HORSEBACK in a Sentence
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62 example sentences for HORSEBACK, such as:
1. Come then, I will go on horseback.
2. He encountered a priest on horseback.
3. No one travels otherwise than on horseback.
4. His two companions were already on horseback.
5. Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
2. He encountered a priest on horseback.
3. No one travels otherwise than on horseback.
4. His two companions were already on horseback.
5. Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
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Meanings and Examples of HORSEBACK
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horseback
ad. on the back of a horse
n. the back of a horse
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 No one travels otherwise than on horseback.
2 He encountered a priest on horseback.
3 Come then, I will go on horseback.
4 The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, had never been in a better humor than on that day.
5 He once chanced to see a general on horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the commandant of Paris.
6 All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
7 I had better get on horseback, and go and meet her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
8 This man, except a sword, had all the appearance of a soldier; and his buff boots, still slightly covered with dust, indicated that he had been on horseback in the course of the day.
9 His two companions were already on horseback.
10 I will try to accompany you," said Aramis, "though I scarcely feel in a condition to mount on horseback.
11 She was told that he had left the castle an hour before on horseback.
12 Athos came down last, and found d'Artagnan already on horseback, and growing impatient.
13 The gravel flew again and across her vision a man on horseback galloped over the green lawn toward the lazy group under the trees.
14 From the stables, men were streaming out on horseback, negro servants riding hard behind their masters.
15 Men on horseback dashed out of side streets pell-mell down Peachtree toward Hood's headquarters.
Example Sentence:
1 Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
2 Not many of the children travel on horseback to school even in these country areas.
3 Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
4 Watching the large and varied bird population, or following assorted trails on horseback.
5 Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.