serjeant-major

He had tried to force the serjeant-major to take him to the room in which she was.

The Guermantes Way 2003

Saint-Loup had discovered that the serjeant-major had staying with him a subaltern, extremely rich and extremely vicious, whom he knew to have a violent passion for his mistress.

The Guermantes Way 2003

He had been dreaming, he explained to me, that he was in the country with the serjeant-major.

The Guermantes Way 2003

Nevertheless, they still struggled on; fresh troops were raised, and in a sort of sacred battalion, composed of officers, young Pépé, who had just completed his sixteenth year, was appointed serjeant-major.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

The following morning we buried our gallant companions, amongst them our respected serjeant-major (Airey), in one deep grave; but a report was current, that shortly after our departure, the bodies had been disinterred and exposed in front of the grave, that every Affgh [= a] n might witness and exult in the disgrace to which they had subjected the corpses of the Feringhis.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

They appointed a serjeant-major their major-general, and at a given signal on the morning of the 1st of

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

Of ninety-six persons on board the Venus, only Mr. John Darley of the hospital staff, serjeant-major Hearne, twelve soldiers, four seamen and a boy were saved.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

So anxious was he to make himself master of military tactics, that he not only paid the most punctual attendance on all the regimental field-days, but studied at home for several hours a day, under the serjeant-major of the regiment.

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various

George Ralegh, who previously had succeeded Piggot as serjeant-major, commanded in St. Leger's place.

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

` ` Her husband was my serjeant-major for six years; she was

The Waverley 1877