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• Bottom-dwelling grenadiers, hakes, cods, and their relatives use their chin barbels to find bottom-dwelling prey, or animals hunted and killed for food.
• M. Chartier's "Wagram" is a furious cavalry charge, in which one finds a dash and go that is absent in the "Charge of the Grenadiers of the Guards at Eylau," by M. Schommer. Goupil's Paris Salon of 1897
• Our little gaggle of ladies of the Gallian Court found themselves trapped behind the enemies lines when a Germanian reconaissance in force 3 btns musketeers, 1 btn grenadiers, 4 jager companies, 6 squadrons of hussars, 3 squadrons of dragoons, and two 6 pounders led by Major General von Hacke, occupied the little village of Muhlenberg, situated a few miles west of the Fulda Gap. Archive 2008-01-01
• Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
• When, in the autumn of 1884, an expedition was sent to Bechuanaland under Sir C.arles Warren, to expel the filibusters who had raided the territory, to pacificate the country, and to reinstate the natives, a balloon detachment under Major Elsdale and C.ptain F.C. Trollope, of the Grenadier Guards, attached to the Royal Engineers, was included in the expedition. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
• Most of the other marines had taken up positions in barracks or in the cratered remains of bunkers destroyed by their grenadier.
• At dusk on 14 October, two 400-man columns, one French grenadiers and chasseurs, the other American light infantry under Alexander Hamilton, attacked two redoubts in advance of the main British line.
• _Jacques Martin, soldat au 170e d'infanterie, grenadier d'élite, au cours des combats du 26 et du 27 novembre, 1916, a, par son mépris du danger et par son ardeur, assuré la progression dans un boyau défendu pas à pas par l'ennemi. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917
• Behind them were the Red Lancers in their square czapka headgear and the Horse Grenadiers in their tall black bearskins. Sharpe's Waterloo
• Additionally, a brimless hat permitted the grenadier greater ease in throwing the grenade overhand. The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Whether the Second Amendment Applies to the States