Leaving the body to lie where it was, he placed the smoking pistol in a holster at his saddlebow-he had decided that he was mounted-and proceeded up the street.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
Des Barres put him over his saddlebow; then took his prisoners into camp.
"The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay"
Maurice Hewlett
When his leg was on the saddlebow Lord Agramunt plunged a lance into his thigh, and it came out the other side.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba