light rein
Example Sentences
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Trainer Christy Galey, who lives with her family at Muleshoe, circles Ivy with a light rein in hand, talking quietly to 15-year-old Abby, both trainer and rider constantly locking eyes with Ivy’s.
From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2017
Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course.
From Time Magazine Archive
They knew that in spite of it foreign society was lax; that the discipline of the confessional was often exercised with a light rein.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
But a light rein is needed for this wild ass of the West, Clayton.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard
Our quarrel with the mother country and our breaking away from her in spite of the extremely light rein she was driving us with, rested in reality upon very slender justification.
From A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge by Wister, Owen
