Sentence Examples

1. They then brought him his ass, and mounting him on top of it they put his jacket round him and the compassionate Maritornes, seeing him so exhausted, thought fit to refresh him with a jug of water, and that it might be all the cooler she fetched it from the well.
2. Sancho Panza, seeing his master treated in this fashion, attacked the madman with his closed fist but the Ragged One received him in such a way that with a blow of his fist he stretched him at his feet, and then mounting upon him crushed his ribs to his own satisfaction the goatherd, who came to the rescue, shared the same fate and having beaten and pummelled them all he left them and quietly withdrew to his hiding-place on the mountain.
3. A hundred of them had, according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train, with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop.
4. Down in the village centre, I park outside the front yard gates of the old mill house, mounting the right wheels on the pavement.
5. Lee was a beanpole of a man, tall, unhealthily thin, with stringy blond hair clinging to either side of his mounting baldness.
6. For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the student can compare with what the soldier feels, who finds himself beleaguered in some stronghold mounting guard in some ravelin or cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or fly from the imminent danger that threatens him?
7. He leaves the kitchen, brushing past me in the doorway and mounting the stairs in twos.
8. He found himself blathering as he tried to cope with his mounting fear.
9. On the way down the stairs, one tread at a time, along with a mounting resentment I mull over how I came to be here on this very day.
10. At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave of Montesinos and saw Dulcinea, transformed into a country wench, skipping and mounting upon her she-ass again that the words of the sage Merlin were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be observed and the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea.