Read full poem →My lady has shoved her rings over her toes.
'Tis an ancient trick every night-rider knows.
But I shall relieve her of them yet,
Dictionary Entry
One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “rider”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Even as a headstrong courser bears away
His rider, vainly striving him to stay; 30
Or as a sudden gale thrusts into sea
Read full poem →part of horses takes it [a 'wil of his owne'] through the unskilfulnesse
of the rider by _bearing too hard a hand_ upon them," p. 35.
Read full poem →He came; and oft that eye so proud
Asked for his rider in the crowd.
Read full poem →The winds and waters are in his command,
Held as a courser in the rider's hand.
He lets them loose, they triumph at his will:
Read full poem →a pistol, started off at a gallop, and rushing "thorough bush, thorough
briar," carried his torn and bleeding rider into the courtyard of his
own mansion!
Read full poem →And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
Read full poem →Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew
A rider, bound on bound
Full-galloping; nor bridle drew
Read full poem →The gallant horse exhausted fell.
The impatient rider strove in vain
To rouse him with the spur and rein,
Read full poem →As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,