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Meanwhile their comrade went away and returned with the jeweller, who made known to them our case, and we joined company with him; after which one of the band fetched a boat, in which they embarked us all three and rowing us over the river, landed us on the opposite bank and went away; whereupon up came a horse-patrol and asked us who we were.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

We had passed the horse-patrol about a quarter of a mile, when all at once we heard some one singing, or rather howling:

Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden George Manville Fenn 1870

Thereupon up came a horse-patrol and asked us who we were; so I spoke with the Captain of the watch and said to him, 'I am

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

They were proceeding to rifle the baggage, when, hearing the horse-patrol approaching, they plunged into the thicket as suddenly as they had appeared.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

Probably the solution of our inquiry may be, that the supply is greater than the demand; that, in the present state of things, embryo highwaymen may be more abundant than purses; and then, have we not the horse-patrol?

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

'Confound you!' said he -- yet that was not the expression either -- 'I know you; you are one of the horse-patrol, come down into the country on leave to see your relations.

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

Meeting the horse-patrol, they take them as their escort.

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

Yet, when afterwards Hermon, one of the Athenian horse-patrol, stabbed Phrynichus with his dagger in the market-place, the Athenians, after trying the case, decided that the deceased was guilty of treason, and crowned Hermon and his comrades with garlands.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

They soon after took us (the prince, the jeweller, and myself), carried us to the river side, put us aboard a boat, and rowed us across the water; but we were no sooner landed, than a party of horse-patrol came up to us.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

Behind the low brick building, most of its windows still boarded, county police parked their horse-patrol van, its doors open and plenty of hay inside as Officer William Brown, on his Clydesdale partner Elvis, and Greg Bruno, on his Percheron partner Tonka, clopped along

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