Type of cavalry first appearing in late 15th-century Europe.
1 The cuirassier , being heavier, and mounted on a slower horse, was distanced.
2 Maurice threw back his head and laughed, and the cuirassier caught the infection.
3 The great white cuirassier 's cloak was torn, burnt full of holes.
4 Behind her followed a St. George with his squire, a very fine cuirassier .
5 He slashed the cuirassier 's head open, from his chin, upwards through his teeth.
6 As ever swell'd beneath the steel of gilded cuirassier .
7 A tall cuirassier stood by some bags of gunpowder, ready to blow up the bridge.
8 Close at hand Maurice discovered a cuirassier , who, on seeing them, saluted and stood attention.
9 Suddenly, directly in front of him, was an enormous French cuirassier upon an equally enormous horse.
10 They say that at Eckmühl, for every French cuirassier down, fourteen Austrians were struck in the back.
11 She haunted, therefore, the heights of Bazeilles, seeking among the dead one who wore the cuirassier uniform.
12 An English dragoon dashed at the cuirassier , and with one blow severed his arm from his body.
13 And Lory de Vasselot was a cuirassier .
14 The one-eyed cuirassier said judicially, "That cannot be refused."
15 What is it, my brave cuirassier ?
16 Later in the day when they found themselves alone, out of their moody friend's earshot, the cuirassier remarked suddenly:
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