grenadier's

I got my grenadier's uniform dry cleaned and my assegai is still razor sharp!

The Chimes at Midnight 2006

He pushed the grenadier's head back so far that he could see the whites of his eyes and still the man would not let go of his throat so Sharpe just slid the blade to his right, slid once and his world turned red as the sword sliced into the Frenchman's jugular.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Shop interiors were hung all about with chocolate Easter eggs done in scintillating coloured papers, each egg decorated in a spray effect for all the world like a grenadier's badge.

The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

I then put on him his flannel vest and shirt, a neck-cloth of very fine muslin, and over all a black silk stock; finally a round vest of white pique, and either a chasseur's or grenadier's coat, usually the former.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

And here allow us to say that the infantry shako and the great grenadier's cap are perfectly absurd and misplaced; the one will never give a man any chance against a sabre-cut, and the other is fit only to tumble off within the first two minutes of a charge.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

One day, when I was at Paris, the emperor, I was told, was to review his troops in the courtyard of the Tuileries; so I dressed myself in my best, -- it was a grenadier's uniform, -- a comrade wrote on a piece of paper my desire; and, with my paper in my hand, I posted myself near a battalion of lancers.

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

To Terry she's only a mute and muscular Finnish servant-girl with an arm like a grenadier's.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

It is in shape and appearance, though not in colour, almost exactly like the grenadier's shako of the last century.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

With the help of a couple of men he was carried back to the far side of a little knoll and seated on a grenadier's folded coat, while the grenadier who had taken it off ran over to a spring to get some water.

The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf William Charles Henry Wood 1905

He knew every pose and movement of her body, from her first tentative, preluding pirouette, to her last moon-struck dance, when she tossed her tall grenadier's cap to the back of the stage, and still spinning, shook out her hair, and flung herself backwards, till it streamed and eddied with the whirlwind of her dance.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904