All he has to do, immediately the Adjutant has finished touching up his position, is to move the piece his eye has been piercing throughout the long period of his opponent's cautious deliberation.
The Adjutant continues his innocent amusement until at last the pleasure wanes.
On this occasion theAdjutant skilfully snipes the Colonel's queen in the sixth move.
The Adjutant immediately apologises for his clumsiness.
The Colonel then liberally spreads out the pieces, selects two pawns, and offers the Adjutant the choice of two fists.
Reporting at Brigade Headquarters, with my pack weighing a ton, I waited, with forty others for the Adjutantto inspect us.
In fact, to us it was a regular vacation, and we were very sorry when one morning the Adjutant ordered us to report at headquarters for transportation and rations to return to our units up the line.
The adjutant was evidently vexed with his messmate; he listened with inquisitive attention to every word that he said.
Here, fellows, this adjutant of ours is completely broken up," said Captain S.
The adjutant stood up, and, thrusting his hands into his pockets, started to go across the grounds.
The adjutant greeted us all, including Guskof, and sat down by me in the seat which the cashiered officer had just vacated.
For that reason, I sent by an adjutant an order to the said chaplain to come to me, to give his account of the affair; and within one hour he was sent back to his prison.
The Colonel was absent at a conference, so the Adjutant was in command.
Adjutant in their billet, and then walk over to some pleasant field on which a thousand men were drawn up in line, presenting a most proper military appearance.
Suddenly a runner appeared and told us that the pineapples had hit the outpost, killing not only some of the men to whom I had just been talking but also the Adjutant of the battalion.
I went back down the trenches past the dead Germans to Battalion Headquarters, and asked the Adjutant what orders he had for the M.
The Colonel called to his adjutant who was sleeping in a bed in the next room.
Adjutant and another officer studying a map by the light of a candle.
Every time this happened, the Adjutant would smile and tell me, as if I had never heard it before, that "cleanliness was next to godliness.
Of course, I had not said a word to any of the men about the condition of our front line, but remembering what the Adjutant had told me about it, I thought now that there might be some reason for the alarm.
At Clonmel the Borrows lodged with an Orangeman, who had run out of his house as the Adjutant rode by at the head of his men, and proceeded to welcome him with flowery volubility.
The Peace of Amiens released many of the untried warriors, who had enlisted "until the peace," their adjutant having to find new recruits to fill up the gaps.
Three years later their Adjutantwas retired upon full-pay--eight shillings a day.
The firing party retired a few paces to a proper distance, the adjutant gave the word to fire, and the young Prince, as if struck by a thunderbolt, fell upon the earth, without a cry and without a struggle.
Adjutant Pelle, who commanded the detachment, advanced, with his eyes lowered, toward the Prince.
This day learned that the Caucus Club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment.
He becameAdjutant General of Militia in Upper Canada.
For the Colonel rides before, The Major's on the flank, The Captains and the Adjutant Are in the foremost rank.
Yes, Manley is saying the thing that's right," the adjutant answered.
Thus it fell out that when the Adjutantwas sighted he was instantly accosted and firmly apprehended.
Then he came over to where his adjutant stood, and shook his hand; then he thrust his fingers through his hair, and half bellowed, his voice resembling that of some foul beast.
The adjutantat once cantered on, and had the good fortune to shortly pick up the tail of the column, when everything was soon all right again.
He was thenAdjutant of the Scottish Horse, and was shortly afterwards killed at Moedwil.
On the way, Captain Fetherstonhaugh (acting Adjutant since Captain Lowndes was hit at Talana) rode off some distance to a flank to try and get some supplies.
Robinson joined about this time, the former a brother of Percy Maclear, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion.
Major Rutherford, Adjutant of the Ceylon Volunteers, arrived in command of the contingent from that corps.
Still another Dublin Fusilier met us at Heidelberg--Major Rutherford, Adjutant of the Ceylon Volunteers, who had come over in command of a detachment of that corps.
He pressed a button and the departing scholar was met by an orderly and escorted from the War Bureau, while the adjutant joined Von Helmuth.
Von Helmuth nodded, and theadjutant stepped to the door and called out: "Lieutenant Münster!
An elderly man in rather shabby clothes entered, looking about helplessly through the thick lenses of his double spectacles, and the adjutant turned at once from the officers about him with an "Excuse me, gentlemen.
Edmund had been unable to go with us on this trip, as Major Rogers was at Albany, and Edmund's duties as adjutantkept him in camp.
Don Francis Viana, adjutant and inspector of the Internal provinces, who commanded at Nacogdoches, is an old and veteran officer, and was one of those who came to America at the same time with Colonel Cordero.
The colonel, major, and adjutant lived in a luxurious palace, about fifty yards down a communication trench.
The Adjutant ordered his men to "recover arms," and rode away with them.
Appointed Adjutant of the regiment after the battle of Belmont; re-elected Adjutant at reorganization of the army at Corinth; appointed Aid-de-Camp to Gen.
Adjutant Harwell was painfully wounded in the first engagement but remained at his post of duty until the close of the struggle.
He's away up at Washakie, and of course his adjutant general don't want to act or even advise until he knows all about it.
Direct Mr. Lanier to report to me in the anteroom," said he, marching thither forthwith, and that message the luckless adjutant had to deliver at once.
Between him and the adjutant flashed one quick glance.
The adjutantorders me to report Number Five sick, sir," he panted to the colonel.
The adjutant rose, but at a signal resumed his seat and waited.
Colonel Button, awaiting in his office the coming of the old and the new officers-of-the-day, directed his adjutant to drop his own work at their entrance and give attention to what took place.
That revealed, indeed, a remarkably strong battalion headquarters, and an undue number at the transport lines, but no other leakages which the adjutant had power to stop.
This was an exceptional incident, since Captain Ricardo, before taking up his duties at the Omagh Depot, had been Adjutantof the Tyrone Regiment, U.
Cather, Adjutant of the 9th Irish Fusiliers, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his services in bringing in wounded under machine-gun fire, in the course of which he lost his life; Captain E.
To assist him he had an adjutant and an equipment officer.
Barrington-Kennett of the Grenadier Guards became adjutant of the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps he made a vow that the corps should combine the smartness of the Guards with the efficiency of the Sappers.
The same letter acknowledged the receipt of the Adjutant General's communication from Quebec, of 25th June, of the declaration of war.
I am much indebted to the zeal and discernment of Foot-Adjutant Geraly, who was very accessary to the execution of my orders.
