life-guards

  To me, he lacked all interesting signs of neurosis or skinniness — but to my mother, all male life-guards were ideally clean-cut and fine specimens of manhood.

Euro-car at the Pool 2010

So saying, they entered the barracks, where they parted company — the commander of the life-guards taking his way to a splendid set of apartments which belonged to him in that capacity, and the

Count Robert of Paris 2008

And this was before they told life-guards what to wear.

my first time impetuousme 2006

Whenever he traveled privately, he had one thousand camels to carry his baggage, two hundred chariots for his concubines, one thousand completely armed men for his life-guards, and a great many more light-armed; and he had at least ten thousand horsemen altogether, of his servants and retinue.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Outside the Prince's lodging, his escort of life-guards was now drawn up.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

After dinner he rode out, attended by his life-guards, and reviewed his army; where there were always a great number of spectators, in coaches and on horseback.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

Then followed Mr. Secretary with a brace or two of town notables unwillingly yoked to the task of giving an appearance of local support; then followed the Prince, between O'Sullivan and the Colonel, with young Clanranald and me at their heels; and another dozen life-guards in the rear.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Murray, taking a body of life-guards, went in person to reconnoitre the position of the enemy.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

Ahead of us went a dozen dismounted life-guards to clear the causeways.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

And now the craning of necks at the angle where the great road curved into the square, betokened something out of the ordinary, which turned out to be the arrival of the Prince's life-guards.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough