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Swiss Guard

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Swiss Guard
traditional papal escort. [Rom. Cath. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary]


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First, then, they went, I don't know where, for a number of lay figures, of all heights and sizes, hoping there would be one to suit mine, but the largest - that of the drum-major of the Swiss guard - was two inches too short, and a half foot too narrow in the chest.
You are as much mercenaries (sincere mercenaries, I grant) as were the men of the Swiss Guard.
Orders had just been given to the royal guards and the Swiss guards, not only to stand firm, but to send out patrols to the streets of Saint Denis and Saint Martin, where the people thronged and where they were the most vociferous, when the mayor of Paris was announced at the Palais Royal.
 
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