Out along the bluffs strung the troopers to cover the heroes who had held the neck, while they destroyed the bridge.
He penetrated deeply into the interior not long since to see these same troopers do a line of heroics, with a band of Bannocks to support the role.
Gunner Sims of the Royal Navy, and Lieutenant Fitzgerald, 11th Hussars, who met their enemies face to face, the irregular troopers were not slow to take their part in fighting at close quarters.
We have often heard from Kaffirs about ubiquitous troopers who were described as wearing sakkabulu feathers in their hats and carrying assegais.
Two troopers came first, trotting carelessly along, laughing and smoking.
A Russian officer took his place by the side of the Swede, and an escort of twenty troopers rode behind them, as they trotted out through the gate of the convent.
The lieutenant commanding the escort of twenty troopers rode up to him, as he joined the party.
A hundred yards behind came the main body, four troopers first, then the lieutenant and Sir Marmaduke, followed by the other six troopers.
The company fell out again, and, in a quarter of an hour, they and the troopers breakfasted.
Later three men were coming to my store to buy some things; the State Troopers ran their horses right on them and chased them home.
When on a mission of terrorism the first thing the State Troopers do is to get their horses onto the sidewalks, the better to ride down the pedestrians.
The troopers who remarked his strange figure perched above them, looked on indifferently, neither heeding nor understanding.
The troop-horses, whose bits he had heard jingling a few minutes before, were gone; the troopers had melted into thin air!
It will not be a handful of disbanded troopers will scatter it.
Then, finding that the mass of his brigade had been cut off from crossing, the Confederate general detached a dozen men to take the prisoners south while he himself with most of the troopers with him recrossed to where danger beckoned.
With reloaded carbines, the troopers charged, burst open the barred door, and rushed into the rickety shed.
His opinion was confirmed as the troopers approached nearer, and finally halted on the road beneath the Tower; while their commanding officer, leaving them to breathe and refresh their horses, hastily rode up the hill.
One or two who had carabines dismounted, and, taking a leisurely and deliberate aim at the foremost rank of the regiment, discharged their pieces, by which two troopers were wounded, one severely.
It was easy to see that there were a few roundheaded troopers amongst them, the true spawn of the old Covenant.
The troopers ceased firing at him accordingly, and awaited his return, two of them riding a little way into the river to seize and disarm him.
On hearing Lord Evandale's voice, he instantly and gladly admitted him, and that nobleman arrived among the mutinous troopers like a man dropped from the clouds.
In the rear of these troopers came the main body of the prisoners, at the head of whom were some of their leaders, who were treated with every circumstance of inventive mockery and insult.
Some rose to resist, and some to escape; the doors and windows were forced at once, and the red coats of the troopers appeared in the apartment.
Inglis and his troopers look ower their shouthers very aften, as if they liked the road ahint them better than the road afore.
In this mood, several troopers set spurs to their horses and fled outright, and the others became so unsteady in their movements and formations, that their officers every moment feared they would follow the same example.
Thus saying, he walked slowly out of the court, leaving Smeaton and Van Noost to the tender mercies of Captain Smallpiece, who beckoned up his troopers to assist in the removal of the prisoners.
Then came a period of suspense; but it did not last very long; for, at the end of five or six minutes, the approach of the trooperswas intimated by the noise of their horses upon the terrace.
Captain Cole placed one of them before him on the saddle, and the troopers followed his example.
I accompanied Captain Stanton, and Captain Cole, who commanded the squadron and was also Reuter's correspondent, with a couple of troopers to the top of the pass.
For the first six miles the road lay through a network of deep ravines, through which the troopers picked their way very carefully.
Looking back, I could see the troopers already hastening in pursuit, but we were out of the race.
Under the silvery rays nine new-made graves are ranked along the turf, guarded by troopers whose steeds are browsing close at hand.
No such head-gear would our troopers suffer in the days when General Crook led them through the cañons and deserts of that inhospitable Territory.
Sixty sunburned, dust-covered troopersride grimly on, following the lead of a tall soldier whose kind brown eyes peer anxiously from under his scouting-hat.
Jake, with a rifle-bullet through his shoulder, was grinning pale gratification at the troopers who came in, and then there was a moment's silence as the captain entered.
The lieutenant, who with two or three troopers was scouting far in advance, halted at the crest of a high ridge over which the road climbs, and dismounted his little party for a brief rest while he went up ahead to reconnoitre.
The air at this height, though rare, is keen and exhilarating, and one needs no second look at the troopers to see how bright are their eyes and how nimble and elastic is the pace of their steeds.
The troopers at the stable say ye found Captain Boyde.
Would to God the troopers who lie in wait for me would go after him!
The two troopers were already stretched at full length on the floor, their feet to the fire, while the sergeant sat by the table, with a pitcher of small beer and a pipe to solace his particular hours of guard mount over the prisoner.
I'll warrant he's not so near to death's door but he can bear one-half the ride of our poor starved troopers and beasts.
I would that I could give you into your father's charge first, for I fear to leave you alone when these troopers may come.
His troopers had released their victim, and stood panting in a line, while the young man leaned against the wall, brushing the dust from his black coat, and looking from his rescuer to his antagonists.
At his call a dozen more troopers came hurrying down the stairs, while the three upon the landing advanced upon their former antagonist.
The conflict was severe, and the troopers fell thick and fast, but their long, heavy swords, cut through bone as well as flesh.
The plain was filled with the vast multitude; retreat was impossible, and the troopers came still pouring in, to join their comrades already prepared for the attack.
It was just at the close of the hour before dawn that the squad of troopers who rode a dozen rods before the columns, heard a cry from the dark ahead.
In a moment two troopers were galloping out of the Residency Square and into the city.
He was still chuckling over his victory when an orderly and two troopersarrived with a riderless horse, bearing the command of Colonel Cumner for the beggar to appear at once at the Palace.
He told Cumner's Son that his face was as that of one who had lain in a grave, and he called aloud in a blustering voice, and beckoned for troopers to come.
I think the sight of those horrible troopers would do more to cure its admirers than all the orators of the Peace Society could do in a twelve-month!
The poor tired horses were munching the forage with which the muddy ground was strewn; and the troopers sprawled listlessly about, smoking their short pipes, and mending their torn costume or shattered accoutrements.
Some score of troopers heard his fierce cry for help, and fell upon the would-be murderers, for Mrs. Craigie and her children were alone in the bungalow.
Several men were absent without leave, and he attributed this unusual occurrence to the severe measures the colonel had taken when certain troopers refused to use the cartridges supplied for the new Enfield rifle.
All day long the troopers of the 3d Cavalry nursed their wrath at the fate of their comrades who had refused to handle the suspected cartridges.
It was hard to tell what hue and cry might be raised by the troopers against whom the guards had closed the Lahore Gate.
Yes, though some of our troopers may turn up any minute.
Ripley reached the main guard, just within the gate, when some troopers of the 3d rode up.
Struck with a sudden fear, the white-coated troopers reined in their horses.
Throw these troopers into the courtyard," she commanded.
They helped Akhab Khan, Chumru, and the two troopers to rig a pair of long sweeps, and prepared to guide the budgerow to the landing-place.
Savage troopers urged their horses into the water and slashed cowering women with their sabers.
He told thetroopers and his servant to follow with the horses as quietly as possible and led the way towards the budgerow.
By the side of it Virginia and Maude, enchanted, beheld Captain Colfax shouting his orders while his troopers dragged the canvas from the wagons, and staggered under it to the line.
As if by common consent the heads of the troopers are uncovered before her.
The uniform of the troopers was of plain, dark green cloth and they were well and sensibly equipped.
The stricken dragoman could even then seetroopers getting into their saddles.
As they drew nearer they saw that the inky streak was composed of cavalry, the troopers standing at their bridles.
Sunday morning his body, together with those ofTroopers Whitehouse, Gordon, and Parsons, was accorded a military funeral.
This force consisted of a troop of the Africander Corps under Captain Pittendrigh, a few of Grey's Scouts, and some men of K troop under Captain Reid; about sixty troopers all told, with a Maxim gun in charge of Lieutenant Biscoe.
The troopers tried to force open the door, but the bolt resisted their efforts.
While gazing in this direction he noticed two troopers at the foot of the hill, who had evidently just crossed over from the quay, but they did not excite his apprehension.
However, nothing occurred, and in the morning it was ascertained that the troopers had departed.
So near were the troopers that the king could hear their shouts, announcing that they felt certain of finding him at Dorchester.
As they approached the village, two mounted troopers barred the road, and ordered the supposed groom to halt and give an account of himself.
They had begun to dismiss their fears, when, on a sudden, the greatest consternation was caused by the appearance of a detachment of troopers advancing towards them.
The troopers then stepped into the kitchen, and the cook having set the jack going again, asked them what they wanted.
Later on in the day, the troopers marched off for Yeovil, where they meant to pass the night.
Meantime, the officer in command of the detachment had come to the determination of arresting Dame Gives and her supposed servant, and he was about to send a guard with them to Northleach, when the two troopers came up.
Meanwhile, the troopers had gained the summit of the hill, and concealed themselves behind the watch-tower.
No more troopers appeared, for ever since Juliana's conversion, Mr. Meldrum had thrown a protecting wing over the house.
The troopers were valiant trencher-men, whatever else they were, and promptly assaulted the meat-pie fort, as from its size and shape it deserved to be called.
I want some of those horses in your pasture to mount my troop of dragoons," and going oat of the house he ordered the half-score of troopers without to dismount and capture the horses in the meadow.
The troopers threatened to shoot them, but the cornet forbade it, and ordered the squire to send them to head-quarters during the day--a command which he declined to obey.
Every other thought was instantly cast aside before the feeling of superior duty; and calling to some of his troopers who were near to follow, he galloped on, and cleft his way like a thunderbolt into the press around the king.
He was tied upon his horse, and the troopers brought him up pistol in hand.
Sergeant Clancey and half a dozen troopers jerked at their bridles.
As Mrs. Bolland dragged Miss Cahill into view of the assembled troopers Ranson pulled his father-in-law into a far corner of the room.
We'll get twenty troopers after him before he can go a half mile.
Then a voice, and the coach was surrounded by dust-covered troopers and horses breathing heavily.
The four troopers fell in in rear of Lieutenant Crosby and their prisoner.
Hunk Smith surveyed the troopers dismally and shook his head.
A pretty miss of sixteen, with a peach-like bloom in her cheeks, might be seen flitting here and there among the bearded troopers with a tray bearing goblets of milk.
The troopers were tired, hungry, and thirsty; and, since from every doorway was offered a boundless hospitality, the column came to a halt.
As the Union troopers neared the bridge it was evidently a race for life and liberty, for they were outnumbered ten to one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troopers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
