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Truly the bespoke way to see the Changing of the Guard: no waiting, no jostling crowds, just us driving in the Rolls Royce along with a double line of horseguards in bright red uniforms and tall black bearskin caps, clip-clopping to the palace.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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Truly the bespoke way to see the Changing of the Guard: no waiting, no jostling crowds, just us driving in the Rolls Royce along with a double line of horseguards in bright red uniforms and tall black bearskin caps, clip-clopping to the palace.
Margie Goldsmith: Royal Wedding Fever - Bespoke Style Margie Goldsmith 2011
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I was informed by Dr Lewis, that he once fought a duel with an officer of the horseguards, for turning aside to the Park-wall, on a necessary occasion, when he was passing with a lady under his protection.
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With hot sweeping anger, came the horseguards 'clangor
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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With hot sweeping anger, came the horseguards 'clangor
America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien
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Or the romance of pomp, of horseguards and helmets and epaulettes and brass buttons and guns at "present arms."
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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Cf. description of pomp displayed by another member of the oppressed race named Fränkel, who appeared at a parade of Jewry at Prague in 1741 in a carriage drawn by six horses and surrounded by footmen and horseguards.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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With hot sweeping anger, came the horseguards clangor
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Facing the fireplace are two rocking chairs, and six others, all in haircloth, stand stiff as horseguards 'sentries about the walls.
The end of an era, 1899
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Our party being complete, we drove through crowds of people, and ranks of horseguards in cuirasses and helmets, to
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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