praetorian

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Back of the banqueting hall stood Stalin's pretorian guard of young Georgians, recruited in the mountains and obedient to his slightest wish.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, he understands that in French opinion obligatory military service appears as a guarantee of a policy of peace, while a volunteer army takes on the character of a pretorian guard.

From Time Magazine Archive

The throng crowded forward to look at it more nearly; but divisions of pretorian foot were there, and, forming in line on both sides of the gate, prevented approach to the road.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

Because you have witnessed the success of a pretorian coup de main, you liken yourselves to the Lower Empire!

From Napoleon the Little by Hugo, Victor

The pretorian bands stood in order of battell armed in the field that laie before their lodgings, through which field Caratake shuld come.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England by Holinshed, Raphael