Steed in example sentence

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer’s son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which, dangling from a leather baldric, hit against the calves of its owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback.

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Mounting his skinny steed, the protagonist of Don Quixote charges an army of giants.

This seemed to sort of lighten the boat, and it went on much easier, the small boy shouting at the top of his voice, and urging his steed into a gallop.

To her it appeared that even the steed of this youthful soldier seemed to be conscious that he sustained the weight of no common man: his hoofs but lightly touched the earth, and his airy tread was the curbed motion of a blooded charger.

The steed I mounted carried me, greatly against my will, I acknowledge, into the very center of Dunwoodie's men.""And you were again captured," continued the father, casting a fearful glance on the armed attendants who had entered the room.

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