The drive extended to a courtyard on the north side of the dwelling, where the porch joined a covered portico with long mounting-block steps. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)
There were the indecent pictures in the bar, and the Norman decorations — sham beams on the walls, electric lights done up as candlesticks, ‘peasant’ pottery, even a mounting-block at the door — and the PATRON and the head waiter were Russian officers, and many of the customers tided Russian refugees. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the morning we found our mounts well rested, coats curried to a high sheen, led out to the roadside mounting-block by a country lad, his hands and feet too large for his gangling frame. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
There was, thank heavens, a mounting-block in the center. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)
This was a wide, cobbled square, with the old mounting-block at its centre, and on two sides the stable doors and the archways of the coach-house. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1997)
He bent to loosen the girth, with some remark in an undertone, but she replied briefly and turned away, to see me sitting on the step of the mounting-block. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1997)
He turned to glare, so far as his mild, plain face was capable of glaring, at the incubus of whom he spoke, and behold, Brother Jerome had vanished from his mounting-block, and was scurrying head-down for the abbot's lodging. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1992)
Brother Jerome stood perched on the mounting-block by the hail, his attention divided between giving orders left and right, and watching every moment at the gate. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1992)
The groom led him out, and hitched him indifferently to one of the rings in the wall beside the mounting-block, and there left him to wait for his rider. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)
“Yes, yes, of course,” Dr. Otterly said, impatiently, and yet with the air of a man whose hobby-horse is at the mounting-block. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1956)
By the door there was a mounting-block, and there was a rusty torch extinguisher on the wall like a candle-snuffer. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
By-and-by a red door intervened on our left, fitted into an imposing whitewashed arched gateway, with a mounting-block on each side, and the great brass ring-shaped knocker in the middle of the door which the Moors have left all over Spain -- the garden-house of the French Consul. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
There were the indecent pictures in the bar, and the Norman decorationssham beams on the walls, electric lights done up as candlesticks, peasant pottery, even a mounting-block at the doorand the patron and the head waiter were Russian officers, and many of the customers titled Russian refugees. ❋ Unknown (1933)
I was riding with a friend one morning when we saw handsome horses waiting at the mounting-block, just inside the gates. ❋ Waddington, Mary King (1914)
We separated at the mounting-block, and I watched them a little way down the road. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
So thinking, I went in and watched John Flint finish a mounting-block from a plan in the book open upon the table, adding, however, certain improvements of his own. ❋ Marie Conway Oemler (1905)
Before the horse was at the mounting-block she was awaiting him, buttoning her gloves, while she extended her foot for Bob to buckle her spur. ❋ Edward Stratton Holloway (1903)
