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Example sentences for "white horse"

  • The two ladies then described the rider they had seen, and were still more puzzled when told that no one had appeared with the hounds wearing a red coat and riding a white horse!

  • Turning round to see if there was any available help, the minister was astonished to find close to his side a horseman in a dark dress, mounted on a white horse.

  • White Horse, at this time, was purely a make-shift camp, hence it had no facilities for gambling.

  • I've heard a lot about this canon and them White Horse Rapids.

  • Of all the women in White Horse, the Countess alone was qualified to assume charge of an innocent child like this, and he determined to call upon her as soon as he had summoned medical assistance.

  • And there stood a beautiful youth clad in clothes of silver tissue, and holding a milk-white horse by the bridle.

  • When evening drew near a troop of horsemen came, bringing a white horse with a saddle and bridle of gold studded with precious stones, to take the prince to the queen's palace.

  • The old king did not know his own son in the kingly young king who sat upon his snow-white horse.

  • He sees in the stable a white horse and a black cow, with a white or luminous-headed calf.

  • When the day begins to appear, Basilica sees before her a white horseman, dressed all in white, upon a white horse, caparisoned in white.

  • Nothing stirred; only the thing that they took for a horse--a white horse--seemed to be moving on Jevers Island.

  • Several hundred feet to the north he saw what they had taken for a white horse; and now--yes, the figure of the boy came marching straight up to it.

  • The latter was busily rubbing his hip: "No, sir, I can manage still; but let the devil ride that white horse!

  • Then I jumped down from my brown horse and looked into the white horse's mouth and saw that it was still a young animal.

  • And now he saw that there were folk come before him on this green place, and keen-sighted as he was, could make out that three men were on the hither side of the oak-trees, and on the further side of them was a white horse.

  • So presently I saw that it was a weaponed man riding a white horse, and anon he had come up to me and drawn rein before me.

  • No one who has ever been in action but remembers how naturally every rifle turns toward the man on a white horse; no one but has observed how a bit of red enrages the bull of battle.

  • Galloping rapidly along in the edge of the open ground comes a young officer on a snow-white horse.

  • To the unaided eye there is nothing but a black figure on a white horse, tracing slow zigzags against the slope of a distant hill--so slowly they seem almost to creep.

  • Looking backward, Jane saw Tull's white horse not a mile distant, with riders strung out in a long line behind him.

  • Across the mounds of rock and sage Jane caught sight of a band of riders filing out of the narrow neck of the Pass; and in the lead was a white horse, which, even at a distance of a mile or more, she knew.

  • Jane looked back over the long stretch of sage, and found the narrow gap in the wall, out of which came a file of dark horses with a white horse in the lead.

  • Soon Venters recognized Tull's white horse, and concluded that the riders had likewise recognized Black Star and Night.

  • A white horse figures in the superstition of school children.

  • The Cheap Jack's white horse had a point of resemblance to the "genteel human beings" of whom he had been speaking.

  • It was the Cheap Jack's white horse, which he had been trying to persuade the landlord to buy as a cab-horse.

  • The Gambrevault company had fallen back upon the woods unseen, and had watched the Gerainters massing in the city meadows about a red banner and one in armour upon a white horse.

  • As for the lady riding upon the white horse, mark you, sirs, let her be as the Virgin out of heaven.

  • Yet before all, the man's tawny eyes watched for a red banner, and a woman in armour upon a white horse, Yeoland, wife of Flavian of Gambrevault.

  • Few sights were more amusing than the "White Horse Cellar," Piccadilly, in the old times of coaching.

  • In our day, the interesting sight of some well-appointed coach drawn up before the old "White Horse Cellar" may still be witnessed, divested of the noise and confusion of former times.

  • Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, To see a fine lady ride on a white horse; With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, She shall have music wherever she goes.

  • As he rounded it and came into the open country, he saw a broken wayside cross, and near it a horseman mounted on a white horse as big and raking in the build as its rider.

  • Prince Rupert had sent him spurring with a message to the big rider of a white horse, who was to be found somewhere on the road leading from the north to Banbury; and the password was "A Mecca for the King.

  • A league this side of Bolton, where the track climbed steep between banks of ling and bilberry, he saw a man striding a white horse.

  • A white horse on a yellow ground is to-day the Hanoverian banner, its origin being undoubtedly Odinistic.

  • Wodan also appears in the Schimmelreiter--headless rider on a white horse, in Swabia called Bachreiter or Junker Jaekele.

  • It was a white horse, of course, that became their symbol of triumph.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    half laughing; similia similibus; thy seed after thee; white background; white bear; white birch; white chalk; white color; white enamel; white fish; white garments; white grapes; white hand; white hands; white heat; white marble; white mice; white rose; white spots; white steed; white steeds; white sugar; white tissue; white waistcoat; white wine; white wool