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  • He let go the reins of command.   (source)
    reins = means of control
  • He held back on the reins and the horse stopped.   (source)
    reins = straps used to control a horse
  • He reined the horse around   (source)
    reined = forced (the horse) in a direction by pulling on straps that are attached to the bit in its mouth
  • He reins the horse round, and wheels to face the parents.   (source)
    reins = forces (the horse) in a direction by pulling on straps that are attached to the bit in its mouth
  • (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course)   (source)
    reins = leather straps used with a bit to control a horse
  • Matthew slapped the reins on the sorrel's back delightedly.   (source)
    reins = straps attached to a bit in a horse's mouth that are used to control it
  • But now his eyes began to get bigger and bigger, and he picked up the reins on his horse's neck and looked behind him.   (source)
    reins = straps used to control a horse
  • The reins flew over his head.†   (source)
  • The animals are so well trained, no one even needs to guide their reins.†   (source)
  • Alfonso held the reins and Miguel the lantern.†   (source)
  • I began to "gallop" again, holding my invisible reins as I pretended to ride forward.†   (source)
  • Before Mr. Morrison took the reins, he handed Stacey a handkerchief in which to wrap his bruised right hand, but he did not say a word and it wasn't until we had passed the crossroads leading to Great Faith that the silence was broken.†   (source)
  • He reined in the horse and climbed down from the wagon.†   (source)
  • A tight grip on the reins is desirable.†   (source)
  • He started up the road, wheeled and headed the other way, breaking into a run and then dropping into a jerky reined-up step.†   (source)
  • Someone who'd be firm with Kitty but not rein her in so much that it would squash all the special things about her.†   (source)
  • was an admission to all in earshot that here was her favorite, so you needn't expect her to rein in his behavior.†   (source)
  • You've grown into a savvy businessman, and I was right to hand over the reins to you.†   (source)
  • What he wanted now was time to spend with his family and for someone else to grab hold of the reins of the city he loved with its daunting array of problems.†   (source)
  • They could manage well enough the first syllable, the Pea, but eventually the heat was too much and they lost control of their frothy-mouthed steeds and could no longer rein them in for the climb to the second syllable, the seen.†   (source)
  • My voice got shaky, and I had to rein myself in to finish my remarks.†   (source)
  • He tried to keep a rein on this but his heart was not in it.†   (source)
  • You've got the reins, but don't make a move without talking to me.†   (source)
  • H9 The driver pulled on his reins to stop the horses.†   (source)
  • He pulled Buckbeak's rope back over his neck and tied it to the other side of his collar like reins.†   (source)
  • She reins in her panic.†   (source)
  • In what seemed like no time, a man walked up and climbed onto the horse, flicked its reins, and we lurched into juddering motion.†   (source)
  • But now it has to be reined in.†   (source)
  • "Good," Brullo said, reining his horse and surveying whoever had first returned.†   (source)
  • Robert said, reining his mount to a sudden halt beside an ancient barrow.†   (source)
  • When the ski jump was ready there was a certain amount of milling around; twenty boys, tightly reined in all winter, stood now as though with the bit firmly clamped between their teeth, ready to stampede.†   (source)
  • And then she yanked the full length of my hair like the reins of a horse and before I could fall off the stool again, she quickly twisted my hair into a single braid off to the side, weaving into it five strands of colorful silk.†   (source)
  • Chuck Parson was pretty horrible in all those years before he'd been reined in.†   (source)
  • I wish they could see me on Thursday after school when I'm on the float and Mr. Hannon hands me the reins so that he can smoke his pipe in comfort.†   (source)
  • The horse, which seemed to be obeying higher orders too, kept galloping as if it already knew their ultimate destination, even though Juan had thrown the reins aside and was passionately kissing and embracing Gertrudis.†   (source)
  • Butch flicked the reins.†   (source)
  • They had been fast asleep for some time when they were startled awake by the thudding of hoofs in the road below and the whinny of a horse suddenly reined in.†   (source)
  • He ran his hand through his hair and held on to the back of his neck, trying to rein himself in.†   (source)
  • I accepted the invisible rein she was holding out, and then we were off, riding up and down the fence, sometimes cantering, sometimes at a gallop.†   (source)
  • Holly reined in the throttle and descended to eighty metres.†   (source)
  • I stepped toward the mare and caught her reins as though to remount.†   (source)
  • His expression was smooth, the anger reined in.†   (source)
  • The imagination seemed to spring to full life in the clear air, beyond the rein of reason, and to look was to helplessly see one's self plunging down and down and down, sky and slopes changing places in slow cartwheels, the scream drifting from your mouth like a lazy balloon as your hair and your dress billowed out ...She jerked her gaze away from the drop almost by force and followed Jack's finger.†   (source)
  • He led the horse down the alley by the reins to the back door of Ford's Theatre.†   (source)
  • Here I'd thought I was leading my child gently down this conversational path but instead, he'd grabbed the reins and galloped away.†   (source)
  • A lull in the action, a brief reprieve before old man winter takes up the reins again.†   (source)
  • Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries.†   (source)
  • Tata grabbed the reins and soothed the horse while Marcus climbed on.†   (source)
  • Yet most of the Mexican girls weren't cholas; their families still had strong reins on many of them.†   (source)
  • We knew we would need to rein him in and teach him to heel properly before he dragged us to humiliating deaths beneath the wheels of a passing car.†   (source)
  • Cunyuan needed someone who was sturdier, to rein him in.†   (source)
  • As he rode by he looked at them and suddenly reined his horse, and came up to the path leading to the church.†   (source)
  • As they came up to the cattle still milling about on the road they reined up sharply.†   (source)
  • She grabs the reins to the animal.†   (source)
  • I tried reining them in, but they broke loose, night after night.†   (source)
  • She reined in our nature walks and settled down to business with a library card.†   (source)
  • "Princes walk upon the face of the earth and hold the reins, while peasants ride on horses," he says.†   (source)
  • You must take the reins of your own life.†   (source)
  • On the black metal driver's bench sat Brother Jeremiah, holding a set of reins in his gloved hands.†   (source)
  • So I'm going to keep a tight rein on things.†   (source)
  • The sewing machine was a gleaming, glossy black that reminded her of the landowner's horse back in Italy; sewing, Bella felt like she was holding on to the reins of a wild stallion.†   (source)
  • During the latter stages of the acclimatization period, he'd given us slightly freer rein to climb at our own pace-for instance, Hall sometimes allowed me to travel two hours or more out in front of the main group.†   (source)
  • She could sense life flowing around her and she had no grasp on its reins.†   (source)
  • The coachman had already reined in the horses.†   (source)
  • He would have forced me over the side of the bridge if I had not reached up and grabbed the reins.†   (source)
  • The boy took the reins and I began to walk in a crouch, my rifle in my hands.†   (source)
  • School's been on a month and you're riding easier in the reins, jogging along.†   (source)
  • Across the street was a primary school, and the children rushing out obliged the coachman to keep a tight hold on the reins so that the horse would not shy.†   (source)
  • IT WAS DAWN when the two horsemen reined in at the hilltop.†   (source)
  • We took our horses by the reins and walked them around to the garden.†   (source)
  • Oscar shook the reins, hollered gid'yap, and soon they were riding westward along the rolling plains to Paris.†   (source)
  • Now, however, seeing Phoebe rein in her love, she wondered if she'd done the right thing.†   (source)
  • He moved easily, but I sensed his tightly reined caution.†   (source)
  • In the years after Rivonia, the ANC's External Mission, formerly responsible for fund-raising, diplomacy, and establishing a military training program, took up the reins of the organization as a whole.†   (source)
  • Usually, Alex worked the register until noon, when he would hand over the reins to Joyce, who, like Roger, was the kind of employee who made running the store much less challenging than it could be.†   (source)
  • "Don't pull on the reins," the man on my right said.†   (source)
  • We pull the reins tighter.†   (source)
  • She also wanted more independence, yearned to be a grown-up, and resented her mother's efforts to rein her in.†   (source)
  • I gripped the reins, took a deep breath, and then squeezed my thighs together, clucking at Persephone to go.†   (source)
  • If the case settled now, his fees would be severely reined in.†   (source)
  • It's his way of keeping a tight rein on his passion for grand speeches.†   (source)
  • He hit the reins and the mules started moving.†   (source)
  • The black boy walked right up and gave Pete's arm a jerk toward the door, just like you'd jerk the reins on a plow horse to turn him.†   (source)
  • With a snap of the reins, the carriage jostles forward again as the old woman calls after us.†   (source)
  • It expanded in the sixties, and again, when Cal's father took the reins, in the early eighties.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Lana's nursing instincts won out and she took the reins of the conversation.†   (source)
  • It was canceled but I still had to show up, prep with the DA, Bill Mastine, and with Gail, who was now pregnant, and so handing most of the reins over to Mastine.†   (source)
  • Better rein it in.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he wants there to be close reins on this case.†   (source)
  • Stoddard gathered up his bridle rein, preparatory to moving on.†   (source)
  • Grace screamed and wrenched the reins.†   (source)
  • My battle rage surges, but I rein it in, fighting to wound, not kill.†   (source)
  • He took the reins from him, and simply continued to lead us forward, leaving his sheep behind, using the staff to help him keep his balance.†   (source)
  • Cooper sat astride a champing Appaloosa and held the reins of a glossy black Arabian.†   (source)
  • There, I saw Robert Duvall call John Wayne a one-eyed fat man, saw Big John yell out, "Fill yer hand, you sonofabitch!" and charge down across a wide, beautiful valley, reins in his teeth, shooting a Winchester from one hand and a Peacemaker from the other.†   (source)
  • With the spring of a deer, he leaped from his saddle, threw the reins of his bridle into the hands of his servant, and rushed into the thickest of the melee, with an iron grip seized two tall, brawny, athletic, savage-looking riflemen by the throat, keeping them at arm's length, alternating shaking and talking to them.†   (source)
  • At that moment the rider sat up, and shook the reins.†   (source)
  • Mortenson ordered Changazi to return to Skardu without him and took satisfaction in the shocked expression that flitted across his face before he swiftly reined it in.†   (source)
  • Holding the reins of the horses that pulled the caisson, and walking on both its sides, were Harlon's fellow Panthers: surviving members of the undefeated football team he'd played on; the boys who had enlisted en masse in January 1943.†   (source)
  • He holds both reins in one hand and with the other retrieves flagged darts from a leather pouch, flinging them into the earth.†   (source)
  • If he didn't rein it in, he would self-destruct.†   (source)
  • No. I'll rein it in if you answer the question.†   (source)
  • He was losing control, and he had to find a way to rein himself in.†   (source)
  • Then I got on the cart and my husband flicked the reins.†   (source)
  • A lot of my running time has been being spent in a certain garage, and I'm trying to rein it in.†   (source)
  • He flicked the reins and would have been away had I not grasped the horse's bridle.†   (source)
  • She was an enthusiast, reining in her enthusiasm whenever she felt it becoming too pronounced.†   (source)
  • But I rein in my thoughts.†   (source)
  • The crowd were boiling figures seen through steaming glass from inside a washing machine; and in the streets the mounted police detail stood looking on, their eyes noncommittal beneath the short polished visors of their caps, their bodies slanting forward, reins slackly alert, men and horses of flesh imitating men and horses of stone.†   (source)
  • When he tried to rein him in, the horse bolted, thrashing around like a hooked marlin.†   (source)
  • ELESIN My rein is loosened.†   (source)
  • Then, as if time was short, he walked to his horse, threw himself into the saddle, reined it around, and left without so much as a glance.†   (source)
  • So he handed over the reins of state to those with minds like his own.†   (source)
  • Seeing it for a moment without the reins of tension, she realized suddenly the extent of the unhappiness he had borne; but it's past now, she thought, it's over.†   (source)
  • He sighed, reined in his temper.†   (source)
  • His father held the reins of a pony.†   (source)
  • He walks to the inside of the road, guiding them with his right hand, holding the reins to the side of the yoke.†   (source)
  • But when he saw the Africans and the tattered black schooner anchored off shore, he slapped the reins hard.†   (source)
  • Were he to capitulate, rein Enrico in, and swear that his horse had been stung by a hornet or frightened by a train whistle, his fine and sentence might not be unbearable.†   (source)
  • As it passed the window I had a glimpse of my Aunt Harriet holding the reins.†   (source)
  • "Come here, mi rein, come here!" a broad-chested man calls to her from behind a toolshed.†   (source)
  • Harrison shook his head, tried to turn his horse; the reins slipped from his bloody hands, and the horse walked briskly down the hill.†   (source)
  • Since I turned over the reins of my company to my sons, I keep busy with hunting and fishing and speaking engagements.†   (source)
  • They cleared a rise, and on top ofa little knoll about a half-mile from the house, Lou reined Sue to a halt.†   (source)
  • Korie and I had to rein in our spending.†   (source)
  • This was the rope I'd rein him with.†   (source)
  • I rein myself in.†   (source)
  • The gray-clothed man's legs had speeded for a second, but he reined them down with his will and walked up the school pavement.†   (source)
  • Sometimes this short, straight-backed young girl hummed under her breath, or sang, while she hoed the corn or tugged on the reins when a refractory mule refused to budge.†   (source)
  • Here we see him and his queen give rein to their unbridled passion!†   (source)
  • He allowed me to stand between his knees and hold the reins, even though I could not see over the horse's too-busy tail where we were going.†   (source)
  • "Es kann kein Zweifel rein—" he resumed, then stopped abruptly.†   (source)
  • They came to the jinker with the grey standing in the shafts; she went to untie the reins.†   (source)
  • Preacher Henry dropped his reins, yelled, "Ho!" and Balaam stopped.†   (source)
  • Lord Rein-yes, he had been knighted, by me-whom I had not seen in centuries.†   (source)
  • The frightened animal had run off a hundred yards or so, stepped on the trailing reins, and stopped.†   (source)
  • But he just drove along humped over the reins.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich dropped his reins, leaned forward in Ms saddle, flung his arms around the horse's neck, and buried his face in its mane.†   (source)
  • "Reins up!" he called out.†   (source)
  • Sam Houston, fighting desperately to hold on to the reins of government, called a special session of the State Legislature,denouncing extremists both North and South and insisting that he had "not yet lost the hope that our rights can be maintained in the Union."†   (source)
  • For he was preparing to take up the reins again as if her sovereignty had been nothing, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • ...holding the horse reined back.   (source)
    reined = restrained
  • The reins, the halters, the blinkers, the degrading nosebags, were thrown on to the rubbish fire which was burning in the yard.   (source)
    reins = leather straps used with a bit to control a horse
  • How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck?   (source)
    rein = leather strap (that is used with a bit to control a horse or mule)
  • Get round with your hind legs under you the instant you feel the rein on your neck.   (source)
  • Dodge hopped up in front of her and took the reins while Bibwit climbed onto the other animal, and just as the sound of breaking water echoed off the cliff, they galloped into the woods.†   (source)
  • The assassin's confusion lasted only half a moment, but it was enough time for Dodge to reach out and grab the reins of the frightened spirit-dane as it hurtled past.†   (source)
  • Austin hopped in first and took the reins.†   (source)
  • Walt wrapped the camel's reins around his wrist.†   (source)
  • Caesar can't rein in the crowd again, not even when the buzzer sounds.†   (source)
  • I took the reins and maneuvered the chariot to the starting line.†   (source)
  • They grabbed for the reins, dodging the horses' flying hooves.†   (source)
  • Beetee gives the reins back to a very controlled Snow.†   (source)
  • Now she realized Percy was not making things better, and Annabeth wasn't around to rein him in.†   (source)
  • You were upset, but when you saw our concern, you reined it in, regained power over yourself.†   (source)
  • She pulled a knife and ran toward Jason's group while the bulky dude was reining in the horses.†   (source)
  • "Hold on tight," he said, snapping the reins.†   (source)
  • Thomas hopped onto the wagon, and Homer snapped the reins.†   (source)
  • She wound and unwound a strap of leather rein around a finger.†   (source)
  • "The Gates of the Moon," her uncle said as the party drew rein.†   (source)
  • I guess she dropped her tight rein somewhere.†   (source)
  • But until then, the only escape was to slacken the reins on my mind.†   (source)
  • I picked up them same reins that he had used on me.†   (source)
  • His crime was briefly holding the reins of Booth's horse in the alley behind Ford's Theatre.†   (source)
  • Without anyone at the reins, the pegasi panicked.†   (source)
  • Loosening the right rein, he turned his horse toward the road, then changed his mind and came back.†   (source)
  • He flicked the reins and urged the horses on.†   (source)
  • If she could have driven the horses herself, she would have taken the reins.†   (source)
  • "What have I done to deserve this honor, mi reins?" he said, smiling and walking toward her.†   (source)
  • I'd been tying a knot in my reins to make them more secure and didn't have a firm hold.†   (source)
  • The horses felt the reins go slack and went crazy, riding straight for the crowd.†   (source)
  • "No evasions, please," the Baron said, and the tightness of his voice exposed the rein on his anger.†   (source)
  • Ben retired as the artistic director of the Houston Ballet after twenty-seven years at the reins.†   (source)
  • Eragon grabbed Snowfire's reins and rode away from the camp, into the wilderness.†   (source)
  • On the other end of the reins were two horses, black as smoke, snarling and pawing at the sky.†   (source)
  • I had to rein him back down to a walk twice before he resigned himself to it.†   (source)
  • He reined up and wheeled the horse around.†   (source)
  • I put down my biscuit and reined in whatever part of my mind I'd left in 1976.†   (source)
  • Annabeth pulled the reins for the last turn.†   (source)
  • When last you ruled this place, I held you in strong rein.†   (source)
  • Stewart tried for the reins again, but Booth broke free and kicked the horse hard.†   (source)
  • The driver climbed back into his seat, then flicked the reins on the horses' backs.†   (source)
  • Eragon twisted Cadoc's reins in his hands, considering the implications of what Brom had said.†   (source)
  • A bone weary farmer eyed us suspiciously from where he sat, hunched over the reins.†   (source)
  • Curved over his own hands, holding the reins made him look the age he was.†   (source)
  • "Let's keep heading up the mountain," he said, handing Marcus Peg's reins.†   (source)
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