A little further conversation convinced him that Slingsby was as fit for that as for any thing else, and in a day or two he was seen swaying the rod of empire in the very school-house where he had often been Horsed in the days of his boyhood.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
One other point to be mentioned is that many of the full-page Venetian illustrations, both in quartos and folios, have quasi-architectural borders to them, the footpiece being sometimes filled with children riding griffins or other grotesques, while school-books were often made more attractive to young readers by a border in which a master is flogging a boy duly Horsed for the purpose on the back of a schoolfellow.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
At Blackmore we found a well-Horsed trap, and through woods and long country lanes drove to Ingatestone, and as fast as the train could travel got back to civilisation.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy