Mounting
['maʊntɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mount
(n.) The act of one that mounts.
(n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was the tortoise-shell lozenge-box, and Dorothea felt the color mounting to her cheeks. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mounting the broad steps, with brandished knife, the Negro made straight for a party of four men sitting at a table sipping the inevitable absinthe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The mounting flames had curled round the building, as it fell, and was destroyed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He did not wish to die; but he felt that he was going, for the fever was mounting higher and higher. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The deputy restrained the animal's impetuosity, and the principal ran to assist Mr. Winkle in mounting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She used to practice mounting, holding the reins, and sitting straight on an old saddle in a tree. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was called mounting, Mamma. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Entering with bated breath, quietly making all fast, shoelessly mounting the staircase, I sought the dormitory, and reached my couch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The rector, of his own accord, was mounting the stairs, and Mrs. Pryor summoned him to his niece's apartment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And then the red had the appearance of fading out of it and mounting up to Heaven, as we say that blood, guiltily shed, does. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nearer and nearer it approached, mounting louder and louder in volume. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Chief of these is the kick-starter, which enables the rider to start the engine of his machine without mounting it upon a stand or pedaling on the road. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was in a great state of mind at that, and mounting the colt, who stood by him through thick and thin, rushed to the castle to see which was left. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The host, however, was not pressing, so that I declined the invitation and, mounting my horse, rode on. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typed by Cedric