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Example sentences for "brother officer"

  • Keith asked a brother officer what it meant.

  • Illustration: "It is hateful to speak against a brother officer; but the man is a scoundrel--he is worse!

  • Miss Hunt, it is hateful to speak against a brother officer; but the man is a scoundrel--he is worse!

  • Writes a brother officer, "The boys look at me around the corner, remarking, 'I see him.

  • Together with a brother officer, Captain Curtis, and a trooper, Bradford was tiger-shooting.

  • On one such occasion I had a brother officer with me; and as he was afflicted with a cold, I took him on my back to save him from wet feet.

  • While deeply grieving and lamenting over his death and those who died with him, one cannot but feel proud of his noble and gallant conduct in sacrificing himself in endeavouring to save a brother officer.

  • I heard of him so late as last night, from a brother officer of yours, Captain Stapylton.

  • He walked very lame from an injury to his hip; "his wound," he called it, though his candor did not explain that it was incurred by being thrown down a hatchway by a brother officer in a drunken brawl.

  • The owners turned out to be a colonel of the Bengal Artillery and a brother officer.

  • On arrival, however, I was kindly received by a brother officer.

  • A brother officer of Major Mills, Captain Alexander, placed a suite of rooms in his house at her disposal.

  • Not many days thereafter, she proceeded to Dublin, where, pending the arrival of the regiment, including myself, she was most hospitably received by the family of a brother officer.

  • In his young days a great misfortune had happened to him; in a senseless quarrel he had severely wounded a brother officer, who had become consumptive in consequence and had died two years later.

  • Did you quarrel with your colonel, or fight a duel with a brother officer?

  • The young wife of a brother officer of his own had gained, in such a sojourn as he pictured, health enough to go on to India, and was then alive and well, up in the Hill country above Simlah.

  • A friend of mine, Barnard, a brother officer, heard him--but why go on with this detail?

  • As he moved slowly and with difficulty forwards, he suddenly heard his name called; he looked up, and saw a well known face, that of a brother officer, who had left India on a sick leave along with himself.

  • Ignoring his own amorous dalliance with a brother officer's spouse, he elected to feel injured.

  • The warmest among them was that of a brother officer of her late husband, Lieutenant Patrick Craigie, of the 38th Native Infantry, then quartered at Dacca.

  • The one among them for whom he evinced a special fondness was a Mrs. Lomer, the wife of a brother officer, the adjutant of his regiment.

  • Is it likely that my brother officer, finding himself left behind, may have hidden himself there?

  • But please understand, sir, that I am not seeking for men to press now, but to find my brother officer who is missing.

  • Pinkie was then helping a brother officer to clear his hut, but on the following day a Guardsman brought the noble fellow down.

  • However I discovered in good time that, in default of vermin, they were chasing a brother officer with a paper bag.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brother officer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brother and; brother beloved; brother come; brother dear; brother officer; brother officers; brother said; brother used; brotherly kindness; brotherly love; brothers and; catch fish; cutting them; having done; make herself; nitric acid; northern latitude; now come; sacred character; salted water until tender; thousand livres; white race; will perhaps; would rather; written upon; young friend