chasseur

• A chasseur, who happened to be there, and the landlord, came to my assistance, while I, battling with the peasants, had thrown two of them down. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
• She wished she were a German-Swiss porter, a merry chasseur--anything but Mrs. Eustace Greyne. —  The Mission Of Mr. Eustace Greyne 1905
• We saw the camp chair on which Sister Julie sat all night in front of the hospital and kept the Germans out The Commission spent the greater part of the day in Gerbeviller, visiting the bridge where the seventy-five chasseurs held up the German advance, as well as that where one lone chasseur--a regular "Horatio at the Bridge", kept back the attacking party at the Chateau We went through this chateau, which is owned by a resident of Paris and was one of the sights of the village. —  A Journey Through France in War Time
• The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
• A chasseur, in a livery which Lucien did not recognize, let down the step, and two women in evening dress came out of the brougham. —  Lost Illusions

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