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Перевод: cavalryman

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Тезаурус:

1. An hour after the French Dragoon Sergeant and his horse had been broken and flensed by the canister another cavalryman rode into the bright midsummer sunshine.
2. An ostler took the cavalryman's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword.
3. More recently, the American writer Washington Irving (1783- 1959) described the ghost of a cavalryman "whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle" during the American War of Independence.
4. For example, a Silver Helm Knight is a cavalryman wearing light armour, carrying a shield and riding a barded horse, his save is therefore 3+ (4+ with a further +1 on account of the barding).
5. Soon the great awards of knighthoods give way to the decorations reserved for the civil and military services, and the shuffle of office workers is broken only by the occasional clink of a cavalryman's spur.
6. For example, a Knight of the White Wolf is a cavalryman wearing heavy armour only and riding a barded horse.
7. He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army, and Lord John's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him.
8. He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter, but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood, nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted, "Fire!"
9. Newstead, known to the Romans as Trimontium, has in the present century yielded up wonderful finds including shoes, sandals, jewellery and the iron helmet of a cavalryman.
10. A black US Cavalryman was slumped against the front window of the drug store, dead without a mark on him.
11. The cavalryman, who was called Lord John Rossendale, was staring at the sumptuous decorations in the supper room where the long tables were draped in white linen and thickly set with silver and fine china.
12. Such developments, to which can be added improvements in the quality of steel used in the making of armour; the ability, as a consequence, to abandon the use of the shield, thereby freeing the left arm; and the development of special rests which permitted the use of a much heavier lance, meant that the cavalryman, far from being an outmoded liability on the field, remained an indispensable element of the army, one whose value was, as we have seen, enhanced by training and by association with men using other weapons.
13. A further - and connected - factor contributed to this change: the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war.