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The new Water Carrier-Emperor was said to have ridden into Kabul on a saddleless horse, guiding the beast by knee pressure, whooping triumphantly, and ambidextrously brandishing two rifles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marino Marini's entry was Cavaliere, a horse and rider that appeared to have just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of how she had ridden twenty leagues on a saddleless Arab horse, to fetch the surgeon of the Spahis to a Bedouin perishing in the desert of shot-wounds.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

"Sissy—Bembridge—you!" cried the foremost, springing from his saddleless mount.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Bare-skinned warriors on bridleless, saddleless ponies, a small, finely-braided lariat attached to the horse's jaw, sit like graven images upon their favorite steeds.

From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill