How To Use Musketeer In A Sentence
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Giles, aware that Warne was more musketeer in approach than monk, cleverly tossed one higher and shorter as Warne advanced to smite another blow.
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Dumas's three musketeers are archetypal Gascons.
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Recall also that the three musketeers are fallen idols, prototypes of the grizzled gunslingers found in so many Westerns.
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The musketeers romantically portrayed by Dumas in the 19th century reflected the flamboyance and panache expected of them and their kind.
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It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.
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Or you could go swashbuckling in "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island," where Captain Flint was "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.
Books With Strong Male Characters
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They were like his Three Musketeers.
Christianity Today
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The English Civil War Society will re-enact the fierce fighting between Roundheads and Cavaliers with musketeers and pikemen in the High Street at 6pm on Saturday June 19 and 3pm on Sunday June 20.
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At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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That's because the main plot is not the action or the treachery or the historical import, it's the friendship among D'Artagnan and the three Musketeers.
Archive 2006-12-01
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Apparently, King Louis XIII's loyal musketeers have been disgraced and now hide out among the townspeople.
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Well, I'm two and thirty, and have never been in the fray: a kind of nondescript, half scholar, and by nature half billman or bowman or musketeer; if I'm worth anything, London's the field for me.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Guys, do you remember the time were read the Three Musketeers in class and the teach started to call us that?
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They all protect the young king, who lives vicariously through the musketeers ' exploits.
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They equipped their troops as sailors, artillerists, musketeers as specified by the Crown.
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The Queen Dowager, adopting now a very different tone from that which characterized her conversation at the Bayonne interview, wrote to Alva, that, if for want of 2000 Spanish musketeers, which she requested him to furnish, she should be obliged to succumb, she chose to disculpate herself in advance before God and Christian princes for the peace which she should be obliged to make.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
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The "Three Musketeers " of the R. O. C. 's embassy to the Solomons: from left to right are Liu Shih, Ambassador Ning, and Ted Liao.
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In Bladestorm, rather than control and fight as one character, entire squads of period fighters such as pikemen or royal knights or musketeers or archers could be captained into huge skirmishes, a bit like Total War on speed.
Eurogamer
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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
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Jacobz in command of our pinnace manned with 4 musketeers and 6 rowers, all of them furnished with pikes and side arms together with the cockboat of the _Zeehaen_, with one of her second mates and six musketeers in it, to a bay situated N.W. of us at upwards of a mile's distance in order to ascertain what facilities (as regards fresh water, refreshments, timber and the like) may be available there.
A Source Book of Australian History
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From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dragoons or possibly, from the surface damage on them, as ‘case-shot’ from artillery pieces.
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Once I complete the bicorn battalion (as the Apcheron Regiment) then that will give me two musketeer battalions and a battalion (60) of Pavlov Grenadiers that I had painted for me a decade ago.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The crippling ailment of a good portion of the 50 or so musketeer flicks out there is that there's only so much you can do with cavaliers and carriages.
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He was known for his mysterious changes in status, for at one time he might be a lackey, the next a noble, then a musketeer to an abbe or all the way to being a proctor.
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Effective as these weapons were, infantrymen still needed forked stands as props for aiming and firing; and since they were slow to load, pikemen had to be included in battalions to protect musketeers from enemy cavalry charges.
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So borrowing from a suggestion from one of the lads on The Miniatures Page (TMP), I am thinking that the grenadiers in the musketeer regiments (are you following this so far?) will wear the shako and busch plume and have a troop quality that is no better than a musketeer.
Archive 2008-06-01
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The partial beard category is divided into natural, Chinese, Imperial, Musketeer, sideburns, and freestyle categories.
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At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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‘Indeed my Lady, it was taken from a French musketeer just minutes after I had killed him,’ he swung it in the air several times, watching with a boyish smile as the nuns cringed.
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Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
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Wisconsin patiently worked the shot clock and even led by a point with about 9: 10 remaining before the Musketeers cracked through.
USATODAY.com
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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The series follows the life of the musketeers as they train at the musketeer's academy in order to protect France's Sun King, who became monarch at the age of five.
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The Musketeers' life in Paris was often tumultuous, even if strict discipline continued to reign back at the casern.
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In the 17th century, the musketeer and his relatively sophisticated weapon was protected from being ridden down by cavalry by protective screens of pikemen.
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He was the co-writer and dialogist for several French movies, co-dialogist for the French version of ‘The Return of the Three Musketeers’ directed by Richard Lester, and script editor for three French TV series.
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He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658.
D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
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Elchies, a shrivelled atomy with a hirpling walk, leaning heavily upon a rattan, both with the sinister black tri-corne hats in their hands, and flanked by a company of musketeers.
Doom Castle
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The musketeer-style bumfluff appeared just days after David's.
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The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
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Later in life he was to portray himself as the Minotaur or a musketeer.
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In that famous clash in Flanders in 1745, aristocratic officers from both the British and French armies strolled between the lines of musketeers, chivalrously inviting the other side to fire first.
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These famously include: Name one item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers?
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It looks like the Three Musketeers are slowly exiting stage left.
Times, Sunday Times
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He worked with all sorts of obscure people; and above all with Mirepoix, sublieutenant of the Black Musketeers, to find out
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Early musketeers, of the late 16th and early 17th century, were noted not only for the flamboyance of their dress but also as élite foot soldiers, armed with the latest in death-dealing technology, the matchlock.
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At this tempting sight, the king forgot alike perceptor, guards, and Gray Musketeers.
The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
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The actors create a relaxed chemistry together as they veer between the solidarity of the three musketeers and the dimwitted fumbling of the three stooges.
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Some sagacious musketeers wore metal skullcaps, called ‘secrets’, beneath their hats.
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Instead, Mr. Richert and his son Nicholas took the key roles in the contemporized Three Musketeers tale.
Here's Lookin' At You
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Eliminating the match speeded up fire-drill significantly, but it also allowed the musketeers to be packed far more closely in their units.