"Grenadier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... every thing, from the madeira and champagne at dinner the claret with a 'layer' of 'port' between the glasses up to the punch of the night, and down to the grog, or gin and water, of daybreak;—all these I have threaded with both the same. Sheridan was a grenadier company of life guards, but Colman a whole regiment—of 'light infantry', to be ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... now nearly all arrived, all except the Bombay grenadier regiment, which is to form part of ours, (i.e., the first brigade,) and not the 19th regiment, as I told my father. We have now here two squadrons of H.M. 4th Light Dragoons, the Queen's, and the 17th regiment. ...
— Campaign of the Indus • T.W.E. Holdsworth
... taught me," answered the grenadier. "I haven't forgotten what you told us last week—that a Russian soldier is not ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... the army, the Grenadier Guards. But he has resigned and gone into business with a cousin of his in Lancashire. He wrote me—oh, it must be nearly two years ago—that if there should be a war he would enlist as a matter of course, but as there was no prospect of any, and he was sick of idleness—his good middle-class ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... respectable provision for the younger son of a country squire. Their fine horses, their rich housings, their cuirasses, and their buff coats adorned with ribands, velvet, and gold lace, made a splendid appearance in Saint James's Park. A small body of grenadier dragoons, who came from a lower class and received lower pay, was attached to each troop. Another body of household cavalry distinguished by blue coats and cloaks, and still called the Blues, was generally quartered in the neighbourhood of the capital. Near the capital lay also the ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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