land-service

And then for the land-service, to see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said his name was Antigonus, a nobleman.

The Winter’s Tale 2004

As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the laws of this land-service, I did not come.

The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

Whereas Philopoemen, thinking his skill in land-service would equally avail at sea, learned how great a part of valor experience is, and how much it imports in the management of things to be accustomed to them.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

But the circumstances of the time presented to the men, who in other days would have found no outlet for their energies but in land-service abroad, the opportunity of giving those energies a wider scope in the more exacting but also more inspiring service by sea: where richer prizes were to be won, with greater risk no doubt, but risk which called every faculty of manhood into vigorous play.

England under the Tudors

The number of forces to be employed by sea and land in the ensuing year indicated great designs: 28,000 seamen, and 50,000 men for the land-service being voted.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

He was busy in calling in -- "lassooing" -- from the land-service the various naval officers who under Stockton had been doing all sorts of military and civil service on shore.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The howitzers were always landed as quickly as the men, and were brought into action before the light pieces of the land-service could be got ashore.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

And then for the land-service: to see how the bear tore out his shoulderbone; how he cried to me for help and said his name was Antigonus, a nobleman.

Act III. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale 1914

As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the laws of this land-service, I did not come.

Act I. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

For we have more advantage for land-service from our naval skill, than they have for naval matters from their skill by land.

I. In Favor of the Peloponnesian War 1906