dismount
verb (used without object)
to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
had been dismounting
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past perfect progressiveof dismount.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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While the men had been dismounting and Pembroke was giving his orders Archie had proceeded up the hill with the hound.
From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
No, that would never do; so, throwing my legs over the croup, I landed upon the pavement with as much deliberation as if I had been dismounting at my own stable-door.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
