rowels

And so it rowels me awake until the appointed time.

Chapter 30 2010

“You are right,” answered the Benedictine; and again consulting his memoranda, he added, “the arms on the dexter side are those of Glendinning, being a cross parted by a cross indented and countercharged of the same; and on the sinister three spur-rowels for those of Avenel; they are two ancient families, now almost extinct in this country — the arms part y per pale.”

The Monastery 2008

He introduced the treacherous Apache and the mounted horseman with jingling rowels.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

No, I mean, it certainly criticizes policies he espouses, I'm sure, but you know, it was really sparked off by some rowels (ph) with some Republican friends of mine.

CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2005 2005

I struck the spurs into him past the rowels, and away he went at full gallop; while I had enough to do to hold on, with the little girl lying in front of me.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

He had frequently reiterated “Half Way House, you wear spur;” and, on our remounting, he buckled on my foot a heavy rusty Mexican spur, with jingling ornaments and rowels an inch and a half long.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Forward, good horse, forward — ambition and haughty hope of power, pleasure, and revenge strike their stings as deep through my bosom as I plunge the rowels in thy flanks.

Kenilworth 2004

I got down on foot with difficulty; a difficulty much increased by the long rowels of my spurs, which caught on the rocks and entangled my dress, the simple expedient of taking them off not having occurred to me!

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

‘You did,’ said Alick Polwarth, who was already returned, having met a trooper by whom he despatched an account of what was going forward to the Baron of Bradwardine, while he himself returned to his master at full gallop, neither sparing the rowels of his spurs nor the sides of his horse.

Waverley 2004

Now these fine trees had taken advantage of the west winds, and the moisture, and the promise of the spring time, so as to fill the tips of the spray-wood and the rowels all up the branches with a crowd of eager blossom.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004