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Example sentences for "corporal"

Lexicographically close words:
coronoid; corp; corpes; corpo; corpora; corporall; corporals; corporate; corporation; corporations
  1. And this would be enough for man if he had an impassible life, both corporally and spiritually; but since man is liable at times to both corporal and spiritual infirmity, i.

  2. Further, the opening of the heavens is understood either in a corporal or in a spiritual sense.

  3. This is accomplished by Matrimony both in the corporal and in the spiritual life: since it is not only a sacrament but also a function of nature.

  4. And consequently, although the chalice is not made of stone, yet the corporal is made of linen, since Christ's body was wrapped therein.

  5. One platoon changed commanders six times in as many minutes, but a lance-corporal led the remaining men with the same dash and judgment as his seniors.

  6. I ran over twenty in the charge, and could have picked them up everywhere; did pick up one, and was promoted to fourth corporal for gallantry in picking up a flag on the battlefield.

  7. The election for fourth corporal was drawing nigh.

  8. He was the captain, and I the corporal of the detail.

  9. But, gentlemen and fellow-citizens, I desire to serve you in an humble capacity, as fourth corporal of Company I.

  10. It had to go through every officer's hands, from corporal up, before it was forwarded to the next officer of higher grade, and so it passed through every officer's hands.

  11. I honestly earned the exalted honor of fourth corporal by picking up a Yankee battle-flag on the 22nd day of July, at Atlanta.

  12. I felt "sorter" cheap when complimented for gallantry, and the high honor of fourth corporal was conferred upon me.

  13. Fines and imprisonments and corporal punishments operate more forcibly on the human mind than all the fears of damnation.

  14. I certainly, as I felt it my duty to inform you at the time, came very near inflicting corporal punishment upon him this morning--very near.

  15. I have strong prejudices against the system of corporal punishment.

  16. If your opinion is not more true than your aim--" began the corporal meaningly.

  17. Too stupidly honest to keep the news to himself, Corporal Max blurted out the information that the advance upon Paris had been temporarily abandoned.

  18. Pardon me, sir," protested Kenneth; "I am a corporal of the 9th Regiment of the Line.

  19. The lad raised the heavy iron bucket, emptied about half the contents away, and was about to return to the cellar when the corporal gripped him by the shoulders.

  20. This man, a corporal of the Landwehr, was a grey-haired fellow nearly sixty years of age.

  21. You admit you are interested in military matters, although your claim to be a corporal in the Belgian army does not hold.

  22. They were always addressed as "English boys" by Corporal Max, somewhat to their chagrin.

  23. Taking off his peasant's cloak the corporal spread it upon the ground, and on it the three huddled together for mutual warmth.

  24. The rest of his comrades regained their underground retreat, leaving the trap-door open in order that the corporal could descend without delay.

  25. Upon gaining the shelter of Fort de Barchon the British lads handed their prisoner over to the charge of a corporal and a file of men.

  26. After covering a distance of about a hundred yards between the edge of the barbed-wire entanglements and the dip formed by the sunken road, the arrested lads found themselves in the presence of a corporal and a file of men.

  27. Incidentally he discovered that the corporal had let out the momentous news of von Kluck's defeat, and Max had a very warm quarter of an hour in consequence.

  28. The corporal looked at Kenneth in astonishment.

  29. The corporal growled at this joking advice, yet in his own mind he felt greatly relieved.

  30. Quackenboss condescended to call him up; and after a crooked palaver, he was despatched to bring the corporal of the guard.

  31. Send for the corporal of the guard, or either of the lieutenants," I suggested, thinking that that might be the shortest way to get over the difficulty.

  32. Parents and masters, however, seem to have used corporal punishment very sparingly.

  33. Thus, the corporal chastisement of wives by husbands was common and permitted.

  34. Doubtless through these inflictions the culprits escaped corporal punishments much less endurable, and they serve to explain the persistent multiplication of familiars, coupled with disregard of the character of the appointees.

  35. There are many cases of death from corporal punishment by flogging.

  36. Corporal Albert Foskett, Company H, was wounded and taken to the rear.

  37. The work was accomplished under a severe fire, by which Luke Doyle of K, and Corporal Rice of C, were badly wounded.

  38. The Mess Corporal proceeded to Mons to see if any green vegetables could be procured.

  39. A few more words and the Corporal realised that this was one of our own men who had walked out of a German prison when the Armistice was declared.

  40. The Corporal demanded to know why the man had wandered so far from billets and what he meant by being so untidily turned out.

  41. The lance-corporal said he would see that some one should be sent to relieve me in half an hour; then he departed.

  42. The next morning, after reveille, a corporal and three men who had done guard over the sniper got orders to take him to a given place, which was about three miles behind our lines.

  43. Two men had been sent out to find what had happened to the lance-corporal and myself, as the company commander had been expecting our report.

  44. The Corporal peered at the crimson West, Hid his pipe in his khaki vest.

  45. The one was Corporal Robert Dick, Bearded and burly, short and thick, Rough of speech and in temper quick, A hard-faced old rapscallion.

  46. With the light of hope on his rugged face, The Corporal sprang to the dead man's place, One prick with the steel, one thrust with the heel, And where was the man to outride him?

  47. He pointed to the tree where the corporal had been tied; though much rain had fallen since, the ground around was still saturated with blood, and a dog was gnawing a piece of the unfortunate wretch’s skull.

  48. That's why I am keeping these back for my own perusal, and perhaps Corporal Zeally's.

  49. Well, if you must know, I'm walking out with Corporal Zeally.

  50. But as the Corporal saluted and took a step forward, the prisoner opened his eyes.

  51. The Corporal pivoted on his heels and stared after him.

  52. It was Corporal Zeally, very slowly taking in the scene.

  53. During this painful scene the door opened, the clash of the butt ends of muskets brought sharply to the ground was heard, and a corporal and three soldiers appeared on the scene.

  54. The corporal approached the youth and seized him by the collar.

  55. And I was extremely glad when at last the corporal opened the door.

  56. I ordered the corporal to wait in the hall, and I followed the girl up the stairs to the first floor.

  57. Very well," said I, and the corporal returned to the hall.

  58. A regiment of dragoons was quartered at Raincy, and from it two privates and a corporal were given me for escort.

  59. Bucky was a corporal in the service, and when Billy had last heard of him he was stationed at Nelson House.

  60. Billy grinned at the corporal as they followed.

  61. The suspicious corporal would not sleep long.

  62. The corporal was already half convinced that Scottie Deane had made the trail from camp and that the hair he had found entangled in the splinter on the tent-pole belonged to the outlaw's wife.

  63. How can we know spiritual from corporal works of mercy?

  64. We can know spiritual from corporal works of mercy, for whatever we do for the soul is a spiritual work, and whatever we do for the body is a corporal work.

  65. How may we briefly state the corporal works of mercy?

  66. The merciful are they who practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and who aid by word or deed those who need their help for soul or body.

  67. Which are the chief corporal works of mercy?

  68. The chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin are: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving; all spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and the patient suffering of the ills of life.

  69. We may briefly state the corporal works of mercy by saying that we are obliged to help the poor in all their forms of want.

  70. This is not to say, or imply, that corporal punishment, or stern treatment, necessarily leads to such unfortunate results.

  71. This is in addition to the feeling of fear, which corporal punishment is apt to produce.

  72. Good," said Adams, and he went out and found the corporal and sent him in to Berselius.

  73. A native corporal and two soldiers stood at the palisade which circled the Hostage House.

  74. Adams, that night, as they sat by the fire, for which the corporal by some miracle of savagery had found sufficient dry fuel in the reeking woods around them.

  75. Let the litter be made, and if you will send me in the corporal of those men, I will talk to him in his own language and explain what is to be done.

  76. He wrapped it in leaves torn from the trees near by, and the grim corporal stood watching him, and wondering, no doubt, for what fetish business the white man had come to find the thing.

  77. The next minute Lady Gowan and her son passed out of the house with a corporal and four men to escort them back to the Palace, the crowd making way for the armed men, while the officer returned to the hall, and looked at the sergeant fixedly.

  78. Well, without a corporal and a file of men as guard.

  79. He walked to the door, threw it open, made a sign, and a corporal and two Guardsmen marched in.

  80. At the sound of hoofs the Corporal turned his head, and he looked long and wistfully at the horseman, as, relaxing his horse's pace into a walk, our traveller rode slowly on.

  81. On re-entering the stables, the traveller found the Corporal examining his horse from head to foot with great care and scrupulosity.

  82. He now came in sight of the neat white cottage of the old Corporal, and there, leaning over the pale, a crutch under one arm, and his friendly pipe in one corner of his shrewd mouth, was the Corporal himself.

  83. Walter's foot was on the step; but before the Corporal mounted the rumbling dickey, that invaluable domestic hemmed thrice.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corporal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bodily; canopy; carnal; centurion; corporal; corporeal; cover; earthly; fleshly; material; mortal; physical; secular; sergeant; substantial; temporal; unspiritual; worldly