How To Use Unhorse In A Sentence
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King Kryger first saw Ray carrying another boy in a school-yard fight game called Horse, in which two heavier boys carried two lighter boys on their shoulders, and the boys on top grappled and tried to “unhorse” each other.
Raymond Carver
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In response, the New Deal attempted to unhorse those President Franklin Roosevelt termed “economic royalists,” who were growing rich off “other people’s money” while the country suffered its worst trauma since the Civil War. “The Street” trembled.
Steve Fraser: The All-American Occupation
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Kahlan saw General Meiffert reach up, seize a fistful of chain mail, and unhorse the man who had been dragging her tent.
Men Don't Leave Me
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Eleanor was amazed at how easily this mysterious knight had unhorsed the yellow knight, and she found that despite her earlier feelings towards jousting, she really did want to see more of this jousting tournament.
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She checked the straps on her leg armor, making sure they were tight, remembering how the enemy's strong fingers had clawed at her legs, trying to unhorse her.
Men Don't Leave Me
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We see the use of lances with hooks, to unhorse an opponent, but there is little mounted archery, and too much man-to-man sword fighting in small, confused melees.
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One of his friends tried to unhorse me with a blow of his mace, but I caught it with my father's shield.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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In his fury and humiliation at being unhorsed, he turned to meet the one who had brought him down, ready to make up for it.
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He gathers himself up, and strains every nerve and faculty with deliberate aim to some heroic and dazzling atchievement of intellect: but he must make a career before he flings himself, armed, upon the enemy, or he is sure to be unhorsed.
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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Doubtless you include yourself among that numerous tribe of Texas titans who can "unhorse" me as easily as turning a hen over; and having accorded you unlimited space in which to acquire momentum, I would certainly dread the shock were I cursed with an atom of polemical pride.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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His narrative provided my father with a good deal of background and color though, except for the incident of the unhorsed Indian, few useful specifics.
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She remembered men grabbing for her, trying to unhorse her, but she didn't recall their hands actually clawing at her.
Men Don't Leave Me
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The five men in the 20th century who unhorsed sitting presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton - all built their power bases as state governors.
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Jousting, a sport that involves two opponents trying to unhorse each other with a lance, began in France as early as the 12th century as a way for aristocrats to polish their combat skills and validate their warrior status.
Nascar's Roots May Go Way Back
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One imagines that an eager young suitor, taking his girl there on a first date, could be seriously unhorsed when he tried to order that impressive bottle of Pinot Grigiot he had in mind.
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In this station the Armenians again exercised his courage and exposed his negligence; and the same rebel, who baffled all his operations, was unhorsed, and almost slain by the vigor of his lance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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And hardest of all was the force needed to unhorse a performer hesitant to fall on cue.
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One wouldn't want to be unhorsed in the middle of the chase, what?
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But one of the movie's many pleasures comes in watching Wright – who always thinks cinematically – adapt himself to a comic book-inspired piece of intelligent action trash, and he somehow maintains his grip until about 15 minutes before wrap time, when the cliches of the genre finally encircle and unhorse him.
Joe Wright: wrong for Hollywood?
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The Knights may have been unhorsed by their own actions or inactions as in the case of the Worcester County Shoe Strike of 1887, but outside pressures were mounting as well.
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I had to slow down quickly or I would have been unhorsed trying to make the right.
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During a street clash in 1912 a 73-year-old woman unionist unhorsed the Police Commissioner with her hatpin.
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The second charge was much the same, but on the third, Arthur was unhorsed.
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One of his friends tried to unhorse me with a blow of his mace, but I caught it with my father's shield.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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Sir Andros easily unhorsed his challenger, and the young Kerric landed flat on his back with a loud crash, steel plates clattering about his body, helmet rolling away.
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Scarcely did I catch her words, for a man sprang in, seizing my bridle-rein and leg and struggling to unhorse me.
Chapter 17
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However, William is unhorsed and a shout goes up that he is dead.
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A few phone calls later, O'Reilly says, the Hopkins myth was unhorsed.