What is "loup"

Usage examples of "loup".

Sharpe guessed the french Brigadier was about forty years old, six years older than Sharpe himsel Loup now took two cigars from his furedged sabretache and offered one to Sharpe.

Captain Sharpe, that the Brigade Loup can fight any man, anywhere, anyhow.

Brigadier General Loup, back in his fur dged saddle, watched the executions from fifty yards away.

It was true that Loup, like Juanita de Elia, affected a certain flamboyance, but Ducos forgave the Brigadier his wolf fur pretensions because, quite simply, he was the best soldier Ducos had discovered in Spain and the Major was determined that Loup should be properly rewarded.

And it was one of those scouts who first brought loup news of the Real Compania Irlandesa.

Yet now there were men in the fort, and the patrol leader brought loup news of them.

The fort itself, as loup well knew, would need at least a thousand men to man its crumbling walls, so a mere two hundred hardly constituted a garrison, yet strangely the newcomers had brought their wives and children with them.

The fort did not threaten him and if the newcomers were content to sit tight and make themselves comfortable then Loup would not stir them into wakefuiness.

And loup remembered the insolent face of the man who had insulted him, the man who had once insulted all rance by taking an eagle iouched by the Emperor himself.

So that afternoon loup himself visited the hill top, taking his finest spyglass which he trained on the old fort with its weed i wn walls and half filled dry moat.

Beyond the flags the red oated soldiers were doing mu ket drill, but loup did not watch them long, instead he inched the telescope southwards until, at last, he saw two men in green coats strolling along the deserted ramparts.

He could not see their faces at this distance, but he could tell that one of the men was wearin a long straight sword and loup knew that British light infantry officers wore curved sabres.

The waistcoat and sash, the half boots and the plumed bicorne were all too fancy for British taste, indeed they were so fancy that for a second loup wondered if the captive was an officer, then he realized that Braudel would never have treated a captured officer with such disdain.

She was dark haired, attractive and probably, Loup guessed, about fifteen or sixteen.

Guardsman Grogan was plainly willing to cooperate with his captors and so loup signalled the Sergeant to release him.