horse soldiers
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The faces of these old horse soldiers were lined, and stories were written on the lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ask one of these horse soldiers what he was doing on Dec. 7, 1941, and the answer is easy: it was Sunday, so he was playing polo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The street was lined with horse soldiers, from the iron gate of the Tower, to the scaffold, which was encompassed also with horse soldiers.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.
He means that bandits who let themselves be caught by horse soldiers are idiots, and that soldiers who try to catch bandits on horseback have very little chance of getting at them.
From Colomba by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
It was removed, and a heap of blades such as were used by horse soldiers tumbled out.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
