The white-clad cuirassier from the Danube, the active and sinewy Hungarian, the tall and swarthy Croat were all there, mixed up among groups of peasant girls coming in to market with fowls and eggs.
The sword, at that time, was the only weapon of the cuirassier cavalry, excepting their pistols; but by mutual agreement these last were not to be used.
Sir Marmaduke Wade," rejoined the cuirassier captain, "you accuse me of circumlocution.
Notwithstanding the insult he had put upon them, there were numbers present ready to shout-- "Huzza for the cuirassier captain!
The whole affair had been managed so silently that, beyond the six men comprising the guard, with the corporal himself, not another cuirassier knew of what had happened.
Though Scarthe saw not this, his midday march was not performed without his meeting with an incident--one worth recording, even for its singularity; though it was otherwise of significant interest to the cuirassier captain.
Among the followers of the impetuous prince was one Richard Scarthe-- late promoted to be a colonel, and commanding a "colour" of cuirassier horse.
The cuirassier captain was not in the position to demand, or even seek it by request.
Such it was--too sad to be described: the cuirassier captain appearing as much affected as any of those who assisted at it!
During the year 1829, when bathing in the Marne, he had rescued a cuirassier from drowning.
The man was heavy and nearly as strong as Karr himself, so that it almost happened that, instead of Karr saving the cuirassier, the cuirassier drowned Karr.
The cuirassier had just caught a glimpse of me at the moment, and every eye was turned at once to where I was standing.
The cuirassier is clad in steel; His massive sword is straight and strong: But the voltigeur can charge and wheel With a step,--his bayonet is just as long.
As we passed from the gate, I stopped to question the sous-officier as to the route of the cuirassier division.
A brave cuirassier of the Guard should never say so while he has a chance left to serve his Emperor in another field of battle.
Marched with the cuirassierbrigade that passed here last night at twelve o'clock.
On the field of Montmirail I was reported to the Emperor; and for an attack on the Austrian rearguard at Melun made colonel of a cuirassierregiment on the field of battle.
A dark, bushy beard, worn cuirassier fashion, around the mouth and high on the cheeks, almost concealed his face, while in figure he had grown both taller and stouter.
Joining the first party I came up with, I asked the officer in what direction of the field I should find the cuirassier brigade.
Where the horse alone was killed, the cuirassier could be seen stripping himself of his armour with desperate haste to escape.
He was riding vehemently in the early stage of the charge, when he caught sight of the cuirassier officer carrying the eagle, with his covering men, trying to break through the mêlée and escape.
It is a curious fact that the intelligence of the coming attack was brought to Wellington by a French cuirassier officer, who deserted his colours just before it took place.
Colonel Marten says he was shot by a cuirassier who stood clear of the mêlée, coolly taking pot-shots at the English Guardsmen.
The cuirassier lifted his pistol and aimed at the centre of that indistinct form; yet his finger did not press the trigger.
A cuirassier is a cavalryman whose body is protected by a cuirass, a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from neck to girdle, and combining a breastplate and a back piece.
The patient was Colonel Jouve, once a cuirassier of the First Empire,[266-3] and now an old gentleman mad about glory and patriotism.
I found the old cuirassier stretched out on the carpet with his face bleeding and motionless as if struck by a heavy blow.
She stopped a cuirassier riding a lame horse, his own leg hastily bandaged with a piece of coloured calico.
She haunted, therefore, the heights of Bazeilles, seeking among the dead one who wore the cuirassier uniform.
It was a cuirassier regiment, and one that had seen much service; most of the sous-officiers and many of the men were decorated, and their helmets bore the haughty device of "Dix centre un!
In this way the great cuirassier became an object for my thoughts by day and my dreams by night.
With feeble anger he brushed aside the hand of a cuirassier who was trying to staunch the blood at his groin.
And as to the French, there they were in green and silver, in sky blue, in cuirassier helmets, in the zouave fez, or in any of the other ways in which they bore their chips on the shoulder.
The two youngcuirassier officers rushed in to announce that the train was in sight.
The Cuirassier rose from his seat and strode a pace forward, the gray hair bristling round his savage face like a wild-boar's at bay.
The portrait and sword were those of Guy's father; the helmet belonged to the Cuirassier who slew him.
In planting cabbages, to use the expression of the first Duc de Biron, the old cuirassier sought to divert his mind, by occupation, from dwelling on his fall.
When I think that if that cuirassier had only had the courage to let himself be killed like the rest I should still be happy at the gate of the Avonne, and that it was he that turned my life topsy-turvy, it just puts me beside myself.
To regain the lost ground the French Guard Cuirassier Regiment threw itself resolutely on the pursuers.
A cuirassier was kicked by a horse on left side of abdomen, November 24, and lost consciousness.
It was curious that the slight residuals of movement which the cuirassier could perform could be made only while he was looking at the parts he was requested to move, and were impossible with eyes closed.
The crisis of the drama was reached almost as I entered, the cuirassiercoming in with his head bound up in a bloody towel!
Of every rank, from the sous-lieutenant to the humble soldier, from every arm of the service, from the heavy cuirassier of the guard to the light and intrepid tirailleur, they were there.
At this moment the light cavalry swept past the base of the hill on which we stood, hotly followed by the French heavy cuirassier brigade.
Count Bismarck wore the uniform of a major of his cuirassier regiment comfortably unbuttoned, long riding boots, and his sword at his side.
As the cuirassier rode past with the lifeless body in his arms, a fresh young voice cried, half in fear, half in compassion: "Ah!
When the two squadrons had come near enough to the squares to charge, suddenly from behind the hill on which the battery stood, galloped the garde du corps, followed by the cuirassier guards.
Outside, lancer and cuirassier were scattered thickly on the earth.
Though numbers fell, and the square momentarily diminished, it still presented a serried line of glittering bayonets, through which lancer and cuirassier endeavoured to penetrate, but in vain.
My gravedigger plucked my sleeve and showed me where he had buried a French cuirassier who had been shot as he kept a lonely guard at the edge of a wood.
A cuirassier with his head bent upon his chest stumbled forward, leading a horse too weak and tired to bear him.
The first to discover our flight will be Otto Palvicz, the cuirassier major.
Glancing back from time to time, he allowed the cuirassier major to come near enough to make conversation possible.
Cleaving the helmet of the cuirassier major, it left a gaping wound on his skull.
Sixteen troops of light cavalry, lancers, and dragoons, two cuirassier regiments, eight batteries of cannon, and two mortar batteries crossed the RAikos above Isaszeg and descended like an avalanche on the Hungarian centre.
To-morrow we'll at it again," called out the cuirassier major.
We have two brothers Wind, in "The Cuirassier and the Horned Princess," in whom the personal character of Wind is well maintained.
It was the cuirassier who remained by the side of General D'Hubert, keeping his one eye fixed immovably on the white face of the watch he held in the palm of his hand.
The one-eyed cuirassiersaid judicially: "That cannot be refused.
General Feraud, deeply touched by this demonstration, called with visible emotion upon the one-eyed veteran cuirassier and the officer of the Chasseurs à cheval, who had left the tip of his nose in Russia.
The one-eyed cuirassier said judicially, "That cannot be refused.
General Feraud, deeply touched by this demonstration, called with visible emotion upon the one-eyed veteran cuirassierand the officer of the Chasseurs a Cheval who had left the tip of his nose in Russia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuirassier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
