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Marshal Mass-na, escorted by hussars and accompanied by his aides and by his mistress, who was fetchingly dressed in a sky-blue hussar's uniform, found a billet in the Archbishop's palace.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Some, seeing Christopher in his French hussar's uniform, offered a hasty salute, but most ignored him and just led their horses toward the stream as the Englishman turned to greet his visitor.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

Caressing my chest's bizarre cobalt trapunto ridges, the twin rows of vestigial mammaries like ornate golden buttons on a hussar's coat.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

A moment's inspection proved the young Pole was dead, but there was his armored vest, his halo of feathers, so with breathless delight Piotr stripped him, placed the armor about his own chest, adjusted the crown of feathers, discarded his own rather ordinary mount, and leaped upon the dead hussar's beautiful beast.

Poland Michener, James 1983

I would describe how, in one of the little, low-roofed, clay houses, the black-browed village maid, tossing on her lonely couch, dreams with heaving bosom of some hussar's spurs and moustache, and how the moonlight smiles upon her cheeks.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

A hussar's cap, so suspended from a moderate sized branch of a tree, as to be agitated by slight winds, was found filled with bees and comb.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

Majesty's attention, who, glancing at M. de Canouville, saw the cloak which he had given his sister metamorphosed into a hussar's cape.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

The count was standing with his brother-in-law, the colonel, at some little distance from the door of the summer-house, and the colonel, a fine-looking man in a hussar's uniform and with a star on his breast, overheard the conversation.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Prince Joseph had once placed disdainfully upon his hussar's uniform when he charged the Prussian cuirassiers of Ziethen, sure of escaping the sabre cuts, and not losing a single one of the stones during the combat.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

We stood in silence trying to judge how far away the thing might be, Kagig standing alone with his foot on the parapet, his goat-skin coat hanging like a hussar's dolman, and Monty pacing up and down along the roof behind us all.

The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920