hussars

I called my hussars, and we galloped forward to intercept.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Only the officers retained the uniform of the hussars, which is rich and easy to wear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

I have all along hitherto, in the warfare of life, been bred to arms among the light-horse -- the piquet-guards of fancy: a kind of hussars and Highlanders of the brain; but I am firmly resolved to sell out of these giddy battalions, who have no ideas of a battle but fighting the foe, or of a siege but storming the town.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

I have all along, hitherto, in the warfare of life, been bred to arms among the light horse -- the piquet-guards of fancy; a kind of hussars and

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

Maybe five or more - I couldn't see whether they were hussars or dragoons or what, but I had a feeling they were heavies.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

God knows how far their line ran from flank to flank, but there were thousands of them, hanging over us like an ocean roller frozen in the act of breaking, a huge body of blue and silver hussars on the left, and to the right the grey and white of their dragoons.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The other had been gymnast and dog trainer for hussars.

Goodnight Dogs 2010

Unable to seek his fortune as a knight errant, Anton has enlisted with the royal Jorgarian hussars and taken Wulf along as his servant.

Archive 2010-05-01 Jeff C 2010

Unable to seek his fortune as a knight errant, Anton has enlisted with the royal Jorgarian hussars and taken Wulf along as his servant.

New Fantasy Releases: Week of May 25, 2010 Jeff C 2010

The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I descended at Byfleet station and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I and the artilleryman had talked to the hussars, and on by the spot where the Martian had appeared to me in the thunderstorm.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009