What is "dismounting"

Usage examples of "dismounting".

But Burbon streight dismounting from his steed,Vnto her ran with greedie great desyre,And catching her fast by her ragged weed,Would haue embraced her with hart entyre.

While the new Lord Kalvan had sometimes felt as if he were riding a runaway horse, he'd known there was no dismounting in mid-journey.

A fat, gray-haired woman was dismounting from one of the litter, carrying a wailing bundle as delicately as if it had been a basket of spiderwebs.

Deep into the watery lowland they fared, at times dismounting and wading, giving the horses respite.

But at last they came to the jumbled slope at the base of the shield wall, and dismounting and leading their ponies, up the rubble they went, with Fists of Rakka running in pursuit, and a battle between armies on the great slope aft, and Modru's vast Swarm churning across the basin behind.

Which when that warriour heard, dismounting straictFrom his tall steed, he rusht into the thicke,And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraictOf death and labour lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke,In whose white alabaster brest did stickeA cruell knife, that made a griesly wound,From which forth gusht a streme of gorebloud thick,That all her goodly garments staind around,And into a deepe sanguine dide the grassie ground.

There they dismounting, drew their weapons boldAnd stoutly came vnto the Castle gate.

But by no meanes my way I would forslow,For ought that euer she could doe or say,But from my lofty steede dismounting low,Past forth on foote, beholding all the wayThe goodly workes, and stones of rich assay,Cast into sundry shapes by wondrous skill,That like on earth no where I recken may:And vnderneath, the riuer rolling stillWith murmure soft, that seem'd to serue the workmans will.

Much was he moued with her piteous plight,And low dismounting from his loftie steede,Gan to recomfort her all that he might,Seeking to driue away deepe rooted dreede,With hope of helpe in that her greatest neede.

Arriuing there, as did by chaunce befall,He found the gate wyde ope, and in he rode,Ne stayd, till that he came into the hall:Where soft dismounting like a weary lode,Vpon the ground with feeble feete he trode,As he vnable were for very needeTo moue one foote, but there must make abode.

He studied the cottage for a long moment before dismounting and striding toward the front door.

Two battalions at least, advancing by companies and dismounting to volley.

Instead they were dismounting and going to cover behind dead dogs or rocks or olive trees and bushes, trying to return fire.

Skinners were dismounting to loot the hundreds of Squadron corpses and to slit throats.

Warrior after warrior snapped the sheath of his sword across his knee, and more were dismounting as they reached the second Battle, servants leading strings of dogs off to the flanks and rear.