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I've steeplechased, raced, and 'run horses', but I think the most dashing of all Was the ride when the old fellow saved me from Gilbert, O'Maley and Hall!

From Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

Where before life had glided, now it steeplechased, taking its days bull-headed, and Paul grew to the age of four as a bamboo grows, in leaps.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

My blood steeplechased in my veins as I waited for him to deal me the hand that might decide my fate.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William