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Definition of Guardsmen
1. guardsman [n] - See also: guardsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardsmen
Literary usage of Guardsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"guardsmen have at all periods been a racketing, rollicking set of fellows.
Whether ancients or modems, infidels or Christians, ..."
2. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... street — Commodore Wilkes's famous ship San Jacinto gives us a scare — Halifax —
Sail for England in company with some of Her Majesty's Life guardsmen. ..."
3. The Opera Goers' Complete Guide: Comprising Two Hundred and Sixty-eight by Leo Leop Melitz, Richard Salinger, Louise Wallace Hackney (1921)
"THE TWO guardsmen Opera in three acts by Lortzing (first produced under the
title "The Two Knapsacks"). ..."
4. The Road to France: The Transportation of Troops and Military Supplies, 1917 by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"After a quiet interval of eight days, during which there was no National Guard
travel from New York, eight special trains of New York guardsmen departed for ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... contents himself with Rosina's dowry, which the Count generously transfers to
him. DIE BEIDEN SCHUTZEN (The Two guardsmen) Comic Opera in three acts by ..."
6. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"... of the king's two warders; of the king's nine guardsmen ; of the king's two
table attendants; of the champions Senc/ni, Du'ii/iac/i Datl Uladh and ..."
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