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  • Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The prince's colours are distributed as follows: a huzzar jacket of blue, with collar, plaquettes, and vest of grenadine and breeches of a darker blue.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • They were beautiful men, with the complexion of blonde girls; their uniforms fitted like kid gloves; the pale blue, or pure white, or huzzar black of their coats was ravishingly set off by their red or gold trimmings; and they were hard to make understand that brigadiers of American birth swarmed at

    A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

  • Emperor and Empress; Prince Albert in huzzar uniform, with a green plume in his cap; and the Prince Imperial, in cap and the uniform of

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Empress; Prince Albert in huzzar uniform, with a green plume in his cap; and the Prince Imperial, in cap and the uniform of a lieutenant, on horseback in front; while the Princess occupied a carriage behind them.

    Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.

    Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

  • Note: [16.1] The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world.

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • "Poor wounded huzzar!" sighed the herb-doctor, and dropping the money into the man's clam-shell of a hand turned and departed.

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world.

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

  • "Poor wounded huzzar!" sighed the herb-doctor, and dropping the money into the man's clam-shell of a hand turned and departed.

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

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