'Brilliant indeed, sir,' returned Joe, rising in his
stirrups to get a better view.
They carry you out, just as they carry a sun-struck man to the drug store, and put you on, and help get you to rights, and fix your feet in the
stirrups; and all the while you do feel so strange and stuffy and like somebody else -- like somebody that has been mar- ried on a sudden, or struck by lightning, or something like that, and hasn't quite fetched around yet, and is sort of numb, and can't just get his bearings.
To extricate himself from the
stirrups and fallen steed, was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment; and, stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror.
He is cased in a cuirass of double-fold deer skin, and carries a bull's hide shield; he is forked in a Moorish saddle, high before and behind; his feet are thrust into wooden box
stirrups, of Moorish fashion, and a tremendous pair of iron spurs, fastened by chains, jingle at his heels.
Daylight superintended the preparations, adjusting the curb strap and the
stirrup length, and doing the cinching.
The French dragoon officer was hopping with one foot on the ground, the other being caught in the
stirrup. His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror.
And when I had told him he staggered as though he had been struck full in the face, so that he was compelled to grasp my
stirrup leather for support.
One
stirrup had gone, and he was riding with his leg quite stiff.
Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton
stirrup. It was a part, at once of Mrs.
Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a
stirrup to descend by.
Before the mare had time to move, Vronsky stepped with an agile, vigorous movement into the steel-toothed
stirrup, and lightly and firmly seated himself on the creaking leather of the saddle.
Her lover was out of the saddle and clear of Comanche, though held to the animal by his right foot, which was caught in the
stirrup. The slope was too steep for them to come to a stop.