When the Xanthians heard the military shout, and saw the flame mount, they concluded there would be no mercy.

In a rare flush of pride, Rudolph wheeled his stubborn mount and bullied him down the bank.

An heape of earth he hoorded up on hie, Enclosing it with banks on everie side, And thereupon did raise full busily A little mount, of greene turffs edifide*; 660

Red Perris, at least, was such a man, and indeed he spent many an hour dreaming of some happy day when he should find beneath him a mount with speed like an eagle, soul of a lion, and the gentle, trusting heart of a child.

After we had left the village, he expressed a wish to change mounts with Marmaduke, and certainly if he had been a horsebreaker he could not have taken more pains with the animal.

Some the gall'd ropes with dauby marline bind, Or sear-cloth masts with strong tarpaulin coats: To try new shrouds one mounts into the wind, And one below their ease or stiffness notes.

With such a thought to urge them, Marianne's hired men caught their fastest mounts and saddled like lightning.

Where you going, Lee?" Haines turned from his task of saddling his mount.

It not only secured a mount for the four, but, what was equally and perhaps, in view of unforeseen contingencies, more important disguises for the two prisoners.

The air was a perfect calm, and the very grunt of the racing horses was faintly audible and the cursing of the men as they urged their mounts forward.

He sat beside his friend and watched the fever mount in him till he was wildly delirious.

But in spite of the dinner bell, Hervey made for the corrals instead of the house, roped and saddled the fastest pony in his string, jogged out to the eastern trail, and then sent his mount at a run into the evening haze.

Where the earth was taken away to form this mount, there are two lakes corresponding with each other, supplied by a small river, and well stored with fish; and the passages of the water are grated in such a manner that the fish cannot escape.

Not until he had brought his mount to a halt in front of the hotel and swung down to the ground did either he or his horse become distinctly visible.

Off to the side and well ahead, spurring his mount to top effort, came Red Perris, who must have marked the chase with his glass.

Racey topped his mount, but as the horse started he held him up.

Evidently many other youths under military age had been inspired with the same idea, for there was a long line outside the door, and as we stood and waited, we examined with interest the mounts of the English cavalry regiment lined up in the street awaiting their riders.

" Jacopo raised his form to such an altitude as one might fancy to express the mounting of a liberated spirit.

I'd like to know how I got here, and where my hoss is, and who belongs to this one?" He eyed the mount with disfavour.

At his touch the drossy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dustthe finer and more ethereal part mounts with the winged spirit to watch over our latest memory and protect our bones from insult.

His look was all for her horse, and a new and unreasonable spurt of anger was in his heart Through her unbounded ignorance she had needlessly fatigued her mount, having no knowledge of the ways one employs to save his horse.

Upon learning that France had lost a battle on French soil, the young duke felt the blood mount to his face, giving him a horrible feeling of suffocation.

To my surprise, however, on entering, I discovered Thorndyke himself just finishing the mounting of a microscopical specimen.

May mountains first fall down beneath their valleys, And fire no more mount upwards, when I suffer An act in nature so preposterous; I must o'ercome in this, in all things else

He could always find young men to hunt for him, if he furnished the mounts, and, of course, the more wives he had, the more robes and furs they would tan for him.