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Example sentences for "pommel"

Lexicographically close words:
pomegranate; pomegranates; pomelo; pomerium; pomme; pommelled; pommels; pommer; pommes; pomologists
  1. Leaning over the pommel of his saddle he recounted the occurrences of the night before, beginning with his search for Quade and the half-breed, and his experience with the woman who rode the bear.

  2. He put a sixth cartridge into the chamber of his rifle, and carried the weapon across the pommel of his saddle.

  3. The saddle is narrow, in the Turko-Cossack style; in front it has a pommel, and in the pommel are set precious stones; the seat is covered with a damask pad.

  4. The Judge carried out Robak’s instructions and sat down on the bed beside him; but Gerwazy remained standing, resting his elbow on the pommel of his sword, and leaning his bent brow on his hands.

  5. The Riders followed her, each running to her pony, quickly coiling the lead rope about the pommel of her saddle and mounting.

  6. The horses went to the saddle blocks, selected their saddles, lifted them by the little pommel and carried them to Jess like obedient children.

  7. Jean himself promptly decided that reins were a delusion and a snare (Robin's mouth was hard) and let them go to grasp the pommel of his Mexican saddle.

  8. The pommel is very high, and when the rider is seated on it, he is perched high above the back of the animal.

  9. Perhaps the safest, though not the most comfortable, mode of sitting is by crossing the legs in front, and merely grasping the pommel with the hands.

  10. The Peers at a conference begin to pommel each other.

  11. Allen dropped his reins over the pommel and seized his Winchester.

  12. He hooked Jim's two gun belts over the pommel of the outlaw's saddled gray and then swung into the saddle.

  13. Lucy laid her right hand on the pommel and resigned her left foot; Mr. Talboys put his hand under that foot and heaved her smoothly into the saddle.

  14. He was riding heavily, sagged forward, with one hand on the high pommel of the Mexican saddle.

  15. He rode with his hand on the pommel of the saddle.

  16. He stepped closer and dropped a confidential hand on the pommel of the saddle.

  17. But Haw-Haw Langley cast a frightened glance on either side; his head making birdlike, pecking notions, and then he leaned over the pommel of his saddle with a wail of despair and spurred off into the rain.

  18. It came again, suddenly as before, sharp, and keen as a shaft of light in the blackest heart of night, and Mac Strann leaned over the pommel of his saddle with a groan, and drove the spurs home.

  19. The red mare did likewise, nearly flinging the doctor over the back of the saddle, but by the grace of God he clutched the pommel in time and was saved.

  20. The woman puts her left foot, therefore, in a man's right hand, and holds to the pommel with her right hand.

  21. He takes the reins in his right hand and with it grasps the pommel of the saddle, shortening the reins until he feels the mouth of the horse.

  22. If any one had noticed Fazil Khan, they would have seen him smoothing a cushion, as it were, of cloths upon the pommel of his saddle, while he wakened his horse with an occasional touch of his leg, and kept him excited for a sudden rush.

  23. With her hand on the pommel of the saddle she stopped, and turned to Alvino.

  24. Major King reined his horse near hers as he spoke, and laid his hand on the pommel of her saddle as if he expected to meet other fingers there.

  25. Hare unbuckled his cartridge-belt, which held his Colt, and hung it over the pommel of his saddle; then he sat down on one of the stone seats near the camp-fire.

  26. Hare held to the pommel and bent dizzily forward in the saddle.

  27. With hands resting idly on the pommel Hare sat at ease in the saddle.

  28. One of them was equipped with saddle and bridle; pistols were hanging at the pommel of the saddle, a carbine was slung at its side, and a blanket rolled up behind it.

  29. Many hunters for convenience' sake carry three or four bullets in the mouth; the powder is poured down the muzzle of the piece, the bullet dropped in after it, the stock struck hard upon the pommel of the saddle, and the work is done.

  30. The water was trickling down their faces, and dropping from the ends of their rifles, and from the traps which each carried at the pommel of his saddle.

  31. Should the blow on the pommel fail to send the bullet home, or should the latter, in the act of aiming, start from its place and roll toward the muzzle, the gun would probably burst in discharging.

  32. The centre of the pommel is pierced by a very Moorish-looking horse-shoe ornament, and both sides of the timber are carved in compartments, no two of which are alike in their filling up of scroll and net-work.

  33. Looks like Callisty never had been greatly petted on Lance," Fuson put forward, flinging a leg around the pommel of his saddle and sitting at ease.

  34. A lariat carried upon the saddle pommel will be found useful in a dozen ways, and may be utilized for picketing horses.

  35. The usual method of carrying it is to insert it between the stirrup leathers on the near side, drop the sling strap at the top of the boot over the saddle pommel and buckle the sling strap at the bottom of the boot into the rear latigo ring.

  36. Memories of strange hunts and a big bird on the pommel of a high saddle.

  37. And high on the ridge the dwarfed figure of Idris threw up his hands--fell--collapsed across the pommel of his saddle!

  38. Only in speech, sir," he replied, lazily swinging one huge leg over the pommel of his saddle.

  39. Almost dead from the saddle-pommel which knocked the breath from my body, suffocated and strangled with dust, I hung dangling there in a storm of flying sticks and pebbles.

  40. Away tore the maddened beast, almost unseating his rider, who lost both stirrups at the first frantic bound and clung helplessly to his saddle-pommel while the horse carried him away like the wind.

  41. Her grey horse plunged like a galley in a rough sea, and she held to the pommel of her saddle to keep her seat.

  42. The girl was soon mounted, seated side fashion with one sandalled foot in the stirrup and one hand on the pommel to steady her.

  43. In his bosom glinted the silver pommel of a knife, and there were stains upon cloak and tessellated pavement.

  44. He crossed himself, and then stood with both hands on the pommel of his sword, stately and statuesque.

  45. Pelleas closed the gates with bowed head, and made the sign of the cross upon them with the pommel of his dagger.

  46. At the pommel of Azya's saddle she found a musket, a horn with powder, a box of bullets, a box of hemp-seed which the Tartar had the habit of chewing continually.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pommel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.