And while they went on their tour of investigation the hidden Boers could not resist some sniping shots from their trenches in Port Wylie, which were only silenced by the forcible arguments of the Naval gunners on Hussar Hill.
While this was going on above, General Lyttelton was moving to the east of Chieveley round the eastern spur of Hussar Hill.
There was some trouble about water, asHussar Hill was arid and the nearest river was some miles away.
On the 14th the army moved to occupy the new position on Hussar Hill.
But we were in a vein of heroism and instead of taking to our old hussar habits, and slipping round the enemy's flanks, we determined to cut our way through them, if they had the whole cavalry of France as their appui.
A showy Turkish cloak, or robe de chambre, had superseded my laced jacket, purple pantaloons, and hussar boots.
The truth is, that nothing is more difficult in war than to catch a hussar who understands his business; and the probability was, that the chief part of them had slipped away, leaving the French to sabre each other in the dark.
The Hussar officer has a horse, which has been standing in a little lean-to shed, under saddle.
Though only just introduced, the Hussar officer is not unknown to her by name, with some repute of his heroism besides.
With astonishment, and fast gathering indignation, the Hussar officer sees the heavy barge coming bow-on for his light fishing skiff, and is thoroughly sensible of the danger; the waterman becoming aware of it at the same instant of time.
In a lull between, the Hussar officer at length takes the cigar from his lips, and calls back to them-- "You ruffians!
Shenstone knows the Hussar officer has been invited; and, however hoping or wishing it, has but little faith he will fail.
Satisfied with this explanation, the ex-Hussar says nothing further on the subject, and they continue on to the Rue Tintelleries.
At the last clause of this speech--its Conservatism due to a certain professional jealousy--the Hussarofficer cannot resist smiling.
At a glance the Hussar officer takes in the situation--the waterman as well.
In the handsome Hussar officer she beholds the typical hero of her romance reading; so much like it, that Lord Lutestring has long ago gone out of her thoughts--passed from her memory as though he had been but a musical sound.
It was he who had acted as the go-between for her and the handsomehussar of the guards.
And in Berlin she favoured a handsome, extremely elegant hussar of the Guards, who had flirted with her from his seat at the next table in an aristocratic restaurant.
Grandfather Fragini, impelled by the hysterical call of the Hussar spirit, also sprang up, waving his hat and trembling and swaying with the emotion that racked his old body.
With the shadows gathering he slipped back to grandfather's side, and after it was quite dark he said that it was time for the old Hussar to mount his fiery steed.
Why, if anyHussar had spoken of funerals we'd called him white-livered, that's what we would!
The thumping of an old man's heart with the youth of a Hussar had been too much for it.
A great honor has been conferred upon the corps through the fact that riding at the head of one of his regiments [13th Hessian Hussar Regiment] his Majesty, King Humbert of Italy, has led it before us.
I am Ernest, the hussar officer, your travelling companion.
The Hussar tried to give me the impression that the woman had fallen a victim to his manly charms and had thereby been induced to turn traitor to her country.
From what we have since learned of Russian conditions, it seems very probable that, when the Hussar got to Moscow, he hunted up the circle of German spies who were operating there, reported for duty, and was taken care of.
A day or two later the sentinel at the officers' prison was amazed to see a Hungarian Hussar come nonchalantly up the road and ask to be let into prison.
When the local train left that night the Hussar was one of the passengers.
Why," said the Hussar blindly, "I have always wanted to see these wonderful mountains, so I just went out for a day or two to see the scenery.
The Hussar was ordered for a time into solitary confinement.
God knows it is so," exclaimed an hussar officer, drawing his long moustache through his fingers; "I cannot comprehend why we have a general staff only to arrange such marches as we have made.
The beginning of the end had come on 13th February, when General Buller's army of relief had opened the attack on Hussar Hill.
Yet the aim was so accurate that one shell fell between two hussar squadrons and another just in rear of a battery, but without hitting man, horse, or gun.
As one Hussar was being carried on a stretcher, a young Boer jeered at him, using epithets that were so coarse and cowardly that they roused the ire of a bearded veteran who probably fought against our troops nineteen years ago.
All doubts were removed when a Prussian hussar officer, captured by Marbot's vedettes near Lasne, was brought to Napoleon.
A hussar came up to the palace; it was a lieutenant sent by Charny who had gone on towards Paris to get the news.
But this was no spite against the family, for it was noticed that she paid special attention to young Valence Charny, the hussar who had been given her Austrian rosette at the officers' dinner.
But his apprehension was still greater when he saw his brother Valence, the hussar lieutenant, approach the Queen and speak to her when encouraged by a smile.
Tramping along the teeming Bowery and across the footway of the mighty bridge, the ex-hussar enjoyed to the full the exultation of feeling money in his pocket once more.
And if the hussar took me into the Palace, it was now the Secretary that took me out again.
On the flanks the 13th Hussars moved out to Springfield and Thorneycroft's men deployed in the direction of Hlangwane, advancing to Hussar Hill.
But suddenly Delaherche descried a French officer climbing the steep path up the flank of la Marfee; he was a general, wearing a blue tunic, mounted on a black horse, and preceded by a hussar bearing a white flag.
Your guard-hussar uniform has been reserved for you, at the suggestion of the Colonel.
On one of the beds Maurice saw the hussar uniform.
You have something on your mind," said Maurice, pulling off his hussar jacket and kicking it across the room.
There are several newhussar uniforms in the armory.
Many of the guests were to remain in the castle during the night; and the gallant hussar was informed that one of them must occupy a room reputed to be haunted, and was asked if he had any objections to accepting the room for himself.
The music was artistic, rich, and soothing, and the hussar listened for a time, highly entertained.
Had thehussar held stoutly to his own sensible philosophy, that he had no occasion to fear the spirits of the invisible world, nothing serious would have ensued.
I was proud of my handsome hussar officer, and looked forward with satisfaction to the time when he would rise to the rank of major, colonel, even general.
The hussar was at all times identified with his horse, he shared his bed and his board, and their movements were always regulated by the importance of their mission.
He also describes how his wife led her Hussar regiment past the King.
The hussar won, and they went off for their dinner.
I tell you that he's that very same hussar duellist,--let me see, the famous Turbin.
But I should like to see what sort of a man thishussar is,--whether he is brunet or blondin.
The hussar asks,-- "Where is the gentleman who was dining with me?
Why did you say," she inquired, "that you could have had as much happiness as a hussar riding-master?
And she looked ironically at Demeter's hussar uniform.
For as far as I can see I could have had as much luck as a hussar riding-master, but I don't regret having been clumsy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hussar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
