Marie Antoinette received these first visits leaning upon her husband, with her handkerchief held to her eyes; the carriages drove up, the guards andequerries were on horseback.
On this signal the Body Guards, pages, and equerries mounted on horseback, and all was ready for setting off.
The equerries led by the reins the duke's chargers, vigorous horses, covered and caparisoned in iron, carrying pendent from their saddles the several pieces of their master's armor.
After the equerries came, led by black slaves taken from the Saracens, the mules and camels that were laden with the baggage and provisions of the duke.
Eberhard the Tricky, one of the equerries of the seigneur of Plouernel, awaited his master outside of the retreat of Azenor, in company with Thiebold, justiciary provost of the seigniory.
The cup-bearers and equerries of the other seigneurs likewise attended the table.
The Queen permitted the officers of the Body Guards and the equerries of the King and Princes to be present at the plays.
Behind this brilliant company, stood the pages and equerries of the seigneur carrying his colors.
The equerries are gloomy and uncommunicative, though it is vaguely understood that the King is much worse, and that the Queen herself has been taken ill.
The Grand Equerry and the other Equerries wore a uniform of dark blue, embroidered in silver.
I shall therefore (unless I hear from you to the contrary) send one of my equerries and two carriages to the Tower on Thursday.
When the Government was changed in 1830, the principal posts of the Household were placed at the disposal of Lord Grey, but the Grooms and Equerries were not removed.
When I became Prime Minister again in 1835, none of the Grooms or Equerries were removed because none of them were in Parliament.
Every knight was followed by three horses--the first ridden by a page in armour like his own, the two others by equerrieswho were called lateral auxiliaries, because in a fray they fought to right and left of their chief.
But no sooner had they finished their first bows and curtseys than a slight breeze sprung up, and began to sway the princess, whose equerries had retired out of respect.
At length it was decided that she was never to go out in a wind, and in order to make matters surer still the equerries each held the end of a string which was fastened to her waist.
How the wife of one of the King's Equerries surprised her husband muffled in the hood of their servant-maid, and bolting meal in her stead.
Equerries and bourgeois deputations from the town brought up the rear of the train, which soon was pressed upon from all sides by so compact a mass that for a moment Joan Darc's steed could not move a step.
Immediately in front of the King was the Royal escort of Princes and Equerries with a body of Colonial and Indian troops.
General, Viscount Bridport and General the Duke of Grafton were appointed Honorary Equerries and Major-Generals Sir Henry P.
Sir Fleetwood Edwards and Sir Arthur Bigge as Extra Equerries to His Majesty.
Prince Herman and the equerries follow them up the colossal staircase, through the hedge of flunkeys, who stand motionless with fixed eyes that do not seem to see.
None of the workpeople had saluted; the equerriesdoubted whether they had recognized the crown-prince.
When the first dawn pales over the sky, which begins in the distance to assume tints of rose and grey, faint opal and mother-of-pearl, Othomar and Herman and the equerries emerge on the steps of the church.
Many equerries and aides-de-camp were seen bowing to their partners, the ladies trembling as they rose.
When she reflected that, in the event of Othomar's being wounded, the princes and the equerrieswould have returned at once, she became more tranquil and waited patiently.
The ladies wore simple evening-frocks; the king was in dress-clothes, the younger princes and equerries in dinner-jackets.
At daybreak, three equerries waited for him at the foot of the steps; and though the old monk leaned out of the dormer-window and made signs to him to return, Julian would not look around.
The equerries diverted themselves every day with javelins and Julian soon excelled in the practice.
At the same hour the equerries and women in waiting had their little dinner, and cackled over their tea.
They scaredequerries and ladies, frightened the modest little circle, with their coarse spirits and loud talk.
Some equerries were shaken from their steeds and those standing fell on their knees on the grass, for it is no light matter when siege-guns roar!
Thou hast promised the doge to go thither with one thousand svats, but why shouldest thou not take two thousand chosen heroes and equerries with thee?
The equerries gave the horses barley, but none did they give to Koulash.
One morning Ivan noticed Captain Yovan, the bride's leader, pacing sadly the ramparts of the castle, and casting frequent glances at the spearmen, equerries and standards in the encampment below.
Mischievous looking pages and jesting equerries have also put in an appearance at this session of the Court of Love.
The count's equerries fall upon Goose-Skin and pinion him despite his violent resistance.
Karvel hastens to the side of Montfort, who lies unconscious on the couch, and seeks to stop the flow of blood while one of the equerries breaks precipitately into the room crying: "Seigneur!
One of the count's equerries hastens to bring a chair for his master, the other mounts guard at the door of the contiguous apartment where Karvel the Perfect is kept a prisoner.
The Perfect hesitates to obey the count; the latter rings a bell that lies near him and says to one of the equerries who answer the call).
Montfort turns to one of his equerries and says: "Let the other heretic in.
After a few moments, two soldiers and two equerries came to tell the duke that his hour had come.
At these words, one of the equerries plunged his sword into his breast, and the other cut his head off with a knife, and his corpse was thrown over the balcony into the garden where Andre's body had lain for three days unburied.
The equerriesholding the Gobignon and crusader banners rolled them up to take them through the forest.
Equerries took turns riding with the banner according to a roster Simon himself had written.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equerries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
