The arms and appointments of the hussar were a sad encumbrance in this climate. From Wordnik.com. [In New Granada Heroes and Patriots] Reference
The minister calmed the old hussar with a gesture. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
By the light of the moon, her poor wounded hussar!. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
They were fired by M. Ernest, (the hussar officer.). From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
When he sank in her arms -- the poor wounded hussar. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
I am Ernest, the hussar officer, your travelling companion. '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
"A Polish hussar, I think," replied a subaltern in Wellesley's Rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
The gates opened, and out dashed a hussar band, the flower of all the cavalry. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
One day he was an hussar, the next a lancer, and then again in some fancy uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829] Reference
I should have known those whiskers anywhere-the very picture of a dashing hussar, eh?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and The Redskins]
"Fancy a hussar finding amusement in lambs, and cows, and fat pigs, and green fields!". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Brown hussar braiding on a tailor-made jacket does not, however, consort with hay wagons. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
With Patten was an impatient man with turbulent black hair and a hussar mustache — Dr. A. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
‘Where are you off to?’ the young princess asked, glancing at me from behind the hussar. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
Even the prince took notice of her; and to please him she wore the green uniform of a hussar. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
For love of you I disguised myself so; and I also was the hussar who rode through your crockery. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
'As to the officer, tie him to a tree,' continued he, to the four men who were holding the hussar. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Fedya, ask her for a pinch of snuff; you will see what a splendid snuff-box it is; on the lid a hussar on horseback. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
Young Weimar looks uncommonly well in his hussar uniform, and the old prince and his wife and daughter are resplendent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
"Come along, Sir, come along," said he, as he threw his hussar jacket loosely behind him, to give freedom to his sword-arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
They talked of the Caucasus, of the nature of true passion, of snug berths in the service, of the income of an hussar called. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from Underground] Reference
Puzyritsin was a very good-natured and shy person, and was always preparing to be an hussar, in spite of his thirty-three years. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
The hussar, in whom I recognised one of the young men I had seen the evening before, smiled and bowed with a clink of his spurs and. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
In the best French which he could muster, and which was in sooth of a very ungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell his tale. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
You flew into a fury at the mere mention of our school; but do you remember how you came and persuaded all the class that a hussar called. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
A little light hussar in tight riding breeches rode off at a gallop, crouched up like a cat on the saddle, in imitation of English jockeys. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
‘Count Malevsky, Doctor Lushin, Meidanov the poet, the retired captain Nirmatsky, and Byelovzorov the hussar, whom you’ve seen already. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
Why, I committed the very blunder against which I had cautioned you, and fell into the hands of the first hussar patrole I could possibly have met. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
"He is a hussar, of a good family, sufficiently good looks, and, I think, no fortune," says Mr. Massereene, as though reading from a doubtful guide-book. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Yanski, on the whole, had not greatly troubled himself to demonstrate mathematically or philosophically that a "hussar pupil" was an absolute necessity to him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Claire Fromont, a miniature Cauchoise dressed in lace, presented her to her cousin Georges, a magnificent hussar who turned at every step to observe the effect of his sabre. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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