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Definition of Dismounting
1. dismount [v] - See also: dismount
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dismounting
Literary usage of Dismounting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"They had to instruct them in mounting and dismounting, hurling spears on horseback,
charging, wheeling, leaping walls and ditches, and riding up and down ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"One shell fell on deck, dismounting the pivot gun. The "Almirante Condell " was
nearly sunk by her sister gunboat. On the '• Magellanes " 40 men were killed ..."
3. The Journals of Washington Irving (Hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"As we approached it we see a group of ladies and gent[lemen] entering the yard
on horseback and dismounting. The widow who owns it has a large family. ..."
4. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"forward, and dismounting in haste, and disrobing with precipitation, rushed down
the bank, and threw themselves into the stream. ..."
5. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"Dismounting, he essayed to adjust the trace ; but ere he had fairly commenced
the task, the mule, a singularly refractory animal, snorted wildly, ..."
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