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ANIMALS IN MOTION. 
Addison, Spectator, 56, “saw ... a milk-white steed 
. . . full stretch.” 
Le Sage (Smollett) says Gil Bias went off “at a 
round gallop.” 
Sterne, in “Tristam Shandy,” takes “a good rattling 
gallop.” 
Thomson, in the “Castle of Indolence,” Canto II. 
vi.— 
“ Pricked through the forest to dislodge his prey.” 
Scott, “ Marmion,” Canto I. iii.— 
“A horseman darting from the crowd ;” 
and in the same poem, Canto V. ix.— 
“. . . straining on the tighten’d rein 
Scours doubly swift o’er hill and plain ; ” 
also VI. xv.— 
“ The steed along the drawbridge flies.” 
Among other words and expressions used by Scott as 
indicative of extreme speed are, “ rode amain,” “rushed,” 
“plunged,” “headlong course,” “ pricked,” “ spurred fast,” 
“full career,” “speedy gallop,” “full gallop,” “bolted,” 
“shot ahead,” “ sweep,” and so forth. 
Wordsworth, Prelude X.— 
“. . . beat with thundering hoofs the level sand.” 
In “ Christabel,” Coleridge’s— 
. . palfrey was as fleet as wind, 
. . . they spurred amain.” 
Byron’s wolf in “ Mazeppa,” xii., had a “long gallop.” 
In “The Giaour,” he asks— 
“Who thundering comes on blackest steed, 
With slacken’d bit and hoof of speed ? ” 
and in “Lara,” Canto II. xxiv.— 
“And instant spurr’d him into panting speed.” 
In the “Nurse’s Story,” “ Ingoldsby Legends”— 
“ A queer-looking horseman . . . puts spurs to his hack, makes a 
dash through the crowd, and is off in a crack.” 
Combe, in “ Dr. Syntax,” has—- 
“The jockies whipped; the horses ran.” 
Sheridan, in “ A Trip to Scarborough,” speaks of 
“a running horse.” 
Matthew Arnold, in “ Balder Dead,” describes how 
“Odin gallop’d . . . like a whirlwind.” 
In “How they brought the Good News from Ghent 
to Aix,” Browning, in eight lines of the poem, uses 
“gallop” ten times. It is possible the poet could have 
explained his reason for so doing. 
