Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sick or galled with much or heavy riding.
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Examples
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From there only the danger of getting saddle-sick after our long disuse of horses and the certainty of getting saddle-sore, as we did, restrained us.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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We all reached home in much better humour than we had left it; but the girls were dreadfully saddle-sick.
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"Hey, Nancy! get me a kitchen chair," the town-bred Yeoman at last would say in desperation to his elderly commiserating maid-servant in the distance; and from that steady halfway stand he would climb into the saddle with a groan, settle himself sack fashion, and, working the bridle laboriously with his arms, trot off, to return very saddle-sick.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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I wish Felicissimus were saddle-sick forever and a day!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Dear ERSKINE, -- Had Philip of Macedon been saddle-sick with riding up and down the country after his unruly son Alexander, and been waiting in extreme pain, till the surgeon of the next village brought him emollient relief, he could not have been more impatient than I am for a return to my last letter.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767
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