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Definition of Carbineers
1. carbineer [n] - See also: carbineer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbineers
Literary usage of Carbineers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Transvaal War, 1880-81 by Lady Bellairs, Blanche St. John Moschzisker Bellairs (1885)
"The Boers from the cattle-kraal having meanwhile The car- galloped round the
ridge and outflanked the left rear driven in. of the carbineers' line, ..."
2. Ballads of the War by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1901)
"carbineers to the Rescue ARUNDEL, December 11, 1899 HAVE you heard how our bold
carbineers To each other were truer than steel r When the bullets sing loud ..."
3. How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith by Donald MacDonald (1900)
"... Hope deferred—The distant guns—Enteric fever—A gloomy garrison — Bad news from
the Tugela — The bombardment increases—A shell amongst the carbineers. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"One morning in December 1877, four carbineers were returning from a ...
The wood-cutter suddenly perceived the carbineers, who had hid among the bushes, ..."
5. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"The carbineers won. Sheep were not strongly represented, owing to the foot-and-mouth
dista« ; bnt the pies were good, Mr. Peter Eden, of Salford, ..."
6. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1821)
"The minister of war knew that the Royal carbineers, far from observing the parole
given by their chief, of confining himself to the service of the interior ..."
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