The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

What a rate have I gone on at, curvetting and frisking it away, two up and two down for four volumes together, without looking once behind, or even on one side of me, to see whom I trod upon! -- I'll tread upon no one -- -- -quoth I to myself when I mounted -- -- -- I'll take a good rattling gallop; but I'll not hurt the poorest jackass upon the road.

-- -- -So off I set -- -- -up one lane -- -- -- down another, through this turnpike -- -- -over that, as if the arch-jockey of jockeys had got behind me.