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Example sentences for "brother officers"

  • My brother officers, you know, are brave, sensible and useful men, but would not answer to fill the professorial chairs of Winslow University.

  • Furthermore he had lent largely to brother officers, and in consequence of the death of the borrowers on heroic fields, had not always been repaid.

  • I have more than once nearly quarrelled with my brother officers on the following subject, nor can I ever reconcile to my bosom, that the act is fair or right.

  • I have dedicated the book to my brother officers of the Royal Navy.

  • When we returned, my brother officers gave us a dinner to celebrate the event.

  • In after years, I made a portmanteau, which lasted for a long time, for my old friend, Chief Engineer Roffey; and I made many shooting and fishing bags for my brother officers.

  • I am fit now to return to my duty, and I find a marked coldness on the part of my brother officers and a peculiarity in the looks of the men which shows me plainly enough that they believe it true.

  • You see, you cut yourself apart from your brother officers, who are bound to stand aloof till Mr Lennox has cleared himself.

  • If you have any conversation with your brother officers, say I have had you here to give you a severe reproof for the present, and that probably something more will follow when we have crushed the Boers.

  • My staff duties had so separated me from my brother officers that I only knew them by name; while the other aides-de-camp of the general were men much older than myself, and with none of them had I formed any intimacy whatever.

  • I say, Burke," whispered one of my brother officers beside me, "I should not fancy being the man who keeps him waiting in that fashion.

  • My brother officers, however, came not as usual to my quarters; and although I waited with impatience while the hours rolled by, no one appeared.

  • The warm affection, the truly heart-felt regard, which existed among my brother officers, made of our mess a happy home.

  • I had little time for reflecting over my past adventure, such numbers of my brother officers poured in upon me.

  • I repeatedly expressed my desire that none of my brother officers should be disturbed in their commands on my account, and that no new command should be created for me.

  • One was from Sir George Dashwood, inviting me to dinner to meet some of my "brother officers.

  • I absolutely dreaded to meet my brother officers; I felt that in such a position as I stood, no half or partial explanation could suffice to set me right in their estimation; and yet, what opportunity had I for aught else?

  • I was also introduced to my brother officers, all of whom appeared to be cordial and polite.

  • The feeling was reciprocal on the part of my brother officers, and we separated with regret, they on the Paris route, and I and my companions on the more dreary road of the north.

  • It is intolerable to have one's brother officers--making remarks, even with the best intentions.

  • Finally, I began to take some interest in the details; the result partly of habit, and partly of an effort to do so, lest any appearance of pre-occupation might set my brother officers on the scent to discover its course.

  • It was, therefore, with no common alacrity I started on my expedition, armed with a large sketch book, which bid defiance to the suspicion of my brother officers.

  • I lunched with Captain Giorgione and his brother officers, many of whom spoke German, and evinced a capacity for hearing news which was hardly disinterested.

  • I never saw a chair there; but I soon learned to sit down to dinner on my own haunches on the ground with my brother officers.

  • About this time Colonel Newcombe and I formulated a scheme by which the British Government and our brother officers might be saved a considerable amount of money.

  • I had no donkey but borrowed one here and there from my brother officers.


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