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  • He let go the reins of command.   (source)
    reins = means of control
  • 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 held back on the reins and the horse stopped.   (source)
    reins = straps used to control a horse
  • 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
  • If I let go I'd fall, but I'd have a precious moment to reach for the flapping reins or try to yank my calf from the stirrup.†   (source)
  • Alfonso held the reins and Miguel the lantern.†   (source)
  • The animals are so well trained, no one even needs to guide their reins.†   (source)
  • When we reached the entrance of the castle, I pulled back on my "reins" and brought my "steed" to a halt.†   (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)
  • H9 The driver pulled on his reins to stop the horses.†   (source)
  • You've got the reins, but don't make a move without talking to me.†   (source)
  • He pulled Buckbeak's rope back over his neck and tied it to the other side of his collar like reins.†   (source)
  • He tried to keep a rein on this but his heart was not in it.†   (source)
  • She reins in her panic.†   (source)
  • But now it has to be reined in.†   (source)
  • "Good," Brullo said, reining his horse and surveying whoever had first returned.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She stood in back of the chariot with Leo and Jason, while the bald guy, Butch, handled the reins, and the blond girl, Annabeth, adjusted a bronze navigation device.†   (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)
  • Chuck Parson was pretty horrible in all those years before he'd been reined in.†   (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)
  • Holly reined in the throttle and descended to eighty metres.†   (source)
  • A lull in the action, a brief reprieve before old man winter takes up the reins again.†   (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)
  • Yet most of the Mexican girls weren't cholas; their families still had strong reins on many of them.†   (source)
  • I stepped toward the mare and caught her reins as though to remount.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I tried reining them in, but they broke loose, night after night.†   (source)
  • His expression was smooth, the anger reined in.†   (source)
  • She grabs the reins to the animal.†   (source)
  • "Princes walk upon the face of the earth and hold the reins, while peasants ride on horses," he says.†   (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)
  • She reined in our nature walks and settled down to business with a library card.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Tata grabbed the reins and soothed the horse while Marcus climbed on.†   (source)
  • As they came up to the cattle still milling about on the road they reined up sharply.†   (source)
  • Cunyuan needed someone who was sturdier, to rein him in.†   (source)
  • The boy took the reins and I began to walk in a crouch, my rifle in my hands.†   (source)
  • Booth pulled himself up onto the black-legged bay mare with a white star on her forehead and grabbed the reins.†   (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)
  • He would have forced me over the side of the bridge if I had not reached up and grabbed the reins.†   (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)
  • She could sense life flowing around her and she had no grasp on its reins.†   (source)
  • So I'm going to keep a tight rein on things.†   (source)
  • He moved easily, but I sensed his tightly reined caution.†   (source)
  • We took our horses by the reins and walked them around to the garden.†   (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)
  • Now, however, seeing Phoebe rein in her love, she wondered if she'd done the right thing.†   (source)
  • School's been on a month and you're riding easier in the reins, jogging along.†   (source)
  • Grace screamed and wrenched the reins.†   (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)
  • "Don't pull on the reins," the man on my right said.†   (source)
  • He hit the reins and the mules started moving.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she reined Horse, for standing in the dimness beyond was the strangest trio she had ever seen.†   (source)
  • The coachman had already reined in the horses.†   (source)
  • Most of the sweating parents never graduated from high school, much less attended college, and are certainly not going to be reined in at the only graduation many will ever attend by some distant, bourgeois blacks.†   (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)
  • The saddle was on Gray Stoddard's horse; the bit in his mouth; he was tied by the reins to his stall ring.†   (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)
  • Thankfully, Lana's nursing instincts won out and she took the reins of the conversation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It expanded in the sixties, and again, when Cal's father took the reins, in the early eighties.†   (source)
  • Nolan was holding the reins, laughing with Mr. Morrow, Miss Boon, and two Sixth Years.†   (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)
  • With a snap of the reins, the carriage jostles forward again as the old woman calls after us.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he wants there to be close reins on this case.†   (source)
  • Seth had the reins, I was holding on for dear life, but we rode bareback all the time and we knew what we were doing.†   (source)
  • It's his way of keeping a tight rein on his passion for grand speeches.†   (source)
  • But I rein in my thoughts.†   (source)
  • At that moment the rider sat up, and shook the reins.†   (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)
  • He flicked the reins and would have been away had I not grasped the horse's bridle.†   (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 was losing control, and he had to find a way to rein himself in.†   (source)
  • I swallowed and tried to rein in the mutant pterodactyls having a roller derby in my stomach as I dared to think about a future for the two of us.†   (source)
  • He sighed, reined in his temper.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • My battle rage surges, but I rein it in, fighting to wound, not kill.†   (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)
  • She was an enthusiast, reining in her enthusiasm whenever she felt it becoming too pronounced.†   (source)
  • But when he saw the Africans and the tattered black schooner anchored off shore, he slapped the reins hard.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When he tried to rein him in, the horse bolted, thrashing around like a hooked marlin.†   (source)
  • "Come here, mi rein, come here!" a broad-chested man calls to her from behind a toolshed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then I got on the cart and my husband flicked the reins.†   (source)
  • If he didn't rein it in, he would self-destruct.†   (source)
  • ELESIN My rein is loosened.†   (source)
  • Oscar shook the reins, hollered gid'yap, and soon they were riding westward along the rolling plains to Paris.†   (source)
  • As it passed the window I had a glimpse of my Aunt Harriet holding 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)
  • 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)
  • Since I turned over the reins of my company to my sons, I keep busy with hunting and fishing and speaking engagements.†   (source)
  • This was the rope I'd rein him with.†   (source)
  • I rein myself in.†   (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)
  • Here we see him and his queen give rein to their unbridled passion!†   (source)
  • So he handed over the reins of state to those with minds like his own.†   (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)
  • They came to the jinker with the grey standing in the shafts; she went to untie the reins.†   (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)
  • He drew rein and turned to look in that direction.†   (source)
  • "Es kann kein Zweifel rein—" he resumed, then stopped abruptly.†   (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)
  • Preacher Henry dropped his reins, yelled, "Ho!" and Balaam stopped.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Beetee gives the reins back to a very controlled Snow.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Reining in my surprise, I decided the best thing to do was play along.†   (source)
  • I picked up them same reins that he had used on me.†   (source)
  • He led the horse down the alley by the reins to the back door of 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 began to "gallop" again, holding my invisible reins as I pretended to ride forward.†   (source)
  • The guards immediately reined in their Feldunost, faces hard.†   (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)
  • His crime was briefly holding the reins of Booth's horse in the alley behind Ford's Theatre.†   (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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