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Specifically, the bicyclists should have dismounted from their bicycles and walked around the sidewalk obstruction; trees and shrubs should have been properly trimmed; and garbage/recycling bins should have been placed in unobstructed areas.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2022

The King, who in the meanwhile will have dismounted, will also move out to the platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our two guides afterwards said that if alone, they would have dismounted; but that as the ladies said nothing, they did not like to propose it.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

To-night two hundred Cavaliers will have ridden in as near as they dare, and then one hundred and fifty will have dismounted and marched silently under cover of the darkness opposite the gates.—Snore, boy, snore!”

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville

In the same moment Netz's squire rushed in, exclaiming, "Two of the bishop's equerries have dismounted before the Guildhall; he will be here himself in a quarter of an hour."

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der