grenadier

• There's a great giant of a man on the box-seat with a beard like a grenadier's shako, and a stout old gentleman behind him with gold spectacles. —  The Gorilla Hunters
• He's a queer little body, and not so bad-looking either, with a bolster on the top of his head, and himself not higher than a pillow; a pigeon could sit upon his shoulder and peck up peas out of his shoes; he struts like a grenadier, and, by the powers! —  The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook
• It was the lacerated thigh of a grenadier, whose flesh had been torn off by a hand-grenade. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
• On I marched, therefore, as steady as a judge or a grenadier on parade, when, just as I got near the door, a dark shaggy form rose up right before me, the eyes glowing redder and hotter than ever. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
• Even Morgan partook of the change, and I well recall how he came to me just before he landed, in a kind of grenadier uniform, with sword and musket and belts, drawing himself up very stiff and proud-looking as he let down the butt-end of his firelock with a loud bang upon the deck Do I look all right and soldierly, Master George?" —  Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah

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