrap that homely pack. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England A crupper is always used, and straps are attached to the back of the saddle, from which the farmer hangs his sealskin bags, containing an omnium gatherum of his lighter goods. A Girl's Ride in Iceland "Back again so soon?—wi' the de'il at your crupper too!" Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 On the coast and in the interior, I have sometimes seen head-gear, bridle, and crupper, composed of finely-wrought silver rings, linked one into another. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests I yelled out; and, as I said the word, he sprang out of the saddle, and fell back over his horse's crupper to the ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 "Beca'se I kin make a better use on't," replied the sergeant, taking the strap in his hand, and making it fast to the crupper strap behind the rider. A Lieutenant at Eighteen The mule was timid, and started so much upon his touching the bridle, that, rising on her hind legs, she threw her rider over the crupper to the ground. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote And on like wise he did with her back and belly and crupper and thighs and legs. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio But no: as he passed out through the park gates, the imp perched itself again behind his crupper, urging him forward, tormenting him with the same vague sense of duty neglected and clamorous. Shining Ferry When angry, the agouti stamps with the fore-feet, grunts like a young pig, and erects the bristly hair upon its crupper after the manner of porcupines. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys I for one," returned the sexton, sharply, "would willingly exchange it for that, or any other couch, provided it rid me of this accursed crupper, which galls me sorely. Rookwood Late in the day Donald arrived with the hen-ostrich over his saddle, his back and head ornamented with the feathers, and half a dozen young birds hanging from the crupper. In the Wilds of Africa To ease the pain he traveled for six months through Southern France and Italy, but care rode on the crupper. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers For long journeys, the crupper, where it comes in contact with the tail, should be made of soft leather. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions E. O,—sixpence, that I had o’ Wednesday last To pay the saddler for my mistress’ crupper? The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Last, they lock The frames with clamps, the nether to the upper, And body forth a horse from crest to crupper In outline. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems He appeared mounted upon a white horse, caparisoned with a scarlet and blue cloth; gold tassels hung round the crupper. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. I put my lance in rest and spurred towards him, and we came together with so great an onset that I was carried far beyond the crupper of my horse. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Some horses require much more tension upon the crupper than others. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions From this high projecting back or crupper four or five sharp iron spikes were sticking out. In the Forbidden Land One turns and glances back on the traversed road, "looking over Time's crupper and over his tail," as the elder Hood put it, and it looks like a ribboned path through a cemetery. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile As Robin's hind legs flew up Jean pitched forward to bestride the horse's neck; as he bounded forward Jean rose in the air to resume his seat where a horse's crupper usually rests. Peggy Stewart at School Father Maurice felt no uneasiness at seeing him take the pretty girl on the crupper. The Devil's Pool Remounting I rode to the edge of the clump of bushes and found several of my companions, some of whom carried the carcasses of springboks at their cruppers. Six Months at the Cape Breastpiece, crupper, bridle and bit are of leather ornamented with inlaid metal pieces. In the Forbidden Land Shortly afterwards, as its body was completely immersed, I slipped off its back, taking care to hold on to its mane, near the crupper, with one hand, while I struck out with the other. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela Each of them had a gun slung over his shoulders, a huge pair of holsters with a brace of pistols in them, large saddle-bags and leathern cases strapped on at their cruppers. Twice Lost It was cool and pleasant weather, but the roads were in such wretched condition that everybody was on horseback, and each man took a companion on his crupper, whether she were young or old. The Devil's Pool While descending some slopes at an angle of I know not what, the use of our cruppers became strikingly apparent. Six Months at the Cape The more requisite articles, such as changes of linen and spare shoes, were packed in valises strapped to Larry’s and my cruppers; while the major carried such things as he required in his saddle-bags. Paddy Finn When he had got up with the animal which carried them, he put his hand on the crupper, and relaxed his speed. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories St. Leonard's Forest has another familiar; for there the headless horseman rides, not on his own horse, but on yours, seated on the crupper with his ghostly arms encircling your waist. Highways and Byways in Sussex He always rode some paces before me, and sat in an attitude half turned round, with his hand clapped upon the crupper. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Master ran after him, and, being much fleeter, kept on kicking his legs and flanks, so that they were soon covered with blood, and once he kicked so high as to cut the crupper. Six Months at the Cape The saddle was a matter of great importance, as well as its girths and crupper strap, all of which an experienced traveler subjected to most careful examination. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money And they gave each other such a shock, that the girths of their horses were broken, so that they fell over their horses’ cruppers to the ground. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 According to Kellaart, three inconspicuous brown dorsal streaks diverging and terminating on the crupper, and some very indistinct spots seen only in some lights. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Avarttas are "locks," curls, or twists of the hair in certain forms on different parts of the body—here they are apparently: forehead 1, head 2, chest 2, ribs 2, flanks 2, crupper 1. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems Neither breast strap, crupper nor martingale hampered the free movements of the sturdy, stocky little weight carriers. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier He leaned far forward on the horse's neck so that the two heads were exactly parallel, and next fell back into the saddle facing the crupper and holding on to nothing. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 And they encountered, and Peredur threw the knight over his horse’s crupper to the ground. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 If, I say, Mr. Hastings had his Council on his crupper, he could neither have given those powers to himself nor made a partition of them with Mr. Wheler. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) In an instant she had sprung upon the crupper. The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant I wish himself and his mother was behind her when I went putting the crupper on her! All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches From the consulate he went to a local stock-yard and purchased a miserable, flea-bitten, dejected saddle mule, together with a dilapidated old stock saddle with a crupper, and a well-worn horse-hair hackamore. The Pride of Palomar And without further parlance, they fought, and it was not long before Peredur brought him to the ground, over his horse’s crupper. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 But he drew rein half an hour afterward at Acland Falls, and the care that had sat on the crupper came to the front again. The Bread-winners A Social Study He was riding a very good horse, which was going lame, but without any servant, and he had his valise strapped on the crupper. Oddsfish! And the result is like that, of the fortunate fights of romance: he thrusts his antagonists straight over the crupper, he sends them rolling on the ground, and clutching its sand with their fingers. Matthew Arnold My horse fell, flinging me clean over his crupper. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Then the youth thrust at Peredur with his lance, and Peredur turned upon him, and struck him over his horse’s crupper to the ground. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 They mounted at length, the son foremost, and the father on the crupper, the saddle strapped about him, with the stirrups dangling by the horse's flanks. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Without an effort to save himself, falling rigidly and with a strange cry, Aquila dropped back over his horse's crupper into the dust of the road. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem In the wake of their magnificence two distended donkeys, on parodies of legs, staggered under loads more distended still, plump dhobies perched callously on the cruppers. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Looking over Time's crupper and over his tail, Oh, what ages and pages there are to revise! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The two rushed together, and, at the first encounter, Sir Peredur unhorsed his opponent, bearing him over the crupper with such force that he lay stunned, as one dead. Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Throwing back my rifle over the crupper; I laid it at arm's length, with muzzle full upon the buffalo's head. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America As goodly a band, I trow, as ever put foot to stirrup or fist to crupper! yet will I resolve thy question plain as Beeston Castle. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 To-day the streets were crowded with men on horseback, who had brought their wives in, seated pillion-fashion on the crupper behind them, to attend mass. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months By a chance blow the Spaniard bore him back on to the crupper. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay He nimbly mounts the crupper of his now unladen dromedary, and at a trot moves down the bazar. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 A crupper under his tail, or a thong as a breeching may be used. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Tristan seized one by his hair, as he passed, and dragged him over his mount’s crupper and held him fast: “God save you, my lord,” said he, “and whence does the dragon come?” The Romance of Tristan and Iseult "Sergeant!" he calls back, turning with a hand upon his crupper; "didn't we see a figger like this a-top o' the tower, some way back?" I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales He carried no shield, and by the ease with which he turned his body to look behind him, one hand on the crupper, Des Barres was sure that he was not in mail. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Sancho, very leisurely and unwillingly, was made to climb up; and, fixing himself as well as he could on the crupper, felt it somewhat hard and uneasy. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites One of them had his wife perched behind him on the horse's crupper. War in the Garden of Eden Robert Briquet turned toward the speaker, whose voice had a strong Gascon accent, and saw a young man from twenty to twenty-five, resting his hand on the crupper of the horse of the first speaker. The Forty-Five Guardsmen Away then, shift; Clown, to thy motley crupper. A History of Pantomime Diana declared that the Socialists would ride it to the abyss--with England on the crupper. The Testing of Diana Mallory The off horse is now very light therefore, having only collar, traces, and crupper, with an improvised strap across the back to support the traces. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Into their midst rushed the dripping stranger, and bounded suddenly upon the crupper of a young damsel who had ridden to the beach to see the sight. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 His horse's corn bag, which was made of leather, hung dangling by a rope from the crupper; this, he thought, would be the best thing he could offer to the distressed Snake. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society In the patio I found the two disputants standing much as I had left them, the staff officer gently and methodically smoothing his horse's crupper, the lieutenant with a watch in his hand. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales The two horses, tied together neck and crupper, were fasting near by. Overland I hated the crupper—to have my long tail doubled up and poked through that strap was almost as bad as the bit. Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition Sometimes a contadino, mounted on the crupper of his donkey, would pause in the sun to chat awhile with the women. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 A bullet rapped on the crupper of my saddle with a noise like a stick on a door. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Sometimes there is a whole string of these beasts, the head-rope of each tied to the crupper of his precursor—very uncomfortable passengers when met with at a narrow turning. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Sylvia remembered, had thought of nothing else from the moment she had seen far down the road the horseman vainly fleeing the black beast on his crupper. The Bent Twig Soon after that the girth of the mule's saddle broke, and having no crupper, saddle and addenda went over his head, and the flour was dispersed. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains When Ulrich had caught up with the animal which carried the women, he put his hand on the crupper, and relaxed his speed. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant They won the burro pennant honestly, if not easily, daylight being plainly visible between their foam-crested crupper and the panting nostrils of the Vanderbilts. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 War Paint's black horse snorted and whirled its crupper in wide circles. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Even his subjection was not made congruous throughout, for the harness being too short, his tail was not drawn through the crupper, so that the breeching slipped awkwardly to one side. The Woodlanders When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. Black Beauty Now, when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had made no reply except by redoubling his gait. Les Misérables Amber threw a leg over the crupper, handed the stallion's reins to the sowar, who had dismounted and drawn near, and dropped upon his feet. The Bronze Bell Ah! but he managed to get off the crupper of the Dutchman. The Spy The anger of the officers was changed into a burst of amusement at seeing Sam's dark face and staring eyes over the mule's crupper, and even Lord Wellington smiled grimly. The Young Buglers I hated the crupper; to have my long tail doubled up and poked through that strap was almost as bad as the bit. Black Beauty Some clambered up upon the cruppers of the riders and dragged them backwards from their saddles. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Tightly he clung to my crupper, that swart tireless horseman, Care; but ahead rode Love, anterior to all things and yet eternally young, in quest of the Castle of Content. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages So saying, he gave the spinster a sudden whirl, that effectually confused all her faculties, until she found herself safely, if not comfortably, seated on the crupper of Lawton's steed. The Spy Powell's spear struck Hargan so hard, that he was knocked out of the saddle and hurled, the length of a lance, over and beyond the crupper, or tail strap of his horse. Welsh Fairy Tales He left my bit rusty, my saddle damp, and my crupper stiff. Black Beauty The donkey being brought, he shuffles on to its crupper and makes a joyous and triumphant passage down through the streets of the city to his home. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 He was just girthing up old Bosun, and I was wrestling with Sirdar, who didn't want his crupper on. A Little Bush Maid He was going at a good pace when the crupper broke, and he was thrown over the donkey's head on to the stony track. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha The aparejo is furnished with a huge crupper, and this appendage is really the most cruel of all, for it is almost sure to lacerate the tail. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway The rolling of a stone, or the parting of stirrup, girth, or crupper, would have involved the safety of one's neck. Journal of an African Cruiser There is no saddle-cloth, the load rests on the ribs; the breast-strap and crupper hook into rings on the saddle; there are rings to fasten the load to; it weighs 140 pounds. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute "Knew I'd got her on a soft spot!" he murmured, wrestling with a refractory crupper. A Little Bush Maid Very well, sir; let them go on.—There you had him and his accoutrements, from the bit to the crupper.—Very well, sir; we must go to the park scene. Scarborough and the Critic Having done this, the bacon was distributed to the men also, and tied to the cruppers of their saddles. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway In other places, they stept from stone to stone, down steep descents, where the riders were obliged to lie backwards flat upon the cruppers. Journal of an African Cruiser The whole is girthed with a long rope passed twice around the body, round the neck as a breast-strap, and under the tail as a crupper. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute She could not reach the handles that looked like cruppers. We Can't Have Everything And ever he gained upon the sorrel, creeping up inch by inch, crupper and withers and nose; and thus we raced awhile, neck and neck. Peregrine's Progress But the enraged waters took him by the crupper, and we saw him, beaten, abandon himself. The Flood Owing to the steepness of the roads, a crupper is considered necessary and is usually decorated with a broad, embossed panel, from which hang little trappings reminiscent of medieval harness. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru They marched at once, the horsemen taking the foot soldiers on the crupper behind them. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 His horse approached nearly to Gawain's crupper, and the knight was persuaded that in no wise might he shake off his pursuer. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut He bound around the infant's waist a line, That fasten'd to his crupper, and then gave The babe back to her, laughing,—"That end's thine— The other stays with me;" "A witty slave!" Poems He should wash, pick, and wipe dry the legs and feet, take off the bridle and crupper, and fasten it to the rack, then the girths, and put a wisp of straw under the saddle. The Book of Household Management They are beasts of burden without cruppers, Their backs are loaded, Under a bushel their unkempt heads are hidden, They speak a patois unintelligible, You can understand nothing they say. Moorish Literature He tied my hands and legs, haled me to his horse, and flung me sack-like over the crupper. Salute to Adventurers At length, to relieve them, he commanded that each trooper should take one of the infantry on his crupper, setting the example himself by mounting a German ensign behind him on his own horse. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 "Koralay," a terra corresponding with our Saddle-back, exactly describes its shape: pommel and crupper, in the shape of two huge granite boulders, were all complete, and between them was a depression for a seat. First Footsteps in East Africa Then he took up the skirt of his thick heavy coat, and wiped down the head, mane, and shoulders of the horse, and the great pile of snow upon the crupper. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Herr Doctor Scalpel, so they say, Has got off safe and sound; At Paris I your uncle found Fast to a horse's crupper bound,— Yet Scalpel made a king his prey. The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems A moment later the two had met in a cloud of dust, and Agravaine, shooting over his horse's crupper, had fallen with a metallic clang. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Not a rope, strap, or buckle, or any of our gear gave way, and though I rode without a crupper, the breeching of a pack mule’s saddle kept mine steady. The Hawaiian Archipelago For such was their force that breast plates, horsegirths and cruppers burst. In the Court of King Arthur It was all good, for it taught the youth that life was life; and wherever you go you carry your mental and spiritual assets, as well as your cares, on the crupper. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers His saddle was red velvet, the bridle and crupper studded—with gilded knobs. The Surgeon's Daughter They gave each other such a shock that the girths of their horses were broken, so that they fell over their horses' cruppers to the ground. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 The mules lowered their cruppers and slid down the steepest slopes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 He delivered a smart smack on the crupper with his stubby whip, and pursed his lips for the companionship to be derived from whistling. The Hollow of Her Hand When Garibaldi rode into camp, with the lady on the crupper, the six red-shirted ones in waiting were not surprised. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Before he could reflect on what he was doing he was alongside of the man, and, catching him by the throat, had hurled him backwards over his crupper with all the force he could command. Jess "But were he as bold a warrior as Alexander or Arthur, Launcelot or Percevale, I will shake him out over his horse's crupper." The Junior Classics — Volume 4 The mules in going down draw their hind legs near to their fore legs, and lowering their cruppers, let themselves slide at a venture. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 I understand that they do not like you; neither do my own, but after our crupper at Monte Carlo what could mine do, except provide? The Beautiful Lady In three years this baby boy was riding behind his mother on the crupper, and another baby had come to do the papoose act. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers The lone galloper pulled clear, and Alwa's men drove his opponents, crupper over headstall, into a body of the main contingent who had raced up in pursuit. Rung Ho! Nevertheless so mightily was he struck that his stirrup leathers were broken, and he swayed over the horse's crupper and fell to the ground. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 The excited spaniel, growing bolder, barked louder and ventured as far as their cruppers, feigning to be about to bite them. Strong as Death No signs of them—returning disconsolate he took Jacky on his crupper and went over the ground with him. It Is Never Too Late to Mend Slowly three times, one after another, from a full crupper he mired. Ulysses Just previously to his being struck by the fatal bullet, one rifle-ball had cut the crupper of his saddle and smother had passed through his horse's mane close behind the ears. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo These latter carried upon their cruppers game-bags, the contents of which were speedily displayed: four birds, a kangaroo, twenty musk-rats, a monkey, two hares and half a dozen beaver rats, were laid before me. Swiss Family Robinson Dave took the reins carefully, and was about to place his foot in the stirrup when his restless eye settled on a wire-splice in the crupper—also Dad's handiwork. On Our Selection The horse cleared the rail, seemed just to touch the bank on the other side, while she threw herself back almost on to his crupper, and so came down with perfect ease. The Duke's Children Behind him, on the crupper of his horse, Giorgio beheld the body of a man, the head hanging in one direction and the legs in the other. The Life of Cesare Borgia When they stood on terra firma, the Prince found his horse and saddled and mounted him, taking Hilal upon the crupper, and rode forth to his own country. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 Presently they set forth on their homeward way; one of the Emirs seating the dame behind him on his horse's crupper while another took charge of the child. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 The worm plants them alternately in the road traversed and, by contracting its crupper, advances just that distance. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography I will take her on the crupper of my horse. Caesar and Cleopatra Nigel was beaten down on to the crupper of his horse by a sweeping blow; but at the same instant Chandos' quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat. Sir Nigel At a walk they proceeded down the lane towards the river, a groom on each side to see that the burden on the crupper did not jolt off, another going ahead to scout. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Men, women, children, hurled themselves on the cruppers and the breasts of the horses, and hung there like cats, with teeth, finger nails and toe nails. Notre-Dame De Paris When stationary, with its crupper at rest, it explores space with a continual bending of its fore part; its pointed head pokes about, jabs forward, goes back again, producing and withdrawing its black mechanism. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Out of the bushes came the huntsman who had been fighting and rode toward his young master, with the fox tied to his crupper. War and Peace Edouard took a run, and lighted like a monkey on the horse's crupper. White Lies "Put him across the crupper," he bade them. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Faithlessness combined with bad example or brazen-facedness was further treated by being led in solemn procession through the bazar mounted on a diminutive and crop-eared donkey, with the face turned towards the crupper. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Under his tail was a stick for a crupper, held at the two ends by twists of straw. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Beside him rode an hussar, with a boy in a tattered French uniform and blue cap behind him on the crupper of his horse. War and Peace The fellow spurred his horse, a splendid grey, as powerful as his master's, alongside of Croisette, threw his arm round the lad, and dragged him dexterously on to his own crupper. The House of the Wolf; a romance With one wave of my arm I had placed her on his crupper, and, with the same action, swung myself into the saddle. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody "I could bring others from Bridgewater, who saw me set out that morning upon the crupper of Master Pitt's horse." Captain Blood I turned round in the saddle, and there was Zany, with a great burdock leaf in his paw, perched up behind me on the crupper, as solemn as a judge. The Story of a Bad Boy It struck him truly between the joint of his helm and neck piece, and stretching his arms out wide he fell backward over the crupper of his horse, to move no more. Montezuma's Daughter That gloomy young man, of a bitter spirit, had a whole government in his head; the man of whom you speak had no idea beyond mounting on the crupper of every event. Z. Marcas A veil of vapour hung over the horses' cruppers, and was rendered fuller and thicker every moment with the breath that came from their nostrils. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel They both had the same movement in rising from their saddles, in throwing their leg over the crupper of their horses when dismounting, in flinging the reins upon the animal's neck. An Historical Mystery Semitzin, meanwhile, brought him to the mule, and half mechanically he scrambled into the saddle, the chest being made fast to the crupper. The Golden Fleece, a romance O,—sixpence that I had o'Wednesday last To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper;— The saddler had it, sir, I kept it not. The Comedy of Errors And then, as to his decoration: headstall, breast-bands, saddle and crupper are lavishly embroidered with beads, and hung with thimbles, hawks' bells, and bunches of ribbons. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The gloom had gathered more closely in, and round her the veil of vapour from the horses' steaming cruppers hung heavily in the misty air. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel After much consultation it seemed possible to put forty-eight thousand francs in a long sack on the crupper of each of their horses. An Historical Mystery Struck in the breast and extending his arms, the Spaniard fell back on the crupper, and the terrified horse, turning around, carried him off. Twenty Years After She had been following their movement from behind while the cruppers sped away and the legs seemed to grow longer as they raced and then diminished till they looked slender as strands of hair. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola De Chatillon opened his arms and fell back on the crupper of his horse. Twenty Years After It was enfolded in the veil of vapour which was blown out of the horses' nostrils or rising from their damp cruppers; it became more vague, almost ghost-like, through the mist and the fast-gathering gloom. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
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