Dismounting

Examples

• The attack was now renewed, the cavalry dismounting and charging as infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here another battle ensued, our men dismounting and fighting on foot, in which the Confederates were again routed and driven in great disorder. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The party of horsemen came up to the fence, and, with mingled shouts and oaths, were dismounting, to prepare to follow them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He was startled by the loud and dissonant voice of a man who was apparently dismounting at the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dismounting, I laid Powell upon the ground, but the most painstaking examination failed to reveal the faintest spark of life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I'll see,' said Wicks, dismounting leisurely from his stool. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The crowds would generally swarm around him, and thus give me an opportunity of quietly dismounting and getting into the house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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