mounting-block

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.

Ordermaster 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.

Down and Out in Paris and London 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.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

There was, thank heavens, a mounting-block in the center.

The Gates Of Sleep 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.

Rose cottage 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.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

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.

Rose cottage 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.

Rose cottage 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.

Monk's Hood 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.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992