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They had already mounted fifteen, and were arriving at a landing-place.
The child alone appeared mounted on the gallery, behind the whirlwinds of white steam, filled with delight and grinning broadly in the joy of unchaining this hurricane.
The mob crossed the Joiselle road, went a short distance up the Cron road and then mounted towards Cougny.
A flame mounted to his cheeks, a nervous spasm drew his mouth, from which flowed a thin streak of black saliva.
On the forecastle was mounted the latest model breech-loading cannon, very heavy of barrel and narrow of bore, a weapon that would figure in the Universal Exhibition of 1867.
This reaction mounted upward from the bowels of the ship, from the quarters of the bunker hands to the messroom of the general staff; and for certain, if it hadn't been for Commander Farragut's characteristic stubbornness, the frigate would ultimately have put back to that cape in the south.
"But," I went on, "once these parts were manufactured, didn't they have to be mounted and adjusted?"
Carried away by its momentum, the ship sometimes mounted on top of these tracts of ice and crushed them with its weight, or at other times, when cooped up beneath the ice fields, it split them with simple pitching movements, creating wide punctures.
She recalled the prize days, when she mounted the platform to receive her little crowns, with her hair in long plaits.
The drum beat, the howitzer thundered, and the gentlemen one by one mounted the platform, where they sat down in red utrecht velvet arm-chairs that had been lent by Madame Tuvache.
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
She mounted to the second floor of the house, as pale as though she were going to her death.
(From the Bishop's address, delivered in the Chapel of Saint Clement)On the third of September, at ten o'clock in the evening, a mounted constable aroused the whole of Verrieres by galloping up the main street; he brought the news that His Majesty the King of -- was coming the following Sunday, and it was now Tuesday.
He mounted his horse again, and in a few minutes was at Bray-le-Haut, which stands on the summit of an imposing hill.
He mounted his horse, rode a league, after which, coming upon a wood, with no one to see him enter it, he hid himself there.
He mounted his horse and made at a leisurely pace for the most solitary recesses of one of the forests near Paris.
M. le Chevalier de La Vernaye was mounted upon the finest horse in Alsace, which had cost him six thousand francs.
The passage of a stranger, with an appearance of somewhat doubtful character, and mounted on an animal which, although unfurnished with any of the ordinary trappings of war, partook largely of the bold and upright carriage that distinguished his rider, gave rise to many surmises among the gazing inmates of the different habitations; and in some instances, where conscience was more than ordinarily awake, to no little alarm.
The startled woman half closed her door again in affright, as she saw, by the glare of a large wood fire, a mounted man so unexpectedly near its threshold; and an expression of terror mingled with her natural curiosity, as she required his pleasure.
He bowed to the whole party, and without taking any notice of the peddler, other than by simply thanking him for his attentions, mounted his horse, and, riding steadily and gracefully through the little gate, was soon lost behind the hill which sheltered the valley to the northward.
With the exception of the sentinels left to guard Captain Wharton, the dragoons mounted, and marched out to meet their comrades.
The sufferings of the line of the American army were great beyond example; but possessing the power, and feeling themselves engaged in a cause which justified severity, the cavalry officers were vigilant in providing for their wants, and the horse were well mounted, well fed, and consequently eminently effective.
"Captain Wharton!" exclaimed the astonished commander of the English troops, "dressed in mohair, and mounted on a rebel dragoon horse!
The steed I mounted carried me, greatly against my will, I acknowledge, into the very center of Dunwoodie's men.""And you were again captured," continued the father, casting a fearful glance on the armed attendants who had entered the room.
Mason, finding, by the breathing of the captain, that his own good night would be unheard, hastened to pay his respects to the ladies - after which he mounted and followed the troop at the top of his horse's speed.
The dialogue we have related established a perfect truce between the surgeon and his comrade; and the former having paid a visit to Singleton, they took their leave of the ladies, and mounted; the former to visit the wounded at the encampment, and the latter to rejoin his troop.
The latter were quietly eating, with saddles on their backs and bridles thrown on their necks, ready to be bitted and mounted at the shortest warning.
"And you will not pay us, then, Captain Lawton?" said the Skinner, trembling in every joint, for just then he saw a party of mounted dragoons silently encircling the whole party.
Do not trust yourself in the skirts of any wood, unless in company and mounted."
Roanoke had been as much benefited by a few days' rest as his master; and Lawton ardently wished, as he curbed his gallant steed, on passing the well-remembered rocks, that his treacherous enemy stood before him, mounted and armed as himself.
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