When this formidable body of men was assembled, my lords, and reviewed, they were perhaps found too graceful and too well sorted to be exposed to the dangers of a battle; and the same tenderness that has so long preserved our own forces from any other field than the park, might rescue them from the fatigues of accompanying the active hussars in their incursions, or the steady Austrians in their conflicts.

They carried themselves well, those red-coated troopers, with their silver helmets, their high white plumes, and their long, gleaming swords; while, on the other hand, I am sure that they would acknowledge that they had never looked upon finer light horsemen than the fifty hussars of Conflans who were facing them.

'They are so heavy that they cannot raise more than a trot, so when they charge we manage that there shall be a brigade of chasseurs or hussars behind them to follow up the advantage.'

It was Colonel Lasalle's accidental presence at the moment when I received the summons which led to my choosing one of his hussars for the mission.

The Captain called a hussar from the last line that passed him, and confided the stubborn horse to his charge.

I passed one of the horsemena Hussar like myself.

There is a hussar on horseback on the lid.

They were such a contrast, these two men, that I could not help glancing from one to the other of them: the black, sly politician, and the big, sky-blue hussar with one fist on his hip and the other on the hilt of his sabre.

I stopped, gentlemen; but judge of my astonishment when in this market place I saw not one of my hussars about me!

it was enough to make a man mad to see this fellow riding away so gaily to join his beef-barrels, and his brandy-casks, and then to think of my five hundred beautiful hussars without their leader.

I would have laid my hussars against his dragoons had they been ours to pledge.