equestrian skill
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Her equestrian skill now often came in use.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows
But, far the first, arose Eumelus, king of men, the dear son of Admetus, who surpassed in equestrian skill.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Even the vainglorious Plante, who piqued himself on his equestrian skill, was once or twice nearly unhorsed, from having chosen his road badly.
From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
What especially delighted them was the equestrian skill of the Californians.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
They are approaching it at a like rate of speed; for although the horses appear to be in a gallop, it is only a fancy gait fashionable among Spanish-Americans, its purpose to exhibit equestrian skill.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
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