48 examples of redcoat in sentences

Fines, imprisonments, and other sentences, out of all proportion to the offence committed, were heaped on every redcoat in much the same way as was then being practised in Boston and other hotbeds of disaffection.

But I do assure you he is no house-keeper, I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.

Till the sun got low, I did not believe that there were so many redcoats in the forest army.

" "Maybe he hid muskets or powder from the redcoats there, hey?"

rankling in his heart, he came to despise all forms of monarchy, and to hate "redcoats."

Before this toime next year, we'll be shootin' redcoats for sport.

"We've downed one redcoat in fair light; what more do ye want, bad luck to ye?"

"Wouldn't we make it unprofitable for the redcoats!" Fernando was rather non-communicative, and sat in the bow of the boat lost in painful meditation.

Fernando ran and caught up the ball and, running with it to Captain Vaughn, said: "Captain Vaughn, I've been playing ball with the redcoats, and I have caught them out.

" Fernando and his score of sharpshooters soon began dropping the redcoats as fast as they could see them.

About two hundred redcoats were led by an officer on horseback.

The redcoats are afther us!"

The siege continued all day long, and late in the afternoon, just one hour before sunset, the redcoats appeared on the wooded hill back of the town, and opened fire with two small pieces and muskets.

Fernando's riflemen had been waiting for this, and, with wild yells, they leaped the redoubts, deployed along the stone fences and houses and picked off the redcoats so rapidly, that they fled pell mell to their own works, glad to escape the bullets of those unerring riflemen.

Sukey and Terrence were sent forward to reconnoitre, and as they came in sight of the narrow valley surrounded by hills they saw the head of the column of redcoats coming, their banner upheld to the breeze.

Sukey did not fire as often as some of the others, but at every shot he went up to the breastwork, looked over until he could see a redcoat, and then taking aim blazed away.

The field looked like a sea of blood, for it was literally covered with redcoats.

I hated the sight of a redcoat.

Save for the redcoats, and I am not so daft over Sir Henry Clinton's gay officers as someno doubt't is my Quaker bloodexcept for the officers, where are our gallants?

But he said to himself, as the horses started slowly, "Pray de Lord I ain't mistooken; don't want to fall into none ob dem old redcoats' han's, Caesar don't, dat's sartain.

" "I met Lieutenant Hillhouse last summer at my father's house," said Betty, as the young officer came around to her side of the coach, "and right glad I am to see you now, sir, instead of the redcoats whom Caesar, our coachman, has been imagining would start from every bush as we near White Plains.

Among them was Mr. C. A. Phillips, whose two bitches from Mr. James Freme, of Wepre Hall, Flintshire, succeeded in breeding from one of them, whom he named Rivington Sloe, the celebrated dog Rivington Signal, who, mated with Rivington Blossom, produced Rivington Bloom, who was in turn the dam of Rivington Redcoat.

The hooks were to be seen from which swung the hammocks of Burgoyne's captive redcoats.

When the actor was called upon for a sentiment, he proposed the health of his gracious sovereign, Anne, whereat all in the company were pleased with the exception of one disloyal redcoat.

D'ri had begun to shoot, dodging between trees, and a redcoat had tumbled over.

48 examples of  redcoat  in sentences