Turning round to see if there was any available help, the minister was astonished to find close to his side a horseman in a dark dress, mounted on a white horse.
The servant mounted a horse and away he rode with much diligence.
I mounted it, and vaguely expected the odors of Araby a gain.
Directly the order was given, the remainder of the ship's company mounted the rigging, and saluted them with three cheers.
It was, indeed, a struggle for life; the rage of each had mounted to delirium.
Courtenay and his party rushed into the cabin, mounted the table, and were on deck before the smoke had cleared away: and the Frenchmen, who had not had time to descend the rigging, were at their mercy.
A discharge of langrage from one of the two long brass guns, mountedon her prow, flew amongst the boats, without taking effect.
My son is locked up in his room, and a trustworthy servant whom he cannot corrupt has mounted guard over him.
That she possessed the power of doing mischief was evident, as a three-pounder gun was seen mounted on a sort of raised deck in her bow.
The gun was mounted on the forecastle, and charged with a shell.
In case of such an occurrence, the gun mounted on the bow was reloaded, ready to send a shot after her.
She was cruising one day close inshore, when her commander observed a fort which mounted six guns, but could see no gunners to fight them.
One of the first objects which had caught the eyes of the naval officer was the English cavalry already mounted and drawn up in front of their camps.
The next time they grounded, the Arabs seemed to have discovered that they were within range of the eight guns mounted on the fort, as well indeed as the muskets of the large party sent out along the bank.
He went back to the house as softly as possible, and brought out a lantern, which was silver-mounted and of cut glass.
And while Jane mounted the rickety back-stairs, she turned to the door to meet two or three women with shawls pinned about their heads.
Rising from a brief and troubled rest at dawn, he mounted his horse to ride back to the {274} breach in the falling walls.
In the midst of the deafening noise made by his drummers mounted on three hundred camels, an attack was made upon all parts of the wall at once.
My knights came to me, all wounded as they were, and we drove the {233} Saracens from among the engines, and back towards a great body of mounted Turks.
When we got to the middle of the stream, we touched ground and our horses found footing; and on the other bank of the stream were full three hundred Saracens, all mounted on their horses.
The King had been unhorsed and was fighting desperately on foot when "a Turk advanced towards him mounted on a prancing steed.
Afterwards the king mounted his horse, and we all likewise, and we went and encamped before Damietta.
After these things he caused me to be mountedon a palfrey and to ride by his side.
It was already late at night, but the mounted mail carrier had not reached the Dayspring mine, and Allonby, who was impatiently waiting news of certain supplies and plant, had insisted on Brooke sitting up with him.
Mounted multitudes of Turks pushed forward; the janissaries, regular and irregular, were disposed behind them, around the tents of Hussein.
Pan Michael mounted his horse and watched over the march.
She helped to lead out the beasts and attach them to the carriage; at last, though bareheaded, shemounted the driver's seat before the entrance, where two men were waiting and already dressed for the road.
Basia and Zagloba mounted led palfreys; and Basia gave command to put the Tartar in the carriage and drive carefully.
Pan Myslishevski went out this time against the vizir with infantry and a division of mounted volunteers.
The young knight did not hesitate; he mounted his horse and rode away.
Thus honoring the memory of the bowman, they mounted the wall.
She would have mounted her pony assuredly, were it not that, sitting near Eva, she could talk with her and terrify her.
Pan Michael remained at the quarters of the starosta till nightfall, when he mounted his horse and was escaping in secret with his servant to the cloister, wishing to be with his wife as soon as possible.
That deep glow, sudden and fiery, againmounted his face, until it covered forehead and temples.
Alison had met Atkins at the foot of the stairs leading to their apartments, but he had not mounted them.
All through its waves there was a sparkle and a glitter as if the old Niebelungen horde had mounted up from those deep recesses, making those waters one tide of liquid gold, that overflowed even the environing shores.
At the last words, a deep flush mounted to Jane's forehead, but she did not look up.
I could not believe that a disaster so dire should not befall us, and I suffered a mounting misery till one day itmounted to frenzy.
Apparently my mother's homesickness mounted from time to time in an insupportable crisis; but perhaps she did not go Up-the-River so often as it seemed.
But my train on the Central Ohio was already there; and as Price obeyed the call to board his train for Cleveland, I mounted mine for Washington, and we never saw each other again.
We were both mounted on the italic-footed mare, I behind my brother, with my arms round him to keep on better; and so we rode out of the sleeping town, and into the lifting shadow of the woods.
The mice also mounted their steeds, armed to the teeth, and boiling with rage.
In the thickest of the fray a mounted mouse speared the King of the Cats, so that he fell fainting to the ground.
So he mountedhis elephant, and his guard marched proudly before him.
The colour mounted my cheeks (as it very often did at that period of my life,) and my whole frame trembled.
Next day, she mounted and, riding to his house, went in to his wife who rose up and kissed her hands and thanked her for her kindness.
FN#244] she ate a very little of that barley bread and the Badawi ordered his party to set out; so they loaded their loads and he mounted a camel setting Nuzhat al-Zaman behind him.
They brought his steed, so he mountedand rode down stream to the drawbridge which he crossed and presently threaded the woodland paths and passed into the open meadow.
Then she furnished him with wine and medicines and she sat awhile by his head, after which she mounted and returned to her palace and continued to visit every bazar in quest of her lover.
And as soon as Allah caused the morn tomorrow, they mounted and tried on, guided by the Ambassadors, for a space of twenty days; and by the night of the twenty first they came to a fine and spacious Wady well grown with trees and shrubbery.
They had fairly gained their aim, and their spirits, so long depressed, mounted to an unusual height.
The party amounted scarcely to their own number; but the sheep-drivers were not come in view; so they mounted their horses, and instantly mixed with the men behind the drove, without offering to stop the cattle.
They were all mounted on the ghosts of crackens, whales, and walruses: and for bows and quivers each had a blown bladder on his bade as large as the hill of Ben-Nevis.
They were allmounted on black steeds, clothed in dark flowing robes that were fringed with costly fringes, and they had caps on their heads that were horned like the new moon.
The four new come brethren dismounted at their abbot's request; and, without taking a moment to hesitate, the four yeomen mounted their horses.
Laidlaw was mounted on Anthony Reid's gallant steed, which Gabriel remarked, and that added to his rancour against the skin-man at least ten degrees.
Here there is a detachment of theMounted Police, who have to face all kinds of difficulty and danger in keeping order and doing their duty—often of a humanitarian character—in the northern wildernesses.
For six years his stalwart, soldierly figure, often mounted on a coal-black charger, was a familiar sight in the mushroom village which sprang up on the southern bank of the Ottawa or Grand river.
Another time a wild Buccaneer while hunting alone was surprised by a similar party of mounted pikemen.
They had scarcely well weighed anchor before they saw 600 mounted Spaniards dash down to the shore in the hopes of arresting their retreat.
They had not taken many steps across this broad hunting-ground before they saw some mounted Spaniards appear in the distance--these men were part of a troop that had collected, hearing that the Buccaneers were assembling to attack them.
A mounted officer, spying this little oasis, drew rein and gave the order to halt.
They hurried away, and without a word mounted by the back stairs to their own room.
They mounted to their room to formulate their resistance, and found two exquisite new gowns, suitable for fairy princesses, spread out like snares.
He mounted the ladder swiftly and summoned his first officer.
Came a shot from a gun mounted forward on the submarine, a signal to heave to.
Quietly they mounted the steps and as quietly tip-toed across the porch.
It was not known quite in what part of the North-west, Madras (under his new name) was, for the corps of mounted police had been changed about recently.
I had heard from the lawyer in Montreal that Madras, under another name, had gone to the prairie country to enter the mounted police.
The lord of Pengersick used to ride forth from the castle mounted upon a coal-black charger; so obedient and docile in all its ways was this steed to its master that it soon came to be universally regarded as undoubtedly of satanic origin.
Next morning the Faery opened fire from the sea on Carter's shore battery, whilst mounted troops from Penzance took up their position on the shore to the rear of his battery, and in turn opened fire upon it.
She explained what she wanted to the Mexican in his native tongue, and this time he mounted her horse and rode away.
The surveyor did not need to ask why Texas Joe had brought so large a party of mounted and armed friends.
An hour later a light spring wagon with four horses, accompanied by a party of five mounted men, moved swiftly out of Republic toward the south.
While the sky was still aflame with the colors of the morning and the desert lay under a curtain of fantastic figures and grotesque patterns woven by the light, the three menmounted their horses and set out for the field of the day's labors.
Suddenly from the left threemounted Mexicans pushed into the road and from the right two more.
Turning he put his foot in the stirrup and, with the easy graceful swing of the western horseman, he mounted and the buckskin, as his rider lifted the bridle reins, struck at once into the long lazy lope of his kind.
The man at the delivery gate recorded the number of inches in his book and, with a greeting to the young woman, mounted his horse and rode away along the canal.
In the midst of the mêlée a soldier mounted a chair near the door and raised his rifle.
Ketchim was just bowing out a caller as the young engineers mounted the steps.
As if groping through the blackness of midnight, he moved slowly down the deserted nave of the Cathedral and mounted the winding stairs to the ambulatory above.
Still retaining Carmen's hand, she mounted the steps, listening cautiously for the tread of her master.
They hurriedly mounted the white stone steps of a tall, gloomy building and entered a door that seemed to open noiselessly at their approach.
And when it rubbed against the yacht, a muffled figure mounted the ladder which hung in the shadows, and hastened through the rear hatchway and down into the depths of the boat.
The father's tremulous voice mounted high, "No, by the Saints in heaven, he shall not have it!
Josè leaned upon Rosendo, the latter supporting him with his great arm, and together they crossed the road and mounted the shale platform on which stood the ancient edifice.
Passing through the little waiting room and to the elevator, they quickly mounted to the unoccupied gallery of the theater above.
Presently they turned into the Calle Lazano, and entering the house where Marcelena had greeted him that morning, mounted to the chamber above where lay the little Maria.
At the far end of the hall the lad plunged into a narrow staircase, so narrow that a stout man could not have mounted it.
He walked toward it; then mounted the broken steps.
The scintillations from jewels whose valuemounted into millions was like the continuous flash of the electric spark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mounted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
