tall in the saddle

No career advancement, but the guy sat tall in the saddle.

"They like to stand tall in the saddle for archery."

He had to be, because he suddenly felt tall in the saddle and ready to take on the world.

"Tall in the saddle" - that's one of many things that being a Texan is all about.

Breaca sat tall in the saddle, held erect by anger.

Mr. Reagan rode on, a bit taller in the saddle.

Like so many heroic figures, he looked a lot taller in the saddle than he did on the ground.

Every time he tries to stand tall in the saddle he loses his balance.

He rode easily, sitting tall in the saddle.

He was tall in the saddle, a grim faced man dressed all in black.

I can't just sit tall in the saddle and ride right into town with my six-guns blazing."

I sat tall in the saddle, Winchester in the scabbard, my mind open and alert.

You're not the 'tall in the saddle' cowboy.

And now the foremost rider could be seen clearly, very tall in the saddle, bare-headed, fair as flax.

Tall in the saddle, with her shoulders squarely set, there was no questioning that she was about grim business.

The wizard-prince seemed to grow taller in the saddle, glaring down at Varatesh like an angry god.

The cowboy riding tall in the saddle and holding the reins for a little girl on her pony could have been Shane.

And from out of the war band emerged a rider: broad shouldered and tall in the saddle.

He is riding tall in the saddle until a posse of cut-rate competitors offer to punch cows at far lower prices.

But he emerged from the shooting unbowed, sitting taller in the saddle than ever in the American estimation.

He had the handsome weather-beaten face of a cowboy; Robert Mitchum tall in the saddle.

You sit tall in the saddle, and Chrysler has not camouflaged the Durango's origins as a truck.

He was a handsome man, stiff-backed and tall in the saddle, exuding an air of confidence and command.

"Tall in the Saddle"

"He died with his boots on", his son Christopher Buckley said, "after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle."