Seeing that this was so, the Earl of Pembroke seized the king's rein and constrained him to leave the field with a bodyguard of 500 horse.
But I propose farther, what I shall not tell him, that you shall form a sort of bodyguard to him.
The main body of the king's bodyguard continued their way in good order, and reached Berwick in safety.
Within an hour the mules with the prince's bodyguard will stand in the archway near the small gate of the palace, for by now the baggage and its escort await us a day's march from this accursed city.
But still the king did not come; indeed, it was not until Sakon had despatched another messenger, saying that he was about to return to the city, that at length Ithobal appeared at the head of a bodyguard of black troops.
One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.
A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
Professing to have discovered a conspiracy against his life, he arrested the Mayor and caused the unhappy man to be blinded by a black slave, whom he employed as his bodyguard and executioner.
The Merovingian kings maintained a bodyguard of this kind (antrustions).
Gessler, with a bodyguard of armed men, had entered the meadow, and was galloping towards them.
His bodyguard were on the other side of a stream--the Emperor had just crossed it--and could not come to his assistance.
This distinction is borne on the colours and appointments of the Madras Bodyguard and the 61st Pioneers.
The want of cavalry had been apparent, so the Governor-General's Bodyguardand a regiment of Madras cavalry were also despatched to Rangoon.
Hitherto the want of cavalry and the density of jungle had prevented our following up our successes, but at Pagahm the Governor-General's Bodyguard was able to reach the flying Burmese, cutting up a large number.
For the young Emir had been furnished with a bodyguard by his friend, and though Frank turned again and again there was not another chance.
In this look round and another which followed, Frank found that the men of the bodyguard were fully on the alert, and that twice as many sentries as usual were about the place.
In 1837 he entered the Bodyguard of Hungarian Nobles at Vienna, where he combined military service with a course of study at the university.
To win the sympathy of the people, he appeared in mourning, and appealed for protection for his wife and children, and whenever he left his house he was accompanied by a bodyguard of 3000 men, chiefly consisting of the city rabble.
Alastair, to his dying day, declared and believed that he had had a vision of the great chief Hector Roy with his bodyguard of twelve chosen heroes.
John Roy begged that Mackay would give him a bodyguard consisting of the twelve of his men whom he might choose, and the two dogs Cu-dubh and Faoileag.
The recorded pedigrees give the names of only eleven sons; but tradition says that, as John Roy's family grew up, his bodyguard of twelve chosen warriors was composed solely of his own sons.
Hence it would appear that the bodyguard of the Mackenzie chiefs was composed of MacRaes.
Vision of Hector Roy and his bodyguard Ruaridh an Torra.
This term "shirt of mail" was generally applied to the chosen bodyguard who attended a chief in war and fought around him.
Each side of the road was lined with palatine guards helmeted and cuirassed in gold, the two ranks of the bodyguard flashing in the sun like streams of lightning.
At the same time the Emperor summoned the two legions lodged at Antioch, the only bodyguard left to Gallus.
Nestorius enjoyed the decided favour of the emperor, the imperial plenipotentiary was his personal friend, and a portion of the emperor’s bodyguard accompanied him to Ephesus.
As it was suspected that the police might rush the platform, plans had been made to offer resistance, and the bodyguard was present in force.
Here a motor car was waiting, and accompanied by my bodyguard from Scotland Yard and Holloway, I was driven across Dartmoor to Exeter, where I had a not unendurable imprisonment and hunger strike of four days.
Shoulder to shoulder, fearless and dauntless, stood the little band of gallant knights and gentlemen who formed the bodyguard of the Prince.
While Brigit was telling me the real story of her last two years, as governess, companion, teacher of music, and journalist, Miss Gilder regarded us sidewise from amid her bodyguard of young men.
I got an invitation for all the members of the Set to a tennis party in the Palace gardens, at which the Sultan of Dafur and a bodyguard armed with battle axes would be the chief attraction.
I had heard enough of Carlist headquarters to know that the man had been (very likely was still) Captain General of the Royal Bodyguard and was a person of great political (and domestic) influence at Court.
Such was the envelope and the voice of the fanatical soul belonging to the Grand-master of Ceremonies and Captain General of the Bodyguard at the Headquarters of the Legitimist Court, now detached on a special mission.
At Weighborne's signal his attorney halted and the men of the bodyguard drew rein, keeping their places about him.
The bodyguard rode with hanging reins, and each right hand lay in counterfeited carelessness on the lock of its rifle.
He sent Fara with his brave Herulians and three hundred picked men of the bodyguard two and a half Roman miles in advance.
He took besides his Thracians several of the bodyguard and about a hundred Herulians under Fara.
Leading came a bodyguard of gnomes, looking quaint and important in their warlike furniture.
The elves and the Bodyguard looked to the hoardings, which became more pleasant and effective as the artistic charm of advertisements increased.
On the richly ornamented poop stood the King himself, surrounded by his bodyguard and chief men of the Court, including Jarl Rongvold and Thiodolph the scald.
He was one of a peculiar class of men who formed part of the bodyguard of the King.
It is worthy of note that his own bodyguard was mainly composed of Taeping prisoners, and some of the most faithful of them had been the bearers of the Snake banners of the rebel Wangs.
Partly on this account Chung Wang rode into Soochow with a bodyguard of a few hundred men by the only bridle-path available, and his presence composed for the moment the quarrels of the Taeping leaders.
The procession with the bodyguard of ape-men at its head, the renegade Duca and his caciques following next, and the cage bringing up the rear, advanced relentlessly down the lane to the central stage.
Very wrong in the French, but unless the manners of San Isidoro's bodyguard have degenerated, the soldiers of Napoleon may have had their provocation.
Arquien,[213] lieutenant-governor of the town and fortress; while the garrison was replaced by a portion of the bodyguard by which the monarch had been accompanied from the capital.
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