"Bareback" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the hand, I moved forward, until the intervening trees, like the falling of a curtain, hid it all from view. Seth was astride the old mare, riding bareback, his white goat-like beard hanging down his breast until it mingled with her mane, while his long thin legs were drawn up in the awkward way he had. He was a strange, silent, gloomy man, as austere ...
— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish
... brother, who ever became an author, certainly an author of fiction, and so I cannot speak on the subject with authority. But in the case of Richard, if he was not born an author, certainly no other career was ever considered. So far as I know he never even wanted to go to sea or to be a bareback rider in a circus. A boy, if he loves his father, usually wants to follow in his professional footsteps, and in the case of Richard, he had the double inspiration of following both in the footsteps of his father and ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... suits me, and we'll fight it out bareback on buckin' broncos, out in the small corral, each feller armed with a stockin' full ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... I felt much more anxious than I wanted to let you see. I had no idea where to go. I knew there were no houses along our trail and I might have to go clean back to the tepees—fifteen miles bareback. I didn't dare try any other trail, for I knew nothing of them and wasn't sure that there were even tepees on them. But when I had gone about six miles I saw a welcome sight—nothing less than a spiral of blue, homely-looking ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery |
