equestrian skill
Example Sentences
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They are approaching it at a like rate of speed; for although the horses appear to be in a gallop, it is only a fancy gait fashionable among Spanish-Americans, its purpose to exhibit equestrian skill.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
I don’t like to be defeated, and I should not like to abandon the undertaking on account of my want of equestrian skill.
From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.
These manoeuvres were executed by the young warriors, apparently in a spirit of bravado, and with the design of showing off their courage and equestrian skill.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
Even the vainglorious Plante, who piqued himself on his equestrian skill, was once or twice nearly unhorsed, from having chosen his road badly.
From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill
Among these did Hector mingle, performing arduous deeds with his spear and equestrian skill, and he was laying waste the phalanxes of youths.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
