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She would have cantered on again, but he made her walk for, perhaps, another five minutes, until they were come to a stretch of common he knew well.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette

It is a very cold day, you have cantered your two miles, and now you are wiping your brows, as if you had run the distance in half the time on foot.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 by Various

Six months and more have cantered by: And, Winter past, we're out again— We've left the fat and weatherwise To keep their coops and reeking sties.

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Change his costume a bit, and substitute a slouch hat for his flat-topped lancer's cap, and he might have cantered bodily out of one of Remington's canvases.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Any other day Hereward would have cantered down it with merely a tightened rein.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles