The horses tremble, one of them stumbles and falls, the traces break, and down goes the carriage.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
She sets her foot upon a man's hand, leaps, stumbles on his body to a fall: Christian dead lies under her embrace.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
In the daytime-for this supernatural effect is felt in broad day as well as at night-the horse more frequently falls or stumbles, as if checked by an invisible force in the midst of his career.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies