As though she did not know which foot to put first, Frou-Frou started, dragging at the reins with her long neck, and as though she were on springs, shaking her rider from side to side.
Frou-Frou started into a gallop, her left foot forward, made two bounds, and fretting at the tightened reins, passed into a jolting trot, bumping her rider up and down.
Vasili Andreevich, who was wearing two fur-lined coats one over the other, was already in the sledge, his broad back filling nearly its whole rounded width, and taking the reins he immediately touched the horse.
Then he ran back to the shed pulling the playful young horse, who wanted to gambol all over the yard, by the rein.
Winkle had no sooner touched the reins, than he slipped them over his head, and darted backwards to their full length.
Pickwick was the very personation of kindness and humanity: he threw the reins on the horse's back, and having descended from his seat, carefully drew the chaise into the hedge, lest anything should come along the road, and stepped back to the assistance of his distressed companion, leaving Mr.
Zeb shook the
reins and urged him to go, but Jim was stubborn.
"Gee up, my darlings!" shouted Nicholas, pulling the reins to one side and flourishing the whip.
Zakhar, while still keeping his arms extended, raised one hand with the reins.
I say further, and lay my saying to your heart--if Minerva sees fit to vouchsafe me the glory of killing both, stay your horses here and make the reins fast to the rim of the chariot; then be sure you spring Aeneas' horses and drive them from the Trojan to the Achaean ranks.
He made his own horses fast, away from the hurly-burly, by binding the reins to the rim of the chariot.
“This goes to prove that I turned the horses with the
reins, for no man who is shot in the right shoulder can have strength enough to bring round such obstinate devils.