My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow
He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.
Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.
Will loved to gallop.
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?
At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.
I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages. ' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.
Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
Why do you need to gallop while you fly?" "Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.
