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This threw the rest into confusion; they endeavored to protect their unhorsed comrades from the furious assaults of the whites; but, after a scene of "confusion worse confounded," horses and mules were abandoned, and the Indians betook themselves to the bushes.

But fate ordered it otherwise, for he vanquished me and unhorsed me, and so my plan failed.

The moment that his trumpets sounded, he had been disgracefully unhorsed. There was no question as to the facts; they were one and all against the Squire.

Here Jacques Coictier, who had been unhorsed by the archdeacon's impetuous replies, regained his saddle, and interrupted him with the triumphant tone of one learned man correcting another,--" Erras amice Claudi .

All I need say, just now, is, that the Baroness Von Koeldwethout somehow or other acquired great control over the Baron Von Koeldwethout, and that, little by little, and bit by bit, and day by day, and year by year, the baron got the worst of some disputed question, or was slyly unhorsed from some old hobby; and that by the time he was a fat hearty fellow of forty-eight or thereabouts, he had no feasting, no revelry, no hunting train, and no hunting--nothing in short that he liked, or used to have; and that, although he was as fierce as a lion, and as bold as brass, he was decidedly snubbed and put down, by his own lady, in his own castle of Grogzwig.

Some words passed between them, and they glanced at Barnaby; who well remembered the man he had unhorsed at Westminster, and saw him now before his eyes.

``But, Isaac,'' said the Pilgrim, smiling, ``dost thou know that in these sports, the arms and steed of the knight who is unhorsed are forfeit to his victor?

A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

I wot it was a proud time for us, for he unhorsed each knight that he tilted against.

Fetherstonhaugh gave an account of Steele's corpse during the Winnipeg General Strike in his book, "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police." Describing the melee during the charge of the Mounties on "Bloody Saturday", Fetherstonhaugh tells us about Constable McQueen, who, unhorsed and beaten by strikers, is pulled,