The carbineers having searched every part of the ship below, we came on deck where the captain's cabin was.
On the 25th February a rising and mutiny of the Carbineers or Custom-House Guards took place in Manila at the captain of the port's office.
But the structure was already hopelessly afire; and the baffled carbineers of the advance reined up at the edge of the burning timbers and sent an angry volley after the gray infantry now jogging back into the woods beyond.
Little heaps of brilliant colour dotting the meadow were being lifted and carried off the field by comrades; a few dismounted carbineers ran hither and thither, shooting hopelessly crippled horses.
To his great regret the orders for the Carbineers to go to India were countermanded.
The population began to regain its courage and to applaud the carbineers as they arrested the assassins; the Swiss entered amid cheers.
The Thousand then sounded a charge--the Genoese carbineers in the van, followed by a chosen band of youths impatient to come to close quarters.
All our best exertions were made to draw to the side of Government the carbineers and dragoons, as also Bellezzi and the honest leaders of the people, but with little success.
Rossi hurried the Civic Guard and the carbineers to the spot, allayed the tumult, arrested and imprisoned some of its ringleaders, and published an energetic proclamation to warn the turbulent that the laws would be enforced.
All the carbineers and soldiers there are, are mine, and dependent on me, and there are no ropes that can bind me.
I should be sorry to believe in the number of carbineers he is supposed to have killed during that period; no doubt the truth came out during his subsequent trial.
Besides them there were only the carbineers installed in the barracks and various calkers making their mallets resound on the hull of a schooner ordered by the Blanes brothers.
The three carbineers looked about carefully on every side, saw the young peasants, and galloping up, began to question them.
Then the carbineers scoured the country in different directions, but in vain; then, after a time, they disappeared.
In an instant the carbineers were upon it; and struggling through the mass of carnage, they rode onward.
The carbineers dashed on, prepared to die: what death so dreadful as the cold irony of Napoleon!
The Cuirassiers and Carbineers of the Guard to form by threes in column of attack!
Tenth," called out the Emperor, as the last squadrons of the carbineers went by, "support your comrades!
And now comes the order for the carbineers to move up; the cuirassiers have been cut to pieces.
The horsemen rode around them in vain; no charge could break the shining squares, until our dismounted carbineers poured in their volleys afresh, making gaps in the spent ranks, and then in their wavering time the cavalry thundered down.
Our carbineers were making feint to charge in direct front, and our infantry, four deep, hemmed in their entire left.
In the meantime, Sawyer's brigade held on the pike in column of fours, mounted, anxiously awaiting orders and developments, listened intently to the desultory firing of the carbineers and the occasional boom of the cannon in front.
Well, some of Davies's advance regiments were dismounted and the men sent forward deployed as carbineers on foot to feel of the fortifications and make a tentative attack on their defenders.
To the Bushman's Pass a force of about twenty of the Natal carbineers (cavalry) was sent up.
Thus, out of a troop of fifty, thirty-three of the Natal volunteer carbineers fell in these two affairs owing, on both occasions, to the grossest mismanagement.
At this point the carbineers return again, and the house at once is in an uproar.
In the finale of the act Lorenzo and his carbineers return, and not finding Fra Diavolo at the inn, where they had hoped to surprise him, resume their search, leaving him to perfect his plans for the robbery.
Seized by two carbineers at the turn in a dark path, he had disengaged himself by drawing his knife to stab a chest with it: half a second, a resisting flesh, then, crack!
While the Carbineers were carrying away one of their dead another shell burst close by.
In the evening the Natal Carbineers gave an open-air concert to a big audience.
For many miles I saw small parties of our Lancers and Carbineers scouring the country on both sides of the track.
The Carbineers especially kept crowding round the old gun like children in their excitement.
A squadron of Lancers and some of the Natal Carbineers were in front.
The advance of two main columns from the passes in the north-west had been fairly steady; and last night our outposts of the Natal Carbineers were engaged, as the 5th Lancers had been the night before.
Of these last, the Carbineers are perhaps the best, and generally serve as scouts towards the Free State frontier.
Voices, footsteps, sounded outside and a man in the cocked hat and uniform of a lieutenant of carbineers came briskly into the hall and saluted his superior.
They scoured the mountains and patrolled the roads; they searched the houses and farms, the valleys and thickets, and as the days dragged on, proving the futility of their efforts, still more carbineers arrived.
Carbineers and soldiers came pouring into Terranova and San Sebastiano.
Several desperate attacks were made upon the abbey, but each was repulsed with heavy loss; and as the carbineers had now moved lower down, and their guns commanded the village, the Neapolitans lost heart and fell back.
A question, perhaps, of common sense--of realising that local institutions often work with less friction and less outlay than that system of governmental centralisation of which thecarbineers are an example.
There is a village of about three hundred inhabitants not far from Rome; fifteen carbineers are quartered there.
Is there not a barrack-full of carbineers at the entrance of the place ready to arrest such people?
There we were obliged to leave our carriage and embark in a little boat which brought us after much tossing to the Sardinian customs house, where two carbineersallowed us to warm ourselves at their fire.
La Gervaisais, a young Breton gentleman, an officer of carbineers of Monsieur's regiment.
And it spoke well for the vigilance of the carbineers that the contrabandistas could find no more convenient place of concealment.
In the public room beyond, some harbourmen and one of the never-absent carbineers sat smoking.
The Carbineers had attacked the men of Field-Cornet de Beer on a ridge, and bombarded them with a Maxim.
Here there was nothing besides the little brown canvas Free State tents, and the beautiful little green tents taken from the Carbineers on the 18th.
The camp of theCarbineers also fell into our hands, and the burghers were immensely pleased with the little light green tents they found.
Next day Field-Cornet de Beer collided with the Carbineers not far from Bester's Station, and the first burgher of the Harrismith Commando was killed.
Our burghers held their ground until Field-Cornet Lyon arrived with a reinforcement and charged the Carbineers on their right wing.
Some of the Carbineers are also under the impression that they captured a gun, and though there is nothing to show for it, they deserve full credit for an important share in the night's success.
In vain are shrapnels timed to burst in a shower where Carbineers sweep round like Indian scouts to herd the startled horses back.
Mounting the really fine horse that they had sent me down, and escorted by the sixteen mounted carbineers (who do police duty on foot in ordinary times at Monte Carlo and in the town), I rode off at a sharp trot by the winding road.
It was lucky the sailors had come, for I soon discovered that the carbineers had made common cause with the mob, and that the sergeants who were ready to die for me would not have escorted Garibaldi.
Among the Carbineers and other volunteer corps were the sons of many of the leading inhabitants of Natal, and in the Police also were many relatives of colonists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carbineers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
