It was the voice, not the face, that the tall trooper recognized.
A trooper was silently making down the bedding of the other officers.
To-day it paid casual allegiance to a Canadian, nominally a sergeant, actually a trooper of Irregular Horse, discovered convalescent in Naauwport Hospital, and forthwith employed on odd jobs.
You're right as hell," said the trooper who stood by Neal.
The broken door, the fragments of the wrecked pulpit, and the figure of the dead trooper swinging from the branch on which he had been hanged were left as witnesses of the Government's methods of keeping the peace in Ireland.
The man did as he was bidden, and reported that the trooper whom Maurice had stunned was still alive.
Lord Dunseveric was left alone in the meeting-house save for the man who held the torch and the trooper who lay unconscious on the floor.
He even managed to shift the responsibility for the hanging of the trooper from Lord Dunseveric's shoulders to Neal's.
Once, twice, thrice, as the trooper strove to raise himself, his head was dashed down on the hard earthen floor of the meeting-house.
She had fine eyes, and was not too proud to use them in a very delightful manner even when the man before her was no more than a trooper in a company of yeomen.
A trooper to whom he had been whispering dismounted, and, leaving the dusty road, stole forward under cover of the trees and undergrowth.
The rebels had opened point-blank upon the two solitary horsemen from a hidden battery, cutting the orderly's horse in two, and the trooper fell beneath his dead steed.
Finally, he gave to each trooper a war-name, forbidding him to answer to any other.
He also said, 'When you are a trooper like your father, I will come and fetch you again.
I want to be a trooper as my father was'--which he repeated by rote, of course without understanding them.
It would be something like a taste of hell for McBain to find himself reduced to the rank of trooper again, after all his years of successful service.
With obvious disgust he signed again to the trooper to replace the cover.
McBain signed to thetrooper at the rear of the wagon and the man stripped the cover off.
And as he went a trooper followed him, with orders to track him till daylight.
Sergeant McBain was abreast of him on one side, one trooper drew up his horse at the other side, while the third came to a halt at the rear of the wagon and peered into it.
The only injury sustained by thetrooper was a contusion on the inner aspect of the elbow-joint, with slight signs of contusion of the ulnar nerve.
A trooper in the Imperial Yeomanry, while advancing in the crouching attitude, was struck by a bullet from his left front, at an estimated distance of 300 yards.
The trooper was in the saddle when struck, and the penis probably somewhat coiled up.
A trooper in Brabant's Horse was wounded at Aliwal North, in March, in several places.
The trooper was sitting bolt upright on his horse at the time; both were shot and fell together.
He was taken to a small tent, thrust in, and a trooper ordered to mount guard over him.
The officer and the trooper were unable to bring their revolvers to bear, and rushed into the fight with their weapons clubbed.
Again we halted, and the trumpeter and the trooper with the white flag rode on to the farther part of the somewhat scattered village.
A couple of young staff-officers were also in attendance, with a mounted trumpeter and another trooper carrying the usual white flag on a lance.
As I looked, he threw the reins to a trooper who accompanied him, and turned to come in.
Ay, this hour or more,' the trooper answered with a grunt.
But at the last moment, as a trooper led me through the antechamber, who should appear at my side but the Waldgrave!
And while I hesitated the trooperheld up the curtain, and perforce I marched in.
It will be remembered that Cyrus put a stop to the old style of fighting at long range, and by arming men and horses with breastplates and giving each trooper a short spear he taught them to fight at close quarters.
Alick Blane's father was the trooper who shot Bradby," he said, and left us to imagine all the rest.
Game to the end," the trooper said to his comrades with an admiration he made no effort to hide.
More careful examination showed the king that the trooperhad a comrade with him, the latter being on foot, and armed with a carabine.
A stalwart trooper laid hold of his bridle, and declared he must give an account of himself.
Upon this thetrooper who had previously spoken, pointed his caliver upwards, and fired into the thick of the branches.
Though the task was by no means agreeable to them, Dick and John did not for a moment dispute his majesty's commands, but agreed to convey the trooper to a distance.
Material assistance was given by Dame Gives, who prevented the trooper from using his carabine, and now held it at his head.
Besides, that rascally trooper whom your majesty made a prisoner is with them.
He then flew to the spot where the king was engaged with Ezra, and between them they dragged the trooper back to his comrade.
If his majesty will condescend to wear a suit of my clothes," said Richard Penderel, "I'll engage that not a rebel trooper among them all will recognise him.
Not a trooper was to be seen--indeed, they did not encounter a single individual on the way to Hobbal Grange.
Colonel James was interrogating her husband, who was standing before the stern Republican leader with a trooper on either side of him.
Seeing how matters stood, and fearing lest the trooper might free himself sufficiently from the king's grasp to draw a pistol, Careless quickly descended and disarmed him--depriving him of all weapons he had about him.
How great was her terror, on entering the bedchamber, to see a trooper standing there, amid all these evidences of the king's hasty retreat.
They had reached the end of the lane by this time, and turned into the turnpike just as a trooper rode up to them coming from Elizabethtown.
A right good trooper he was, too, although in his oral narrative from which this tale is made there was no mention of that; the fact was learned from his surviving comrades.
At a right angle across the animal's neck face upward, a bullet in the brain, lay the body of Trooper Dunning, stiff as a statue, hours dead.
It often happens that a trooper retains the same animal through his entire enlistment, and it comes to be his most intimate friend.
Here and there along the line a trooper walked beside his beast, wetting, when he could, the flesh that was raw from the chafing of the saddle, especially when the rider is a novice in horsemanship.
My ideas of the dashing trooper going out to war, clad in gay uniform and curbing a curveting steed, faded into nothingness before the reality.
Corporal, the charger, understood as well as any trooper in the regiment what the crack of the whip meant, from walk, trot, to gallop.
It was not necessary for the trooper to seize the reins hanging loose on Gamechick's neck.
Colonel Fortescue was helped on Gamechick's back and a trooper dismounted and gave his horse to Broussard, the trooper mounting behind a comrade; and without asking anybody's leave, Broussard rode beside Anita.
A trooper was leading Pretty Maid away and another trooper was about to do the same for Birdseye when the black mare suddenly threw her head down and her heels up.
The trooper was leading the horses up and down, and Sergeant McGillicuddy, as escort, put both ladies into their saddles and then himself mounted.
Outside the door, a trooper was holding Gamechick by the bridle, delivering the horse to his new master.
The trooper at the same time handed the Sergeant a long whip.
The trooper had turned in his saddle to speak to the blackfellow, and Moya saw the great Government revolver at his hip.
Here Hal motioned for the soldier to return and bring the others--the door had been left open--and the trooper hurried away.
A German trooper had dived beneath the water and succeeded in grasping the collar of the boys' late prisoner and dragging him to shore, where several men were now at work trying to restore him to consciousness.
He was not popular with them at any time, and this unheard-of piece of cruelty cut every tender-hearted trooper as deeply as if it had been aimed at him personally.
In another second there was the simultaneous report of our two Winchesters and the trooper rolled from his horse.
The man he was seeking was Jim Bristow, a tall, dark private whose last words to the young trooper were: "Charley, my hour has come.
Peering through the bushes we saw a Spanish troopergesticulating to a party of cavalry in the rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trooper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
