musketeer

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Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

A lone musketeer of disruption, he spouts mantras about the glory of “breaking stuff,” and cloaks his bottomless greed and shallow narcissism in showy messianic robes.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

The story finally kicks into gear when the musketeer Athos, played by Ben Cunis, reads a letter about his son’s misfortune even as we watch it playing out in a gorgeous slow-motion battle.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2016

The instigator is that musketeer of the digital age, the whistleblower.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

Later, when a Latin scholar, he was again taken prisoner by the soldiers, was made an officer's servant, and then a musketeer.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav