mounting-block
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He aided her to her feet, untied the horses, and offered her his hand for a mounting-block.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
I was riding with a friend one morning when we saw handsome horses waiting at the mounting-block, just inside the gates.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
I leapt off, and stood by the mounting-block to help her.
From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh
"Lead us to it," said St. Georges, "then attend to the horse;" and as he spoke he threw the reins over the hook fixed in the tree by the mounting-block.
From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John
At last he left us to go about his little business; and we, sitting on a broken mounting-block in the sunshine, gazed lazily and contentedly at the scene.
From The Thread of Gold by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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