Although it is against regulations to dismount an enlisted man, I have no hesitancy in such a case of urgent necessity as this is, in telling you that you may have any horse you may wish.

The latter landed, set fire to the buildings, blew up the magazine, dismounted the guns, and did all the other damage to the place that could be accomplished in the course of a short visit.

Acting upon a premonition, Dan dismounted a short distance from Rogers's house and ran to the door.

Let him enjoy his fame for me, nor let me hint a whisper that shall dismount Bellerophon.

When they had come to a bye place, they both dismounted their respective horses, and fell to beating me with great violence.

The bulk of the Indians and their camp were hidden by a bend of the river, and Reno, instead of charging round the bend and into the Indian camp, halted and dismounted his command to fight on foot.

Reflecting on these difficulties, I had decided to seek some retired spot where I could dismount the effigies, cover them with the tarpaulin that was rolled up in the barrow and take a rest, when once more circumstances befriended me.

"Corporal Jackson, dismount a guard of six men," rang the captain's voice, interrupting him.

Close to Spital Square I found a quiet corner where I quickly dismounted the guys, covered them with the tarpaulin and, urged by a new anxiety from the rapidly-growing density of the fog, groped my way into Norton Folgate.

The second day of our journey I had raised his spirits to such a height, that he wantonly picked a quarrel with the muleteer, and gave him two or three slight cuts with his sabre, which so much provoked the honest driver, that, being a stout robust man, he soon dismounted my hero, and would actually have sent him to the shades below, but for my interference.

Despite growing and painful infirmities (stone, ague, dropsy), Bodley never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.

She runs into the piazza, and sees dismounting a knight who carries Agnes in his arms pale and fainting.

"Am I to dismount the lady at the Inn?" "Aye; go down the path before me;" and Geoffrey turned toward Betty, but again the mischievous maid had been too quick for him, and he beheld her already mounted on one of the coach horses, where she sat demurely and at ease awaiting him.

alight ("to get down from," alighted alighted "to dismount") light ("to ignite," lighted lighted[70] "to shed light on") light ("to settle down as lighted or lit lighted or lit a bird from flight," or "to come upon by chance") "Foundations," pp.78-81, 91-93.

Sigismund, as well as most of the men of the party, had dismounted a little previously, with a view to excite warmth by exercise.

His orders were addressed to no deaf ears; by a single charge they routed the entire cavalry, dismounted great numbers, and killed with their javelins both the riders and the horses.

The same guns are employed for dismounting the defender's pieces, which he covers as much as possible behind the parapet.

Something told me to take this," responded Kurt, as he dismounted the rifle.

He then promptly mounted, and hastened to the front, where, taking command of his cavalry, he formed it in front of the advancing enemy, and with artillery and dismounted sharp-shooters, offered every possible impediment to their advance.

At the base of the hills Captain Dammers dismounted 'A' squadron, which charged on the left, and the squadron fought their way to the top of the ridge on foot.

"They went back and dismounted about ten steps from the door.

And trampling footsteps through the copses sound, And Izdubar, his hand placed on his sword, Loud cries: "Who cometh o'er mine Erech's sward?" An armèd warrior before him springs; The King, dismounted, his bright weapon swings.

Or I'll dismount thee from thy radiant coach, And make thee poor[102] Cutchy here on earth.

Thus, to their fame, when finish'd was the fight, The victors from their lofty steeds alight: Like them dismounted all the warlike train, And two by two proceeded o'er the plain, Till to the fair assembly they advanced, Who near the secret arbour sung and danced.

There were six hangars of canvas, each containing an aeroplane and serving as a dormitory; and for each aeroplane a carriage and a motorfor sometimes aeroplanes are wounded and have to travel by road; it takes ninety minutes to dismount an aeroplane.