October 24th we moved off from our pleasant quarters at Le Cornet and marched back to Willems into Divisional Reserve.
Up to this time the field-cornet had scarce deigned to notice the quaggas.
There was no longer anything to hinder the field-cornet from commencing the real business of his new life, viz.
Had this work gone on much longer the field-cornet would have had but a poor gathering in harvest-time.
The troop of quaggas became suddenly invested with as much interest as if it had been a herd of elephants; and the field-cornet had started to his feet, and stood gazing upon them--his eyes sparkling with pleasure and admiration.
But the angry field-cornet had not the slightest intention of leaving the lion such a chance.
It was upon these that the eyes of the field-cornet were bent.
At first the field-cornet bethought him of heading towards the settlements.
The party had by chance halted on an eminence that commanded a good view for miles on each side, but the field-cornet had not glanced half around the circle, when an object came before his eyes that brought gladness to his heart.
They had almost ripened; and the field-cornet intended in about a week or ten days to gather in the crop.
The field-cornet now sent Swartboy back for the other horses and the cow, pointing out a place where he should bring them to graze, while he himself continued on in search of water.
But those of the field-cornet had been accustomed to draw the wagon without one, ever since the Hottentot servants fan away; and Swartboy had driven many miles with no other help than his long whip.
The field-cornet began to think that he was trekking right in the way the locusts had come.
The field-cornet went out once again to observe the wind; and then the door of the little kraal was closed and the family retired to rest.
The advancing Company was checked by a wire fence, and there was an awkward moment till the wire was cut; then the donga was taken, and the Field Cornet and his men surrendered.
On the right Major Gilbert came upon a donga in which Field Cornet du Toit and a number of Boers were sleeping.
As soon as the Boers realised that the British were making for one of these, Field Cornet du Toit with 25 men left the Ridge and raced for it.
The Field Cornet and his men could not be seen by the advancing soldiers; the latter, however, were galloping for all they were worth, not knowing whether the mound were held or not.
And he has had the honour of appearing at Court in the uniform of a Cornet of the Clavering troop of the ----shire Yeomanry Cavalry, being presented to the Sovereign by the Marquis of Steyne.
Lieutenants Rodgers and Podgers, and young Cornet Tidmus, of the Dragoons, occupied a private box.
And now the young ladies went over to Pen's side, and Cornet Perch performed a pas seul in his turn.
Vaguely he recollected some tales he had heard about a magic cornet which could provide as many soldiers as would serve to conquer the earth, and which had been removed by his grandfather to a cellar.
He could not hope to be more than a king, and as long as he had his cornet to provide him with soldiers he was secure against his enemies.
Five minutes later he summoned five hundred lancers out of the cornet and bade them go after the old man and fetch back the table.
But the table fell to pieces as he touched it, in the cornet there remained only a few fragments of leathern belts which the rats had gnawed, and in the bag nothing but broken bits of stone.
Cornet Leslie is not one to balk any man's desire that way," Colonel Hume said gravely.
I see by the lists in the courtyard that a Cornet Leslie is now on duty here.
John, Cornet of the Guards; and Joseph, who died in India.
My cornet and quartermaster were made prisoners of war, with four more of the Highlanders.
Having alluded to the cornet à piston, it may be introduced here, particularly as from being between a trumpet and a bugle, and of four foot tone, it is often made to do duty for the more noble trumpet.
The cornet à piston is now not very different from the valve bugle in B flat on the one hand and from the small valve trumpet in the same key on the other.
There is a tuning slide attached to the body, and, of late years, valves have been added to the horn, similar to those applied to the cornet and other wind instruments.
By the use of valves and pistons, with which it was the first to be endowed, the cornetcan easily execute passages of consecutive notes that in the natural trumpet can only be got an octave higher.
He now began to hold a language, to which, since the days of Cornet Joyce and President Bradshaw, no English King had been compelled to listen.
Mr. Thackeray accordingly insists on our confessing that, if the young cornet had remained in the service, he would have been one of the ablest commanders that ever lived.
It is as unjust to judge of the conduct pursued by the Long Parliament towards Strafford on ordinary principles, as it would have been to indict Fairfax for murder because he cut down a cornet at Naseby.
He was as pale as death, and the tuba player stopped to see what ailed the cornet player, and to lean over the railing to see a man down stairs.
As the boat struck blue water, and her bow raised out about sixteen feet and began to jump, the cornet player stopped to pour water out of his horn, and lean against a post.
Here is a description given at the time by an owner of a farm who entertained Field-Cornet Joubert to breakfast--a plucky lady who determined to show that the Boers had no terrors for her.
I offered (through a trooper) to exchange Field-Cornet Joubert hats.
The Baptists have always played the organ, but the cornet as an instrument to be used in leading congregational singing has caused much dispute and contention.
And while the cornet is allowed by many, the violin is still tabu absolutely in certain districts.
This quasi-synonym ofCornet and Cournet lead misled the bloodhounds of the coup d'état.
Cornet was lodging, and who at once proceeded to the Prefecture to denounce our place of refuge to his chiefs.
With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
He reached the barracks ten minutes after the proper time; and as he was traversing the yard, deeply regretting that he should be even such a trifle too late, he met a young cornet who had only joined the regiment six weeks previously.
So much had the gallantry of the little cornet attracted the attention and admiration of the Dutch, that plenty of volunteers were glad to assist Hugh to carry him to Fort Lille.
Rupert was already a good rider, and soon learnt where was his proper place as cornet in each evolution, and the orders that it behoved him to give.
Our little cornet has a neat hand with the foils," Lord Fairholm said drily, "and Master Fulke is not unacquainted with the fact.
For some time after his duel with Captain Muller, it is probable that the little cornet was, after Marlborough himself, the most popular man in the British army in Flanders.
The news of the singular fight on the ground between the armies, and of the reappearance of the famous "little cornet of the 5th dragoons" having spread apace through the army.
He is a proficient performer upon all band instruments from cornet to tuba, including slide trombone, his favourites being the baritone and the trombone.
I continue to quote: "At the age of thirteen he joined The Colorado (Texas) Cornet Band as a charter member.
I had gone so blind with happy tears that I scarce could find his kind, warm hand outstretched, nor could I decipher the commission as cornet of horse in the Royal Border Regiment of irregulars.
I had not thought that you were so nearly a man to be appointed cornet of horse," said Silver Heels, digging into the moss with her knife.
I am only a cornet of horse, and won't be that long.
I am Michael Cardigan, cornet in the Border Horse, and deputy of Sir William Johnson, Baronet, his Majesty's Superintendent of Indian Affairs for North America!
The chief drummer of the True Blues and the cornet player of the Wolfe Tones stopped just under my windows to exchange instruments, an act of courtesy which must be unparalleled in Irish history.
I was not able to hear distinctly what sort of attempt my supporter made at the cornetpart of "God Save Ireland.
Once on its way again, Willy Welsh and his silver-cornet band struck up the hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light.
At the head of the Orange procession was a silver-cornet band which the enterprise of Lebanon had made possible.
The crier now formed the idea of playing on the drum and cornet an air which evidently amused him, and which ended in the refrain "Do not let Szivasz fall, or your son be lost!
Had he but only hastened in time to the rescue of his son Ertogrul, he would not then have had to listen to it from the cornet of this bear-dancer and buffoon, who now paraded a King in place of strange animals!
He did not tell him that he knew full well That Ice Cream Cornet was a non-starter for the Lincolnshire.
