light rein
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Trainer Christy Galey, who lives with her family at Muleshoe, circles Ivy with a light rein in hand, talking quietly to 15-year-old Abby, both trainer and rider constantly locking eyes with Ivy’s.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2017
Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course.
From Time Magazine Archive
They knew that in spite of it foreign society was lax; that the discipline of the confessional was often exercised with a light rein.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
But a light rein is needed for this wild ass of the West, Clayton.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
"Hold to my belt firmly," he told her, gathering into his hand the light rein.
From Six Women by Victoria Cross
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