light-horseman

At the top of the list, as an article of food, stands a fish, which we named light-horseman.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

No epicure in England could pick a head with more glee and dexterity than they do that of a light-horseman.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

"Ah! your conspiracy is against me, Monsieur le Page!" said Ninon, looking the while at another light-horseman, and abandoning her remaining arm to a third, the other gallants seeking to place themselves in the way of her flying ceillades, for she distributed her glances brilliant as the rays of the sun dancing over the moving waters.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

And slowly approaching, he accosted a young light-horseman, of about eighteen, who was sitting apart from his comrades upon the parapet.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

He had been no Cunningham unless his sense of duty had been very near the surface - no Englishman, had he not been proud that men of a foreign, conquered race should think him worthy of all that honor; and no man at all if his eye had been quite dry when the veteran light-horseman swaggered out at last and left him to his own reflections.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

The "light-horseman stanza" which Scott employed in his longer poems was caught from the recitation by Sir John Stoddart of a portion of

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

For instance like that amiable logician the Marquis de Ferrières, an old light-horseman, deputy from

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

But while the light-horseman did nothing to disparage his professional skill, Chuheluh failed not, on his part, to give to a scene so degrading, all the moral grandeur it could borrow from his own immoveable stoicism, and, like the young Spartan who had stolen a fox, his countenance was as placid as the summer heaven, whilst his very vitals were in agony.

Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II. 1839

With passionless composure, the light-horseman accomplishes his task, and no fire of anger or indignation flashes from his eye to inflame the resentment of his victim -- no look of compassion to alleviate his sufferings.

Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II. 1839

Within five minutes, Chærea re-entered the tent, introducing a man dressed and armed as a light-horseman, covered with mudstains, travelworn, bending with fatigue, and shivering with cold, the hoar-frost hanging white upon his eyebrows and beard.

The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832