foot-guards

The second regiment of foot-guards had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and

Les Miserables 2008

In her fall, she dashed the whole mess against the legs of a drummer belonging to the foot-guards, who happened to be in her way, and scalded him so miserably, that he started up, and danced up and down, uttering a volley of execrations that made my hair stand on end.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

The Duke of Ormond has got his regiment of foot-guards, I know not who has the rest.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Out of doors the King made all the men wear their hats; and in the drawing-room, everybody, even to the captains, lieutenants, and sublieutenants of the foot-guards, were permitted to be seated.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

It was in this state that they were found by a detachment of foot-guards in and opposite the house of Lord Mansfield.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

The word "busby" is also used colloquially to denote the tall bear-and-raccoon-skin "caps" worn by foot-guards and fusiliers, and the full dress feather bonnet of Highland infantry.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

THESE martyrs were two officers of distinction in the foot-guards of

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Out of doors the King made all the men wear their hats; and in the drawing-room, everybody, even to the captains, lieutenants, and sublieutenants of the foot-guards, were permitted to be seated.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The procession, through a line of foot-guards, every seventh man bearing a torch, the horse-guards lining the outside, their officers with drawn sabres and crape sashes on horse-back, the drums muffled, the fifes, bells tolling, and minute guns, -- all this was very solemn.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

Broussa (Prusa) in Bithynia under Ourkhan, moreover, they organized the regular foot-guards of janizaries against whom the undisciplined troops of Western knights could not hold out.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913