Near Keinton, on the right, were some hedges and enclosures: among these were placed the musketeers and pikemen; and one of the most important posts was assigned to the regiment in which Cuthbert served.
As soon as the guards were posted, the pikemen and musketeers of Maxwell's regiment piled their arms in ranks, and were allowed to make such fires as they could.
The Pasha suddenly turned from the pursuit of the musketeers in their mad flight and fell upon Kemeny with his entire force.
Kemeny's musketeers had at that moment fired in line at the assailing horsemen and their ranks were for the instant enveloped in smoke.
Hope's musketeers fired again, but no bullets could stop the furious charge.
After a few drinks he enlisted them, somewhat confusedly, as the two missing musketeersand they found themselves wandering arm in arm from bar to bar and up and down dark alleys interviewing the heathen natives.
But the two musketeershe was with and the world they opened for him seemed to respect neither distance nor politeness, nor hold any fear for strength.
The Parliamentarian troops awaited the royalist advance just above Read Hall, hiding theirmusketeers behind the stone walls on either side of the lane.
Placing his musketeers behind the hedges, he awaited the royalist onset.
Rosworm was obliged to send 20 of his 50 musketeers as reinforcement, and the royalists were at length driven back with some loss.
The musketeers seized at the same time upon the doors of the Grand Chamber, whilst others invaded the house of the Chief-President, who was in much fear during the first hour.
Other musketeers went in parties of four to all the officers of the Parliament, and served them with the King's order, commanding them to repair to Pontoise within twice twenty-four hours.
He then stationed two gentlemen of the musketeers behind his chair, sat down and waited, a grimace of pain twisting his lips.
The musketeers conducted him through the secret staircase to the court below.
It is snowing," said the Chevalier, irrelevantly, when the musketeersrejoined him.
He caught the musketeers by the arms and dragged them toward the gate.
On the other hand, if the musketeers managed to turn him, there was the danger of his making for the main camp, and killing every one he could lay hold of in that direction.
Our march into Ukonju had instantly caused the Wara-Sura to evacuate the plain of Makara, and our approach to Katwe had caused a speedy flight of Rukara and his army of musketeers and spearmen.
I could not at a moment's notice provide for a whole household, but I will leave two or threemusketeers for their defence.
But he had given the others a lead which they were quick to follow; all sorts of missiles hurtled about us, and one of the musketeers was struck and fell backwards into the river.
Late last night a troop of musketeers had surrounded the house, and some of them had entered and laid hold of Bess, whom they had strapped behind one of their number, and carried her off to Castle Mulgrave.
The next thing I did was to send Luke out to the musketeerswith strong ale, bidding him stay to learn how they liked the brew, and anything else they chose to tell him.
A growl of angry voices was heard all over the room, and, a tumult might have happened, but, at some signal which I did not perceive, a score musketeers entered by the door behind the assemblage.
Never had the musketeers of Italy--for they all belonged to Spinola's famous Sicilian Legion--behaved so badly.
The musketeers had spread themselves all along the edge of the forest, and had learned by experience to keep close to their cover.
The musketeers fired for half an hour without making the least impression.
The landing party detached by Cook numbered forty men; and one of the musketeers was ordered to show the two champions the folly of resistance, by lodging a charge of small shot in their legs.
The Royalists shouted, but their triumph was short-lived, for the bullets of the musketeerskilled them both, and their comrades took to their heels.
Musketeers were placed at each window--with others behind them--and every possible precaution for the defence of the place was taken by Corporal Lightbound.
Take with thee a score of musketeers on whom thou canst best rely.
Caught as in a trap, it seemed as if the unfortunate Royalists must all be slaughtered, but turning from the pikemen, Colonel Legge charged the musketeers with a fury that proved irresistible.
His brow had grown very dark as he listened to Jane's imprudent speech, but he repressed his wrath, and a seasonable interruption was offered by the arrival of another party of musketeers under the command of Cornet Hardiman.
Their horses were brought over in a similar conveyance, under the charge of Careless; and in a third boat came half a dozen musketeers of the guard, who did not even dismount as they were ferried across the river.
As they turned back, the musketeers galloped after them, and fired a few shots--luckily without effect.
Keep guard upon thy tongue, or I will not answer for thy safety," said the commandant, checking the musketeers behind him, who were preparing to give fire.
Half a dozen musketeers in their steel caps, buff coats, and bandileers, were standing behind him.
The count having been shot in the Bartholomew slaughter, Valentina married Raoul [Rawl] her first love, but both were killed by a party of musketeerscommanded by the governor of the Louvre.
Nevers being slain in the Bartholomew Massacre, Raoul marries Valentina, but scarcely is the ceremony over when both are shot by the musketeers under the command of St. Bris.
And, as De Launay called to the musketeers to cease, Bassompierre recognized the cavalier.
The entire guard of the Prime-Minister were under arms; his four companies of musketeers and gens d'armes were ranged in a line upon the vast staircases and at the entrance of the long galleries of the Palais-Cardinal.
At last the Dutchmen decided to send a party on shore to get fresh water, and, although the natives seemed to be so friendly, they took the precaution of adding a number of musketeers to defend the watering party.
Have you arrested the man who ordered your musketeers to fire upon us?
Without a check he reached the summit of the breach and leaped out upon a body of musketeers drawn up to resist the stormers.
He had but four pikes and a couple of musketeers at his back, but without a moment's hesitation he hurled himself at the dark mass in front of him.
Seizing every point of vantage on his own bank, he placed his musketeers with such skill that the Irish could neither abandon nor reinforce their intrenchments.
The prince at once ordered the English and French to assault, and Monk himself was told off to lead a forlorn hope of twenty musketeers and ten pikes.
Small squadrons of horse were interspersed among the divisions of the infantry, and troops of musketeers placed here and there among the cavalry.
This he not long afterwards obtained, and eventually rose to be captain of the company of Musketeers of the Guard and to be governor of the district of Foix.
Then the cannon placed on the bastion fired a salvo, after which the thousand Musketeers who lined the barriers fired another, a very beautiful one.
Nevertheless, Monsieur de Treville's company of Musketeers alone cannot maintain a war against the cardinal, who disposes of the forces of all France, and before whom the queen is without power and the king without will.
Treville announced this good news to the three Musketeers and d'Artagnan, inviting all four to breakfast with him next morning.
The cardinal alighted; the three Musketeers did likewise.
Besides, he wore the uniform of the Guards, which next to that of the Musketeerswas most admired by the ladies.
Ten paces from the door the cardinal made a sign to his esquire and the three Musketeers to halt.
Provincial diffidence, that slight varnish, the ephemeral flower, that down of the peach, had evaporated to the winds through the little orthodox counsels which the three Musketeers gave their friend.
Let each of us wait at a gate of the palace with three Musketeers behind him; if we see a close carriage, at all suspicious in appearance, come out, let us fall upon it.
At the first sound of the morning trumpet the friends separated; the Musketeers hastening to the hotel of M.
They were clapp'd into three Coaches, each guarded by eight Musketeers and an Officer, and carried to Places which the Court had appointed; and at the same time the Papers of the two former were seiz'd.
Sergeant Blick was determined that, as far as in him lay, his own captain of musketeers should make a comely gallant show before the Emperor.
We are going to recommend his Imperial Majesty to cancel your commission in his musketeers and appoint you to the command of a new regiment of light horse!
I present to you the youngest Colonel of Musketeers in the Imperial armies, Mr Nigel Charteris, who has had the honour and the peril of bearing Count Tilly's despatches from Magdeburg!
When the door of the dead man's chamber closed and the musketeers stood once more to command he bade them make ready their weapons.
The two musketeers lifted her as if she had weighed but a few pounds, and tramped towards the door.
Clambering over the barrier of ruins, a half company of musketeersfollowed in loose order, expectant of more plunder.
It is curious all the same that Count Tilly should send merely verbal messages by the mouth of a captain of musketeers to the Emperor.
They were quite sure about the musketeers and Tilly's captain.
It was a small brigade, comprising three regiments ofmusketeers and two batteries of ten pieces each.
Then Nigel led down files of musketeers from the entrenchment and disposed them along the banks to scare away the workers, but the enemy did likewise, and so harassed the musketeers that few of their shots reached a mark at all.
And from the intervals of the regiments of musketeers came the steady cannon shots, well aimed and low, making little lanes of fallen horses and men in Pappenheim's cavalry.
He longed for the moment when he could lead down his musketeers and pikemen to the crash of the charge.
Again and again Hildebrand and Nigel charged with their rough-riders, who were no cowards, meeting alike musketeers and pikemen and even Horn's cuirassiers.
He could not even exercise his musketeers without the Gazette's issuing an extra leaf upon the "admiration of all spectators.
They said likewise that the Hollanders had been three times at their port, and had left them four musketeers with whose assistance they had made war upon their enemies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musketeers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
