Word: dismounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dismount and advance one of your number," I suggested; for plenty of natives speak perfect French and it was also much too dark to see the man's face...
...tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they could. To do this was not difficult. They had only to dismount and look the other way while the train took their horses. Sportsmanship offered them a dubious chance. They took it, struck in their spurs, and dashed straight down the ties toward the culvert's end while the train with brakes screaming, rushed up behind them, closer, closer and then...
...incident of the fighting reported from the French front: Major Chartrane, commanding a bat talion of colored troops, ordered an advance. Looking down his line, he saw an officer on horse back. Infuriated by such reckless bravado, he rushed down the line shouting to the officer to dismount. When he came close he discovered that the mounted man was Lieut. De Latour, who had often led his company into battle. A short time before he had been shot dead. Two black sergeants had placed his body on a horse and were holding it upright so that he might once more...
...first event, the musical stalls, will be a kind of "Going to Jerusalem" affair in which the entrants will ride round a ring of chairs to the tune of the band. When the music stops the men will dismount and rush for the nearest chair. As there will be one less seat on each round than there are men, the man who fails to find a seat will be eliminated...
...teams of two riders each will participate in the obstacle race. Starting dressed in regular uniform, the men will race to a series of falls set up in the arena, scale these, jump into denims, climb out again and remount. Then, further on, they will dismount again, climb through some barrels and jump into the saddle again. Finally, after taking a jump they will race to a rack, where they will dismount and leave their overalls and then report to the judges' stand...