This plan was not efficiently executed, and the Chasseur battalions shared the fate of the Department Legions of France, and were merged in the existing regiments.
These Chasseurs were applied in the Austrian service as light troops, and so great was their efficiency against the Prussians that Frederick the Great was compelled, in his turn, to organize a battalion of Chasseur sharp-shooters.
I fancied the time when the horn of the chasseur was heard-echoing through those vast courts, its last notes lost in the merry voices of the cortege round the monarch.
He had conducted me to the opening of his tent, and there was a chasseur who led up and down a most admirable creature.
A Chasseur raised his musket and shot one of them through the head.
A professional acrobat, 22, Corporal in an African Chasseur regiment, was rather instructively tattooed and had apparently performed some of his service in disciplinary companies.
A number of chasseurs were doing the “tortoise-shell” under bombardment, when the last chasseur in the line was blown forward above his comrades by a shell bursting about a meter behind him.
As to their dress, it baffles description, and the horror of my friend the ex-chasseur at his first glimpse of it was as good as a play.
The enraged chasseur mumbled a word or two for Beppo's ear, in execrable Italian, and went.
She was about to leave him, when the Duchess of Graatli's chasseur was ushered in, bearing a missive from Amalia, her friend.
Laura signalled to the chasseur that her answer was affirmative.
It was not his intention to rush into the embrace of Jacob Baumwalder Feckelwitz, but that perambulating chasseur received him in a semi- darkness where all were shadows, and exclaimed, 'Aennchen!
The ex-chasseur d'Afrique, who was eating a cheese sandwich, stopped and held his knife suspended in the air.
But the chasseur pricked up his ears at hearing the whinnying of a horse and rose and went out to make sure that Poulet was not in want of anything.
But Rochas looked at the chasseur with an eye of tenderness, for the uniform awakened old memories of Africa.
And I know that that hired man, Prosper, is a chasseur d'Afrique and a deserter, and belongs to us by rights.
Three others were seated in a negligent pose, their elbows resting on the arms of their chairs, while a chasseur had his hand extended as if in the act of taking a glass from the table.
But the chasseur appeared disgusted with the task assigned him.
At the end of the street was a monument standing in a public garden, and at the corner of the avenue he beheld a horseman, a chasseur d'Afrique, whose face seemed familiar to him.
It was Captain Thomas Boyle in the Chasseur of Baltimore who impudently sent ashore his proclamation of a blockade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which he requested should be posted in Lloyd's Coffee House.
The Chasseur could easily have run away but stood up to it and shot the enemy to pieces in fifteen minutes.
His Chasseur was considered one of the ablest privateers of the war and the most beautiful vessel ever seen in Baltimore.
Perhaps if Madame de Chasteller in Le Chasseur Vert had been a finished portrait, she might have ranked after Gina in interest.
When off duty the chasseur preserves his rapid pace, and his ferocious, almost tigerish manner.
He invariably finds a brother chasseur who is also absent on leave, and who shares several bottles of sour wine with him.
Naturally, the belles adore this perfect dancer; but they should not trust him--the chasseur is even more inconstant than that heartless butterfly, the voltigeur.
I will drive along this avenue in a caleche with a chasseur behind me!
Espard coming towards him in a wonderfully appointed caleche, with a chasseurbehind it in waving plumes and that gold-embroidered green uniform which he knew only too well.
Laurent, the one wounded Chasseur of his troop, and said the doctors hoped to save his eye; so we had no reason to grumble.
I made up my mind to go out and see whether my little Chasseur was not still lying out on the scene of the charge.
Of all these matters the chasseur speaks, if not altogether admiringly, yet as necessities of that war, and stands forth with plausible sophisms in defence of the barbarities of the razzia system.
I am Bertrand Fauchet, Chasseur Alpin," and he tried to click his bandaged heel against his shoe.
He was a Chasseur Alpin; he had been wounded in the same charge as Monsieur Satan.
Miss Leare bowed to me gracefully and motioned to her chasseur to open the carriage-door.
We look down on the piou-piou from a fearful height, and swagger against the Chasseur d'Afrique himself.
Chasseur d'Afrique what she thought of him and his insults; not above spitting at a leering, gesture-making Spahi.
Chasseur Alpin; the bullet wound had made a small hole just over the left nipple, and the dressing of it was most painful to watch, as the poor boy evidently suffered great agony, though he never cried out or complained.
Chasseur Alpin, shot through the chest about an inch above the heart.
Chasseur Alpin with a bullet through the chest, had recovered from various complications and was now able to sit up in a chair.
Some days afterwards, whilst in the boudoir, she heard the same rustling noise near her, and on looking up, she saw the figure of the Chasseur suspended in the air between the ceiling and the floor, with his legs dangling in the air.
And then they learned that the house had been previously occupied by the Danish minister, and that a Chasseur in his service had, from some cause or other, committed suicide.
