Life-Guards

Veneering having instructed his driver to charge at the Public in the streets, like the Life-Guards at Waterloo, is driven furiously to Duke

Our Mutual Friend 2004

She had a cousin in the Life-Guards, with such long legs that he looked like the afternoon shadow of somebody else.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Would you believe he tried to do without me—in the Life-Guards, too?

XXII. Some Old Scenes, and Some New People 1917

Would you believe he tried to do without me - in the Life-Guards, too? '

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, “But the puppies fight well; ” and Nelson said of his sailors, “They really mind shot no more than peas.

VIII. English Traits. Character 1909

Young men, whose fathers had landed estates of £2,000 a-year, which were quietly divided amongst Cromwell's Life-Guards, while the proprietor was sent out to beg, and his daughters compelled to take in washing or do needlework, could scarcely be expected to take such a change in their circumstances very calmly.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

Besides this, I was foolish enough to get married to a worthless, drunken fellow, my own countryman, who had been Fence Master in the Life-Guards, and he very speedily ate me out of House and Home, giving me continual Black Eyes, besides.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards delicately brought up, "but the puppies fight well;" and Nelson said of his sailors, "they really mind shot no more than peas."

English Traits (1856) 1856

She had a cousin in the Life-Guards, with such long legs that he looked like the afternoon shadow of somebody else.

David Copperfield 1850

Would you believe he tried to do without me-in the Life-Guards, too? '

David Copperfield 1850