mounts

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Examples

The steps in front must be arranged so that there shall always be an odd number of them; for thus the right foot, with which one mounts the first step, will also be the first to reach the level of the temple itself. Vitruvius

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther

The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end. Pat Buchanan

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Anna Letitia Barbauld

When a slave mounts a camel he wants to ride on both humps. Egyptian Proverb

When he mounts his horse he forgets God; when he dismounts, he forgets his horse. Russian Proverb