riding-school

Accordingly, Paul took a fencing-lesson every morning, went to the riding-school, and practised in a pistol-gallery.

A Marriage Contract 2007

I hired a horse at the riding-school, and went out for

A Desperate Character 2006

I hired a horse at the riding-school, and went out for

Punin and Baburin 2006

My father arranged in my holidays, or vacations as it was now proper to call them, for me to go through an additional course of riding-school at Knightsbridge Barracks with the Royal Horse Guards.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

At the head of the file in the riding-school, or on the right of the squad on the Square, he had to try to set an example to the men.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

He was a good draughtsman, an excellent rider — having thoroughly mastered the successor to the famous “Uncle Tom” at the riding-school of St. Cyr — and in the records of his military service his name had several times been included in the order of the day.

Off on a Comet 2003

This had drawn upon him a flood of ridicule which perhaps led him to suppose that every smile that ever flitted across the face of one of his riding-school class was due to some inward satisfaction at his expense.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Many a time did I pick myself up shaken and sore from the riding-school tan and don again my little gold braided pork-pie cap, fastened on the chin by a boot-lace strap, with what appearance of dignity I could command, while twenty recruits grinned furtively but delightedly to see their Officer suffering the same misfortunes which it was their lot so frequently to undergo.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

I enjoyed the riding-school thoroughly, and got on—and off—as well as most.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Even before being released from the riding-school the young officers were often permitted to ride out with their troops at exercise or on route marches and even sometimes to ride serre-file1 in actual drill.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003