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Trooper in sentence

178 examples of Trooper in a sentence

Some little time was lost in clearing his throat, and getting the proper pitch of his voice; but no sooner were these two points achieved, than Lawton had the secret delight of hearing his friend commence-"'Hast thou ever'"-"Hush!" interrupted the trooper.
"A friendly shot, that," cried the trooper.
"It would be easy to hide a regiment behind those rocks," returned the trooper, dismounting, and taking the stone in his hand.
"Oh! 'tis nothing but the wit of some bumpkin, who thinks to frighten two of the Virginians by an artifice of this kind," said the trooper, placing the billet in his pocket.
The surgeon turned a vacant eye on his companion as he uttered this soliloquy, while the penetrating looks of the trooper had already discovered another pile of rocks, which, jutting forward, nearly obstructed the highway that wound directly around its base.
"Spur, Sitgreaves - spur," shouted the trooper, dashing over every impediment in pursuit, "and murder the villain as he flies."
cried the trooper.
The disappointed trooper, perceiving that his enemy had escaped him, now turned his eyes, which were flashing with anger, upon his comrade, and gradually his muscles lost their rigid compression, his brow relaxed, and his look changed from its fierce expression, to the covert laughter which so often distinguished his countenance.
While speaking, the surgeon raised the limbs in question to a nearly horizontal position, an attitude which really appeared to bid defiance to anything like a passage for himself through the defile; but the trooper, disregarding this ocular proof of the impossibility of the movement, cried hastily,-"Here was nothing to stop you, man; I could leap a platoon through, boot and thigh, without pricking with a single spur.
Now, had it been one of the more important members, such as the leg, or arm, how much greater must the pleasure have been!""Or the neck," said the trooper; but their desultory discourse was interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton.
Certain significant signs which were embraced at a glance by the prying gaze of the trooper, at once made him a master of their secret; and he was about to retire as silently as he had advanced, when his companion, pushing himself through the passage, abruptly entered the room.
The trooper was enjoined to vigilance, and the letter concluded with a compliment to his honor, zeal, and undoubted bravery.
As he concluded this soliloquy, the trooper took a seat and began to whistle, to convince himself how little he cared about the matter, when, by throwing his booted leg carelessly round, he upset the canteen that held his whole stock of brandy.
There was no mistaking the hand; it was clearly the same that had given him the timely warning against assassination, and the trooper continued, for a long time, musing on the nature of these two notices, and the motives that could induce the peddler to favor an implacable enemy in the manner that he had latterly done.
"Ha!" cried the trooper; "then they have received a letter also."
It never required more than a single look to acquaint the trooper with the particulars of every scene that was not uncommonly veiled, and the first survey that he took on entering the house told him more than the observations of a day had put into the possession of Doctor Sitgreaves.
"An exchange," said the trooper.
"Let her," said the trooper, indignantly; "she has chosen from her country's enemies, and may she meet with a foreigner's virtues in her choice."
They reached the stables before the trooper spoke, when he cried aloud,-"Bring out Roanoke!"His man appeared with the steed caparisoned for its master.
"Stand forward, Tom, with the lights; fire!"Wellmere fired, and the bullion flew from the epaulet of the trooper.
But the fourth seized his legs; and, unable to contend with such odds, the trooper came to the earth, bringing with him all of his assailants.
"'Tis well!" said the trooper, riding up to his men; then, speaking a few words of encouragement, he led them down the valley at a rate but little less rapid than his approach.
On arriving near the gates of the Locusts, the trooper halted his party, and made his arrangements for the assault.
"On!" shouted the trooper "on! - give quarter when you have done justice!"
There was a startling fierceness in the voice of the trooper that reached to the heart, even amid the horrors of the cottage.
cried the trooper, cleaving a marauder to the jaw; but the leader sprang into the lawn, and escaped his vengeance.
The trooper pointed to her figure, motioned to Katy for assistance, and advanced once more to the building.
By this time the flames had dispersed much of the suffocating vapor, so that the trooper was able to find the door, and in its very entrance he was met by a man supporting the insensible Sarah.
The trooper turned from gazing at the edifice, to the speaker, and to his astonishment, instead of one of his own men, he beheld the peddler.
"The cause of America is dear to me as life," said the trooper, "but she cannot require her children to forget gratitude and honor.
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