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“A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.”

Whole Bigs Paper Europe Innovation Bunch Shock Technological Asian Silk Gunpowder Silk Road Stirrups

Author:Charles C. Mann

“He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.”

Speak Feet Speak The Truth Stirrups

Author:Mark Shields

“When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”

Moving Feet Bed Excitement Barns Stirrups

Author:Ann Romney

“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”

People Men May Certain Fall Fire Feet He Man Ready Horse Shoes Stealing Entrepreneurship Paris Cracks Blank Tails Coats Skulls Whips Pistols Treacherous Buckles Wrenches Stirrups

Book:The Atheist's Mass

Source: The Atheist's Mass

“[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.”

Years Made Known Source Europe Improvement Cavalry Stirrups

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.”

Looks Guy Involved Exercise Legs Ridiculous Plot Pilates Stirrups

Author:John Stamos

“Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.”

Men Made Said Stills House Left Sound Silence Gone Heard Feet Stones Awake Iron One Man Listeners Stirrups

Author:Walter de La Mare

“A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.”

Hands Three Feet Notes Rings Iron Metals Boots Toes Old Time Bare Feet Ostriches Stirrups

Author:Luis Marden

“Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.”

Firsts Blind Terror Flying Riders Frenzy Kneeling Whipping Stirrups

Book:War Horse

Source: War Horse

“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.”

Found Mercy Stirrups

Author:William Camden