Guardsmen
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The Major and I were raising his head in the hope that some flutter of life might remain, when I heard a well-remembered voice at my side, and there was de Lissac leaning upon his elbow among a litter of dead
guardsmen
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More example sentences with word guardsmen
But he has deliberately fanned the flames by insulting dark-skinned immigrants as criminals and calling armed white supremacists decent, by dismissing angry black protesters as “thugs,” and encouraging militiamen, guardsmen, and policemen to do their worst, or as he put it with a snarl: “Please don’t be too nice.”
It was half burned down, and shattered with balls, and ten thousand men were hammering at the gates; but four hundred
guardsmen
held it in the morning and two hundred held it in the evening, and no French foot was ever set within its threshold.
There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two
guardsmen
who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.
A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side.
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