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A trooper drove his horse straight into the mare, and as it staggered he sabred at Lakshmibai back-handed - I shrieked aloud and shut my eyes, and when I looked again she was in the dust, and even at that distance I could see the crimson stain on her jodhpurs.

Fiancée 2010

When you've just been betrayed by an Indian queen who has previously professed undying love for you, and she confronts you - having just sabred one of your countrymen, possibly to death - and you are in the grip of her minions, with your feet chained under your horse ... well, the etiquette probably takes some thinking about.

Fiancée 2010

Men were struggling in the water only a few yards from me - I saw a British soldier sabred down, another floundering back as a sepoy shot him point-blank through the body, and a third, thrust through with a bayonet, sinking down slowly on the muddy shore.

Fiancée 2010

I knew what was happening as well as if I was seeing it - the Company riders, out-sabred, would be drawing off, and sure enough presently the Pathans came down the nullah in good order, clustered round Damodar and the Rani's women; among the last to come was Lakshmibai.

Fiancée 2010

It's how I see him still, laughing deep in his throat, slap-ping his thigh, the great beard shaking and his eyes dancing with merriment - old Ossawatomie, who sabred five unarmed men to death in cold blood, and blew hell out of Harper's Ferry.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Once in , the French horsemen sabred the artillery crew mercilessly.

Archive 2008-05-01 Der Alte Fritz 2008

Once in , the French horsemen sabred the artillery crew mercilessly.

In The Grand Manner Napoleonics Der Alte Fritz 2008

Instead of pressing home the charge until at least they had sabred some of the enemy, they kept their horses abreast of their infantry skirmishers,330 charging and wheeling side by side.

Hellenica 2007

In the mean time Smith had shot one of the advancing policemen dead, but was in his turn sabred by the same policeman that had given Foxley his death blow; while McCoy, by whose hand the elder

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry BONAFIDE SABAOTH, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.

Ulysses 2003