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As we stood there, regiment after regiment and brigade after brigade took position on the ridge, and ere the sun had set we lay in a line of over sixty thousand men, blocking Napoleon's way to Brussels.
I had expected to see half that regiment of horse lying on the ground; but whether it was that their breastplates had shielded them, or whether, being young and a little shaken at their coming, we had fired high, our volley had done no very great harm.
Then they broke through a hedge, and coming on a regiment of Hanoverians who were in line, they treated them as they would have treated us if we had not been so quick, and cut them to pieces in an instant.
I do not believe that a hundred men of that regiment were left alive; and the Frenchmen came back across our front, shouting at us and waving their weapons, which were crimson down to the hilts.
Ensign Samson, who was the youngest subaltern in the regiment, ran out from the square and pulled down the hand-spike; but quick as a jack after a minnow, a lancer came flying over the ridge, and he made such a thrust from behind that not only his point but his pennon too came out between the second and third buttons of the lad's tunic.
This gave us time to breathe, and we wanted it too, for the regiment had been melting away like an icicle in the sun.
On the other hand, Hougoumont, a blood-soaked ruin, was still ours, and every British regiment was firm; though, to tell the honest truth, as a man is bound to do, there were a sprinkling of red coats among the blue ones who made for the rear.
But these were lads and stragglers, the faint hearts that are found everywhere, and I say again that no regiment flinched.
My face felt as if a red-hot iron had been laid across it; but I had the use of my limbs, so jumping over the litter of dead and mangled men, I scampered after my regiment, and fell in upon the right flank.
I gave a start at that, for what with the rush and the hunger and the weariness I had never given a thought to my friend since the time that he had rushed at the French Guards with the whole regiment at his heels.
I could bring the surgeon of our regiment to you.""My dear Jock, I have not been giving and taking wounds this fifteen years without knowing when one has come home.
He rejoined his regiment, and was never seen again at Vernon, being killed a few years later in Africa.
At first he imagined some regiment of soldiers was passing that way, and to see them he spurred Rocinante and mounted the hill.
But can we wonder that, with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her (for my father lived only a few months after their marriage, and I was with my regiment in the East Indies) she should fall?
He's trying to equip a new regiment of cavalry for the service of the Indian Government, and he's quarrelled with his Political Resident.
But his majesty’s decision is always necessary; and I inform you with regret that no one becomes a Musketeer without the preliminary ordeal of several campaigns, certain brilliant actions, or a service of two years in some other regiment less favored than ours."
Porthos made a thousand flourishes, asking Bicarat what o’clock it could be, and offering him his compliments upon his brother’s having just obtained a company in the regiment of Navarre; but, jest as he might, he gained nothing.
"I go," said he; "I go at once.""How, you will go!" said Mme. Bonacieux; "and your regiment, your captain?""By my soul, you had made me forget all that, dear Constance!
The regiment of the Guards was recruited among the first gentlemen of the kingdom; and d’Artagnan, followed by a lackey, and traveling with four magnificent horses, despite the simplicity of his uniform, could not fail to make a sensation.
They were therefore much astonished and delighted in the regiment when they saw the young man come back safe and sound.
"I am acquainted with it; before we left Villeroy I settled the accounts of the regiment."
"You see, they are going to send a whole regiment against us," said Athos.
"You don’t think of holding out against a whole regiment, do you?" said Porthos.
Why did you talk of a regiment, Athos?
Planchet obtained from Rochefort the rank of sergeant in the Piedmont regiment.
What am I?Colonel of a damned dragoon regiment under the orders of my own younger brother.
"Why, George," cried my uncle, "I thought you were with your regiment."
vot told the old Dook of Cumberland that all he vanted vas to fight the King o' Proosia's guard, day by day, year in, year out, until 'e 'ad worked out the whole regiment of 'em--and the smallest of 'em six foot long.
But I both could and would; and then, when his life had been blasted, and he had been hounded from his regiment and from his clubs, it would be time, perhaps, for me to deal in some other way with him."
At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood; it was to remain the whole winter, and Meryton was the headquarters.
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