spahis

These cavaliers are sometimes called spahis; they are composed of Moors, Arabs, Berbers, and all the native races in Morocco.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Sarkozy noted the Moroccan battalions, the Senegalese and the "spahis" , or North African cavalry , fought for France "like for their mother country, sparing neither pain nor their blood."

Petit Dejeuner avec Didier Decoin 2009

He thought of leaving the hotel Laginski, and taking service with the spahis and getting killed in Africa, but the same great fear checked him.

The Imaginary Mistress 2007

He thought of leaving the hotel Laginski, and taking service with the spahis and getting killed in Africa, but the same great fear checked him.

The Imaginary Mistress 2007

He had sent his light riders, his spahis, inland to ravage the country, and had reared up his siege engines in the plain.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Now down out of these hills, like spume blown before a storm, shot the spahis who had been laying waste the countryside, riding low and spurring hard, and behind them the sun shimmering on moving ranks of steel.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

The extremity of the line to which she had attached herself, being assaulted in flank by a body of the spahis, wheeled about, in order to sustain the charge, and received them with such a seasonable fire, as brought a great number of turbans to the ground; among those who fell, was one of the chiefs or agas, who had advanced before the rest, with a view to signalise his valour.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

The spahis durst not wait the shock of such an encounter; they wheeled to the right-about, and clapping spurs to their horses, fled in the utmost disorder.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

He had sent his light riders, his spahis, inland to ravage the country, and had reared up his siege engines in the plain.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Now down out of these hills, like spume blown before a storm, shot the spahis who had been laying waste the countryside, riding low and spurring hard, and behind them sun shimmered on moving ranks of steel.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003