man on horseback
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Advocates have also come across images of yellow and black coasters showing a man on horseback with his reins in the air, chasing a family of three.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
“That’s why Nietzsche said if you want to be a man on horseback, forget history, because it’ll stifle you—you’ll get full of doubts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2018
The placard features the silhouette of a man on horseback, his sturdy hat nearly grazing a bough draped in Spanish moss.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
Occasionally, a man on horseback pokes out of an alley and clip-clops down the street.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
Great siege engines lined the grassy verge of the roseroad, mangonels and trebu- chets and rolling rams mounted on wheels taller than a man on horseback.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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