hussar

• There were amongst these improvised seamen a hussar, a dragoon, two veterans, a miner with his long beard, ;c. ;c. The vessel, leaving Barcelona by night, escaped the English cruiser, and got to the entrance of Port Mahon. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• He was the beau ideal of a dashing hussar, and his appearance was far more English than French. —  No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
• His fiery half-blood Graditz horse snuffed the disgusting odor of the wild beast, and would go no nearer The Captain called a hussar from the last line that passed him, and confided the stubborn horse to his charge. —  The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann
• The words were not out of his mouth before a dragoon knocked down the nearest hussar, and then, in a moment, they all flew at each other like tigers. —  The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
• 'Am I not a hussar, a brigadier, too, at the age of thirty-one, and the chosen messenger of the Emperor?' —  The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

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