Thesaurus / amble
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There are several varieties of amble peculiar to the Peruvian horse; the most approved is that called the paso llano.
TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDIIn Peru a horse is valued less for beauty of form than for the perfection of his amble.
TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDIHorace is always on the amble, Juvenal on the gallop; but his way is perpetually on carpet-ground.
DRYDEN'S WORKS (13 OF 18): TRANSLATIONS; PASTORALSJOHN DRYDENSally Blake and a bare kneed lad began to amble behind the foreigners, he taking his cue smartly and lolling out his tongue.
LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOODIt seemed to amble tranquilly through the forest and the night, neither alarmed nor considering itself alarming.
OPERATION TERRORWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINSHere Tiger rode up to me again, and talking and jesting, we kept our horses at a brisk amble, while Jack trotted after us.
THE BACKWOODSMANVARIOUSHe was awkward and indifferent, but not at all with the easy amble and patrician unconcern of an English aristocrat.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHESHorses galloped, Sir, when I was twenty; they trotted when I was thirty-five; but they only amble now.
EUGENE ARAM, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONMy old horse just put his nose down close to the ground, and went along at an amble, like a dog, smelling the trail.
PLUCK ON THE LONG TRAILEDWIN L. SABINAnd he started after the pretty girl at a Fifth Avenue amble.
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