Sometimes the brave have bent the head

For Cordova rode with legs braced, keeping a tight pull that bent the head of Alcatraz down.

Being fair behind and within arm's reach of his man, he seized him by the scalp-lock, bent the head backward across his knee-but ,faugh

Every one present, the old woman included, bent the head at these words, and Cuthbert felt by some instinct that his life was now safe.