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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unhorse .
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Examples
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And even though I see you now "unhorsed," I shall not lose my first impression, because I know that by and by you will be just like that again -- looking and feeling as if you were fit to conquer the world.
Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
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Ryan was also to be unhorsed by earlier divorce accusations from his former wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, who accused the GOP standard-bearer of forcing her to go to S&M clubs and have sex in public.
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Only an excellent rider could have escaped being unhorsed, and as it was, Daylight was nastily near to it.
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At this juncture a rotten stirrup leather parted, and Daylight was all but unhorsed.
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How limiting in motion and how a knight unhorsed or knocked on his back would not be able to rise on his own.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists
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Elsinore, unhorsed by my encounters with the problems of the ultimate, carried off the field with a broken pate.
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Ryan was also to be unhorsed by earlier divorce accusations from his former wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, who accused the GOP standard-bearer of forcing her to go to S&M clubs and have sex in public.
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Ryan was also to be unhorsed by earlier divorce accusations from his former wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, who accused the GOP standard-bearer of forcing her to go to S&M clubs and have sex in public.
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Twain never quite specified why he favored Bacon, just remained eager, in his pugnacious, populist way, "to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed."
Who wrote Shakespeare? Author James Shapiro offers an answer.
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It does n't take much imagination to see the Ford Explorer, once America's cowboy sweetheart, as somehow now unhorsed, and part of a larger narrative of diminished expectations.
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