" And now the ladies take their seats; each jouster mounts his steed; From footmen and from horsemen flies fast the loaded reed.

Though 'tis to save his country's towers he mounts his fiery steed She has no cheerful word for him, no blessing and godspeed; And were there some light pretext to keep him at her side, In chains of love she'd bind him there, whate'er the land betide.

But General Smuts makes his eloquent appeal to the Russia which once held and broke Napoleon: "Liberty is like young wineit mounts to your head sometimes, and liberty, as a force in the world, requires organisation and discipline....

[Illustration: French Cavalrymen Bivouacked in the Streets of Paris, Sleeping on the Fodder of Their Mounts, Standing in the Background.]

Mark how it mounts, to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass: What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!

Anon, in order mounts a gorgeous show Of horsemen shadows winding to and fro; 1793.]

From the dark sylvan roofs the restless spire Inconstant glancing, mounts like springing fire.

Mounts, where the verdure leads, from stage to stage, And pastures on, as in the Patriarch's age: 1815.]

Thrown out in breadth, a large space doth contain: And gathering up in height, small from the ground, Still less and less it mounts: there sometime was A goodly tower uprear'd, that flower'd in fame

Three miles below the village, the river passes through a gorge and the road mounts to the lip of the overhanging cliffs.

There remain five tracts of this collection yet unmentioned; one, of artificial Hills, Mounts, or Barrows, in England; in reply to an interrogatory letter of E. D. whom the writers of the Biographia Britannica suppose to be, if rightly printed, W. D. or sir William Dugdale, one of Browne's correspondents.

mounts in every note.

When they were ready to start again Larry said: "So long as Whitefoot is tired and Horace is the lightest, don't you think he'd better ride him instead of Tom?" "Good idea," acquiesced Bill, and the shift in mounts was made, after which the boys headed for the ranch house.

Never sparing their mounts, they reached the Half-Moon just at dusk and their arrival threw the boys into great excitement.

That they need not tire their mounts by hard riding, Mr. Wilder had purposely set the start early and, with Snider on one side and Bill on the other, he led the cavalcade, setting the pace at a slow lope.

Indeed, he might have lost his principality entirelyor, at least, his subjects; for, as I later had occasion to observe, the frequency with which a dethroned reason mounts a throne and rules a world is such that self-crowned royalty receives but scant homage from the less elated members of the court.

With wrought iron mounts and falling flap, on carved stand.

Danger still clings in fond embrace to Fame, Mounts on her wing, and flies where'er she flees.

The mounts of the day were the pick of over five thousand cow-horses, and corn-fed for winter use, in the pink of condition and as impatient for the coming fray as their riders.

Once clear of the grove, the beaters halted, maintaining their line, while from either end the horse wranglers were distributing to them their mounts.

Those of us who had mounts in good fix scoured back and gathered in our packs and all the Indian and stolen horses that were unwounded.

They had barely time to tie their mounts outside and enter the pen, when four of us slipped in behind them and changed the programme a trifle.

When we halted at noon that day to change our mounts, we sighted to the northward some seven miles distant an outfit similar to our own.

We stretched ropes from the wagon wheels, and in a few moments' time were busy hobbling our mounts.

Thus at Tiskins, for example, Lord Bathurst should have raised two or three mounts, because his situation is all plain, and nothing can please without variety.