The officers and civilians respected the governor's command, and no outsider gathered a word of information from them.
As for the civilians who had enjoyed the hospitality of the Hôtel de Périgny, they remained unobserved on the outskirts of the crowd.
Muhlenberg was chosen colonel of the Eighth Regiment, he and Henry being the only civilians of the Virginia line to whom regiments were assigned.
He points out that in Paris the method largely followed was that of bestowing social attention and decorations “on American civilians to make them support all sorts of causes.
Everywhere we have seen Germans paying for purchases and respecting property rights as well as according civiliansevery consideration.
Powers caring for all civilians in and around that place.
Two civilians were sitting in the same compartment with me; they thought it an unheard-of thing that a soldier coming from the front should be asked for his fare.
We want to prevent useless shedding of blood as far as the civilians are concerned, but I want to remind you that a too great considerateness borders on cowardice, and cowardice in face of the enemy is punished very severely.
Fifteen deadcivilians were lying in the middle of the road.
But in order to be quite sure to catch the "real" culprit all the civilians were interned in the barn.
I saw two civilians walking together along the drive, which led into a wood.
They will treat thecivilians worse than they did the Belgians.
The Victoria Cross was given to four civilians for gallant acts in the Indian Mutiny, and the Mutiny medal to all civilians who were under fire.
He was told in reply that, “As the Secretary of State for War considers that civilians who attach themselves to an army ought not be deemed eligible for war medals, the adverse decision with regard to Mr. Forbes must remain untouched.
I found copious precedents in favour of civilians being the recipients of war medals.
A great number of our men and women and children, Volunteers and civilians confounded alike, are dead, and some fifty thousand men who have been moved with military equipment to our land are now being removed therefrom.
Even civilians are as good judges as military men of the grand operations of war, although they may be ignorant of details, and of the modes by which those operations have been effected.
They are civil engineers and civilians belonging to your recently formed Army Works Corps.
As I was shouting, entreating, threatening, and striking the fugitives to try and get them to rally, I saw two old Turkish civilians in long beards and caftans.
He was one of the very few civilians who understood and tried to follow any naval principles at all.
So the only safety was unceasing care, even in cases vouched for by civilians of high official standing.
Of course, to do this he had to reduce civilian supplies to the point at which no surplus remained for transport to the front; and civilians naturally suffered.
Like Sherman, he felt much more diffident about the rise from ex-captain of regulars to colonel commanding a battalion than some mere civilians felt about commanding brigades or directing the strategy of armies.
Civilians were left with enough to keep body and soul together, but nothing to send away, even if the means of transportation had been left.
This force was followed by an immense and unwieldy train of supplies, manned by wholly undisciplined civilian drivers; while other, and quite superfluous, civilians clogged every movement and made confusion worse confounded.
As for the reserves, suffice it to say that officers of the active army refuse to regard them seriously, and consider them merely in the light of civilians playing at soldiering.
She took me to the ward reserved for soldiers, the hospital being a mixed one, wherecivilians also were received.
The boys held their visitor until the officer of the day ordered civilians out of camp, and, when the unfeeling guard drove him out, they gave the yell in good old style.
In questioning civilians caution is observed not to disclose information that may be of value to the enemy.
In public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theaters, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present.
In war, civilians are cheap things at best, and an immature civilian, Belgian at that, is very cheap.
And always there are the Belgian women, who live in the War Zone, for at present there is a little strip of Belgium left, and all the civilians have not been evacuated from the Army Zone.
Numerous corpses ofcivilians covered the streets and squares.
The half-starved civilians of Bapaume were forced to make trenches there and later for the defense of Cambrai also.
An order had been issued, two days previous to our arrival, that all civilians should move farther back of the line.
It was a startling instance of soldierly gratitude; and illustrates excellently the friendly attitude of the military and of the local civilians towards each other.
The few civilians who were able to get in were much struck by the evident sincerity and devout behaviour of the men who surrounded them.
A number ofcivilians were conspicuous for their energy in performing voluntary salvage duty.
Civilians were generally unwilling to abandon their homes voluntarily.
In the Spring of 1918 the abandonment in evacuated areas by civilians of wine and portable property caused trouble.
The French Authorities were asked to assist in forbidding the importation by civilians of intoxicants into threatened areas.
But it was, seemingly, a fact that in some villages outside of Amiens regrettable incidents arose from the fleeing civilians abandoning stores of wine or disposing of them to the troops at sacrifice prices.
Later, arrangements were agreed to between the British Force and the French Authorities for the systematic evacuation, with their live stock and supplies, of civilians in threatened areas.
London on a task, the civilians I encountered in London exhibited a considerable interest in the ladies that were thought to haunt G.
This naturally led to a wish that civilians as far as possible should be compelled to quit their homes by force of circumstances rather than by order of the authorities.
This was cool indeed from the folk who made us familiar with the murder of civil hostages, the use of civilians as fire-screens, and the employment of poison-gas as methods of warfare.
And yet a few doors away down the street where the houses had not been very badly damaged they were occupied by civilians who tried to eke out an existence by selling candy and foodstuffs.
And so it goes on day after day among the civilians in the shelled area in France.
All the civilians were loading their donkey or dog carts with household goods and setting out towards Ypres, sometimes driving their cows before them.
Why people should apparently discount death as some of these civilians seemed to do, passed our powers of comprehension; it never ceased to be an astonishing thing to me.
And because soldiers are always associated with the civilian population, it means that such diseases are readily communicated from the army to the civilians, and from the civilians to the army.
Our officers entered into all the preparations with high hopes, thinking that with one good whipping the civilianswould cease to send bantering messages or drag presuming coat-tails before their eyes.
The old soldiers, and civilians also, talked openly of General Custer for Congressman or Governor.
They made their raiding expeditions, not only against Allied troops and military bases, but also on English and French towns, killing civilians and children and destroying property of no importance from a military point of view.
It has long been settled that non-molestation of civilians by an invader is only possible upon the understanding that they abstain from acts of violence against him.
The soldiers spend it all right here, and us civilians profit some by it.
Of course we don't take civiliansnot employed by the government, as a rule.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
