uhlans
Example Sentences
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Say, have you heard of the fuss they're making over the two headless uhlans that they picked up over there near Villecourt?
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
At that moment the curtain was raised, and on the stage a company of Irish volunteers and a number of German uhlans were revealed.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.
There are various uniforms of hussars, infantry, and uhlans, and some of the women, too, are dressed in a certain fantastically picturesque style to please their artist brothers or fiancés.
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
He had insisted that morning that the uhlans that they sighted were some of Bazaine's troops.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
The French were posted ten leagues away without moving, and yet, each night, some of the uhlans disappeared.
From Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Maupassant, Guy de
