The comte de Kratry, an elegant young hussar, was also present. |
And there, you know who that is, that beau ideal of a hussar? |
The story concerns the relationship between a minor Hapsburg princess and an unmoneyed hussar in the late-nineteenth century. |
It was not, as Abler suggests, Hungarian peasant dress that provided the model for the hussar, but that of Magyar noblemen. |
I have made this hussar grasp a lancer by the throat, and thrust a sword into his side. |
Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarenko had already thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse's head. |