Sentence Examples

1. In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.
2. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
3. They wore travelling spectacles and carried sunshades and behind them came a coach attended by four or five persons on horseback and two muleteers on foot.
4. I spent most of our time on horseback watching as strange animals I had never seen before hopped and trotted around the arid land we wandered through.
5. Each of them carried a stout holly staff in his hand, and along with them there came two men of quality on horseback in handsome travelling dress, with three servants on foot accompanying them.
6. The wizard watches warily from horseback then, when all are settled, dismounts and joins the king and the rest of us seated around the firesite.
7. Pictures of an intense sorcerer on horseback searching through the woods flowed into his mind.
8. The leader stood still as the others on horseback raced down the hill.
9. It depicted Lance proudly holding up the banner with Arthur on horseback behind him.
10. When Lance finally convinced him that the city was too vast to see by horseback or by walking, only then did Arthur gingerly agree.