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A loose, collarless shirt of transparent material worn by men outside the trousers. 2. A thin, transparent waist with flowing sleeves, worn by women. capitan: "Captain," a title used in addressing or referring to a gobernadorcillo, or a former occupant of that office. carambas: A Spanish exclamation denoting surprise or displeasure. carbineer: Internal-revenue guard.
"Hold your row!" cried the Carbineer, still in Dutch. "Don't you know your own friends?" The sentry either ran away, or was satisfied, and the line crept on. The first part of the slope is gentle, but the face of the hill rises steep with rocks, and must be climbed on hands and knees, especially in the dark.
To do more than is asked of you is not commendable in a soldier, though it may display individual courage. . . . The carbineer, Burgess, 10th troop, Captain Hallam, was foolhardy to attempt the bridge without orders. . . . The lancer, Ormond, 10th troop, Captain Hallam, however, did his full duty admirably when he faced death to rescue a wounded comrade from the flames. . . . In England a Victoria Cross is given for deeds of this kind.
Our chauffeur, who, being attached to the Comando Supremo, had become so accustomed to driving generals and cabinet ministers that he blagued the military sentries, and quite openly sneered at the orders of the Udine police, would jam on his brakes so suddenly that we would almost go through the wind-shield if a carbineer held up his hand.
In Malapad-na-bató the carbineer was half asleep, and, seeing that the banca was empty and offered no booty for him to seize, according to the traditional custom of his corps and the use made of that position, he readily let them pass on. Nor did the Civil Guard at Pasig suspect anything, and they were not molested.
Out of the fiery tunnel came tearing his terrified horse, riderless; out of the billowing, ruddy vapours reeled Berkley, dragging the carbineer. It was the regiment cheering him that the Zouaves heard. The fields were now swimming in bluish smoke; through it the Zouaves were reforming as they marched.
Vaguely he heard comrades shouting for him to come back, heard shells exploding amid the smoke, wheeled his staggering horse, bent swiftly and grasped at an inanimate form in the smoke, missed, dismounted and clutched the senseless carbineer his comrade and once his valet.
For all one knew, it might have been Muhlen's. The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
Things went on quickly, however, for in less than a quarter of an hour he had cut off two legs. Without, against the posts, was a large wagon full of straw. They had just laid out on the table a Russian carbineer, six feet in height at least; a ball had pierced his neck near the ear, and while the surgeon was asking for his little knives, a cavalry surgeon passed before the shed.
Then, through the rolling ocean of smoke, he saw officers and men trying to hack away and beat out the burning timbers saw a reckless carbineer his own tent-mate dismount and run out across the planking which was already afire, saw him stumble and roll over as a bullet hit him, get to his knees blindly, trip and fall flat in the smoke.
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