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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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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 Reid, Mayne