Thesaurus / ride herd on

ride herd on

How to use ride herd on in a sentence

Possibly, he would not shy at such monstrosities after twenty miles of a lathering ride.

The other day an excursion was arranged to Sondershausen, a town about three hours' ride from Weimar in the cars.

The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.

The farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

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Coppy, in a tone of too-hastily-assumed authority, had told her over night that she must not ride out by the river.

"He means that the fairies are here, and that means that we won't get our ride," said the Goblin, rather sulkily.

Who can explain the sixth sense that warns a night-herder of a stampede a moment before the herd jumps off the bed-ground?

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But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.

I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.

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