roughrider

Example Sentences

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They are more ready to copy a corps of roughriders than a Roman cohort.

From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela

An army of roughriders might have launched it, but as bushmen generally travel in single file, it lay a silent reproach to the wisdom of Governments.

From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie

Friends came to his rescue, however, and bid in his famous white horse, Ishan, which the Colonel always rode at the head of his roughriders.

From The Aventures of Buffalo Bill by Cody, Col. William F.

Lord Strathcona, formerly Donald Smith of the Canadian Pacific syndicate, by a deed recalling feudal days, provided the funds to send overseas the Strathcona Horse, roughriders from the Canadian West.

From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas