What is "troopers"

Usage examples of "troopers".

A platoon of camouflaged troopers was moving back down the valley in Indian file.

In the same instant the guerrillas hiding below the bank burst from the water, and went up through the reeds, just as the troopers whirled to face the bowmen.

There was a single shot, and then all the troopers were down, scattered along the edge of the bank, but the guerrillas were still working over them, swinging and chopping and hacking.

Two black troopers in camouflage battle-smocks searched the Volkswagen for weapons with painstaking deliberation, while a lieutenant with the cap-badge of the Korean-trained Third Brigade examined his passport.

There was a sand-coloured army Land-Rover waiting under a huge marula tree off to one side of the strip, and three troopers saluted Peter Fungabera with a stamping of boots that raised dust and a slapping of rifle-butts.

A bodyguard of Third Brigade troopers in full battledress checked Craig and his driver carefully at the gate before allowing them up to the main house.

Lynn and a platoon of Third Brigade troopers offloaded twelve hundred bales of barbed-wire into the roofless tractor sheds.

There were four sandcoloured army trucks drawn up in a line behind the house, with Third Brigade troopers in full battle-kit grouped around them.

Timon drove cautiously with parking lights only burning, and the two open army trucks packed with Third Brigade troopers in full battle-gear kept close behind them.

Armed troopers swarmed out of them, rushing forward to-club down the two unarmed men onto the gravel of the road.

Fr6 the back of the captured truck the troopers were hurting out bales and crates.

The troopers pressed so closely that none of them could fire without hitting one of their own.

Five troopers stood before the barrier, waving their rifles in an urgent command to the Land-Rover to halt.

The line of troopers had closed like a net around the homestead, while skirmishers came forward in pairs, covering each other, -the classical tactics of the street fighter, and they went swiftly into the house, breaking through windows and side doors, sweeping the interior.

Two troopers slipped in through the front door, and reported to the sergeant in a gabble of Shona that Craig could not follow.