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But the game at the Horse-Guards is different, good lack!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 Various
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At six o'clock, the three regiments were drawn up in front of the Horse-Guards, a body of three thousand men, and finer-looking troops never bore arms.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The tardiness of the Horse-Guards is to be moved by nothing but an invasion; and it would be almost as rational to wait the growth of an oak, as to wait the signing of your commission; but it shall be done in my own way.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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To do that would be to walk with open eyes to disgrace, and shame, and infamy, with a whole community, a whole regiment, and the Horse-Guards at the back of them, all banded together to crush me.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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He is in St. James 'Park; for, possessing imaginary rather than substantial claims to military rank, he flits about the Horse-Guards to keep up his character.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various
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_ It is said that Mr. BRIEFLESS JUNIOR has accused the First Lord of having stolen the Horse-Guards clock.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893 Various
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Amelia had the house to herselfah! too much to herself sometimesnot that she ever doubted; for, to be sure, George must be at the Horse-Guards; and he cant always get leave from Chatham; and he must see his friends and sisters, and mingle in society when in town (he, such an ornament to every society!); and when he is with the regiment, he is too tired to write long letters.
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To enable him to obey the summons it was first necessary to obtain leave of absence from the Legislature; and the motion that was to come up in the Assembly that evening, was, whether the House, on the evidence before it, would agree to release the incriminated officer from his Parliamentary duties so as to face the frivolous charge at the "Horse-Guards" in London.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898
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You have lost all chance of leading the forces of the County Council to the attack of the Horse-Guards.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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English brethren were equipping our Confederate brethren to sweep our commerce from the seas, I think I must have gone to see those images at the Horse-Guards even before I visited the monuments in Westminster
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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