dismounting

Graham knew, and, once, he caught her dismounting from the Fawn at the hitching rails.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

I always have time to opperate the bolt after dismounting from a horse for a shot, or getting out of the vehicle.

You Always Hurt the Gun You Love 2008

She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Hasan, dismounting from the steed, stood at the cavern-mouth pondering the issue of his case and unknowing what might befal him.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When Badr Basim saw this, he rejoiced with exceeding joy, for he was well-nigh dead of hunger and thirst, and dismounting from the plank, would have gone up the beach to the city; but there came down to him mules and asses and horses, in number as the see sends and fell to striking at him and staying him from landing.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

That Paula sometimes went for long solitary rides, Graham knew, and, once, he caught her dismounting from the Fawn at the hitching rails.

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

A little further on he came to a small brown house beside a wood, and, again dismounting, he knocked at the door.

Folk Tales From Many Lands 1910

The old Mongol carried a scar as a result of the episode, for in dismounting quickly, his gun had struck his head and made a deep gash.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

No amount of world-wide practice in the getting in and out of strange vehicles is any help to the tortuous process necessary for mounting and dismounting from a Larut gharrie.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

Another thing that prevented my dismounting was the apparently utter impossibility, on such a steep and narrow path, of mounting again.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

His dismounting was the signal for another break away of at least half of those fronting him, and the mounted infantry, in open order, scaled the hill with fixed bayonets against the remainder.

History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government Great Britain. War Office 1876

The technique—known as “dismounting”—was clever.

A Biblical Mystery at Oxford Ariel Sabar 2020