Falcon pricked his ears, and Champed his bit cheerily, as he mended his pace without warning of spur.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
Then the Superintendent's horse flung up its head; its teeth Champed upon the bit; the man sat bolt upright, and the light of the hurricane lamp fell full upon the face of Hardcastle the squatter.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
"Give him black Hannibal, Jous," Christina had said to her groom; and when the Dutch envoy, Van Beunigen, came out to join the hunting-party, too much flattered by the invitation to remember that he was a poor horseman, Jous, the groom, held black Hannibal in unsteady check, while the big horse Champed and fretted, and the hunting-party awaited the new member.
"Historic Girls"
E. S. Brooks