Unhorsed

And even though I see you now "unhorsed," I shall not lose my first impression, because I know that by and by you will be just like that again -- looking and feeling as if you were fit to conquer the world. ❋ Unknown (1912)

How limiting in motion and how a knight unhorsed or knocked on his back would not be able to rise on his own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At this juncture a rotten stirrup leather parted, and Daylight was all but unhorsed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ryan was also to be unhorsed by earlier divorce accusations from his former wife, the actress Jeri Ryan, who accused the GOP standard-bearer of forcing her to go to S&M clubs and have sex in public. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Elsinore, unhorsed by my encounters with the problems of the ultimate, carried off the field with a broken pate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only an excellent rider could have escaped being unhorsed, and as it was, Daylight was nastily near to it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twain never quite specified why he favored Bacon, just remained eager, in his pugnacious, populist way, "to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed." ❋ Lloyd Rose (2010)

It does n't take much imagination to see the Ford Explorer, once America's cowboy sweetheart, as somehow now unhorsed, and part of a larger narrative of diminished expectations. ❋ Dan Neil (2010)

Stephen was left unhorsed with us, the remnant of his horse and foot, around him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An unhorsed mudman managed to snag the reins of the lead horse, and suddenly we were turning, and he had one foot in the stirrup and was hopping up and down and we were going the wrong way, toward the fight. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

“No doubt, Spitter,” I said, though I did doubt it, remembering how Galan had been unhorsed once in a tourney, and Spiller had been too cowardly to do his duty and pull him out from under the hooves of the warhorses. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

She ­envisions him unhorsed and chopped to the ground at Bosworth by Henry Tudor's men — just as Shakespeare would have it a century or so later. ❋ Geoffrey Moorhouse (2009)

Brenhilda of Aspramonte was unhorsed and unhelmed, and stretched on the earth, and the beautiful face, which faded from very red to deadly pale before the eyes of the victor, produced its natural effect in raising the value of his conquest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He would surely think that he had been unhorsed while riding on a great and sacred mission. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Diego] [unhorsed] [Johnny] then turned to him and said “now you’re unhorsed” ❋ Smiladon_populator (2022)