The yagers instantly made prisoners of the undisciplined water guards, and a messenger was immediately despatched to Mrs. Babcock, then living below, in the parsonage, for a vehicle to remove the wounded officer.
As to each force, some were armed with sabres and cavalry pistols, but most, being mounted yagers of Van Wrumb's battalion, with rifles.
The courier had left the advanced guard about noonday, with an escort of four hundred of the Black Yagers from the Imperial Guard, and two hundred of Papenheim's Dragoons, at Waldenhausen, on the very brink of the forest.
At this moment one of the yagers protested that he had seen a man's hat and face rise above a thicket of bushes, apparently not more than a hundred and fifty yards from their own position.
Half a dozen yagers and an officer at length presented themselves; but the landlord had disappeared, she knew not in what direction.
At the Middle Ferry was the 71st Regiment, and a body of Yagers were at the Point House, opposite Gloucester.
The words had hardly escaped from his mouth, when the three yagers almost simultaneously belched forth their contents.
And the next minute the Yagers were running in and out, setting fire to the curtains and lighting bundles of hay in every room.
Judge, give them a keg of brandy; the Major will permit it; let the bold yagers have a drink!
But you see, Major, we are drinking here and the yagers are freezing there in the yard.
More yagers arrived, fell into disorder, and knocked against one another; the gentry in the tumult could not cut and slash; the yagers could not shoot, for they were fighting hand to hand.
Suffice it to say, that things came to pass as Rykov had foreseen; the yagers in the crowd yielded to the power of their foes.
While they were thus smiting the company of yagersfrom the front, the Seneschal abandoned the battlefield and went into the garden.
The Dobrzynskis, seeing how a Podhajski was prancing before the line of yagers and slashing them with his scythe, shouted joyfully: “Long live the Podhajskis!
The Count’s steed fell, and the Count with it; with a cry the Warden ran to the rescue, for he saw that the yagers had aimed at the last of the Horeszkos—though in the female line.
With demoniacal yells they came on once more, and once more the yagers opened, and then were thrown aside for the rapidly firing revolvers which did fearful execution.
We can't let those yagersand Greens take a cannon as easily as that!
Donop's grenadiers andyagers led, and immediately after them followed the veteran De Heister at the head of the brigades.
The field-pieces and Yagers came into action at the buckwheat field, and here a stubborn contest ensued for about an hour and a half.
At this point Manasseh's battalion was ordered to hold the hill while the yagers were pushed farther forward.
A high terrace facing the hill had been converted by the enemy into a fortress, which commanded the cemetery, and which the yagers were now pressing forward to take.
At length a loud scornful laugh, from Swartboy, accompanying a series of rather rough phrases, directed the attention of the young yagersupon the Kaffir.
On rode the young yagers directly in the wake of their guide.
Next morning, by break of day, our yagers were astir, and the first object upon which they rested their eyes was the river.
To these and other tales of lions did the young yagers listen as they sat around the blazing camp-fire.
But the young yagers did not remain constantly by the camp during all the intervening time.
There were three individuals in this group--three quadrupeds of a kind that had not been seen by the young yagers since the setting out of their expedition.
The bank upon which the yagers had encamped was about five or six feet above the surface of the water, as it now stood.
The animal which our yagers saw, or its species, to speak more properly, was the representative of that family in South Africa.
Many a laugh had the six young yagers at Arend's solitary adventure.
The yagers held their bridles firm, and sat watching with breathless interest.
Our young yagers were very much interested in these mountain forms, so varied and fantastic.
Next morning the young yagers slept late--because they had nothing particular to do.
These, however, are the work of men, while that upon which our yagers gazed looked as though giants had erected it.
It would not have been as great a deprivation to the young yagers to have gone without bread, as it would to you, boy reader.
One particular body of the subsidiary troops was included in this arrange ment, and the Hessian yagers were transformed into a corps of heavy and inactive horse.
Getting beyond the range of the yagers the Indians formed in a large circle, tethered their ponies, and disposed themselves for a siege, with the evident intention of starving out the brave trio.
Simcoe, with a handful of yagers and Queen's Rangers, was detached for the purpose of recovering the wagons.
He pointed over the treetops that they had now risen above to where columns of Royal Highlanders and Hessian Yagers were hastening forward at double-quick.
They were under the immediate direction of M'Pherson and Mercer, and terribly galled the Yagers who garrisoned the point assailed, yet without driving them from their position.
Some Yagers were stationed at the "Point House" (see map on page 298), opposite Gloucester.
A party of yagers passing through a gully behind an orchard, got upon the flank of the patrols, and fired with such effect as to cause their retreat to an eminence in their rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
