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Trooper in sentence

178 examples of Trooper in a sentence

The trooper had supplied the wants of nature to his perfect satisfaction; and, perhaps, with the exception of Washington and his immediate commander, there was no mortal whose displeasure he regarded a tittle.
"I spoke as duty to my sovereign prompted; but do you not call the loss of a commander a misfortune to a party?""It certainly may be so," said the trooper, with emphasis.
"It is a misfortune that our mess has no such wine as this," interrupted the trooper.
In such cases, the lights - " the surgeon accidentally caught the eye of the trooper and he paused.
"More is the pity," cried the trooper, "for next to eating, the nourishment could not be more innocently applied."
It was the approach of this humble procession that arrested the movements of the trooper and his comrade.
The trooper slowly lifted his cap, and continued uncovered until Mr. Wharton and his son had moved by, when, accompanied by the surgeon, he rode leisurely in the rear, maintaining an inflexible silence.
"In some countries the body is exposed to be devoured by wild beasts; in others it is suspended in the air to exhale its substance in the manner of decomposition; in other regions it is consumed on the funeral pile, and, again, it is inhumed in the bowels of the earth; every people have their own particular fashion, and to which do you give the preference?""All are agreeable," said the trooper, following the group they had left with his eyes; "though the speediest interments give the cleanest fields.
"A dozen!" echoed the trooper, in surprise.
The trooper maintained a silence, which he thought would be the most probable means of preserving peace between them; and the surgeon, turning his head from taking a last look at the burial, as they rode around the foot of the hill that shut the valley from their sight, continued with a suppressed sigh,-"One might get a natural death from that graveyard to-night, if there was but time and opportunity!
"The petticoat doctor! - she with the aurora borealis complexion," said the trooper, with a smile, that began to cause uneasiness to his companion.
Betty was well known to every trooper in the corps, could call each by his Christian or nickname, as best suited her fancy; and, although absolutely intolerable to all whom habit had not made familiar with her virtues, was a general favorite with these partisan warriors.
cried the trooper, as he threw himself from his saddle.
"Faith, my dear jewel of a doctor, but it was this side I was expicting you; the whole corps come down on this side but yeerself," said Betty, winking at the trooper; "but I've been feeding the wounded, in yeer absence, with the fat of the land."
"What!" roared the trooper, stopping short as he was about to swallow his morsel, "ancient Jenny!""The devil!" cried another, dropping his knife and fork, "she who made the campaign of the Jerseys with us?""The very same," replied the mistress of the hotel, with a piteous aspect of woe; "a gentle baste, and one that could and did live on less than air, at need.
"Fury!" cried the trooper, with affected anger, "I shall have my fellows as limber as supple-jacks on such fare; afraid of an Englishman as a Virginian negro is of his driver."
"A song, a song from Captain Lawton!" cried two or three of the party in a breath, on observing the failure of some of the points of good-fellowship in the trooper.
"Forbear, forbear, good doctor," said the trooper, filling his glass with great deliberation; "I never could wheel round those hard names.
"Silence, for Captain Lawton's song!" roared five or six at once; when the trooper proceeded, in a fine, full tone, to sing the following words to a well-known bacchanalian air, several of his comrades helping him through the chorus with a fervor that shook the crazy edifice they were in:- Now push the mug, my jolly boys, And live, while live we can; To-morrow's sun may end your joys, For brief's the hour of man.
"He waits your pleasure," said the trooper dryly.
"Were you the man whose picture is on the gold, I would not listen to such a crime," said the trooper, throwing the money on the floor with contempt.
"But," said the trooper, "my orders are, to let the washerwoman pass in and out, as she pleases."
You see he sleeps already; to-morrow he'll take a longer nap.""Hands off, ye villain," cried the washerwoman, relinquishing a small bottle that the trooper had succeeded in wresting from her."But I'll go to Captain Jack, and know if it's orders to put a hang-gallows spy in my room; aye, even in my widowed bed, you tief!""Silence, old Jezebel!" said the fellow with a laugh, taking the bottle from his mouth to breathe, "or you will wake the gentleman.
The gang followed the trooper in silence, believing his object to be facility of communicating further on this interesting topic, without the danger of being overheard.
Walking in your sleep, or dreaming while awake?" cried the trooper.
There was no possibility of approaching the troops by surprise, their vigilance being ever on the watch; and the hope of meeting Captain Lawton away from his men, was equally forlorn, for the trooper was constantly engaged in his duty, and his movements were so rapid, that any opportunity of meeting with him, at all, must depend greatly on accident.
The cunning of the trooper was notorious; and rough and broken as was Westchester, the fearless partisan was known to take desperate leaps, and stone walls were but slight impediments to the charges of the Southern horse.
For some time past the trooper had seemed to flatter this preference; and Betty, conceiving that her violence might have mortified her suitor, was determined to make him all the amends in her power.
"Michael was a good soldier and a brave man," said the trooper, finishing the glass.
"Very probably," said the trooper.
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