Ye must know the young leftenant was fell deep in love with a rich Indy Naboob's daughter, which had come over to take her back to' the East Indgees.
As soon as they heard it was a love consarn, not a man but swore to keep a stopper on his jaw; only, at findin' out he was a leftenant in the Royal Navy, all hands was for touching hats when they went past.
Hows'ever, things went on till we'd crossed the line a good while; the leftenant was making his way with the girl at every chance.
If I was you," the leftenant says, "I'd call the captain.
Well, in an hour more the land was quite plain on the starboard bow, and the mate comes aft again to Leftenant Collins.
She sailed without my seein' Leftenant Collins, so I thought I was to hear no more on it.
So I was, tho' he was only a leftenant then, lads," continued the old man.
I came to ask the leftenant to go down with me an' take another look at it.
The leftenant follys her, and Oi closed up the rear.
And sure enough the braves made as if they would folly, but the leftenant throws the reins of her horse over the horn of his saddle, and whips out his revolver and houlds 'em back till I've got well away to the trail again.
Then the lady gets more sinsible, and the leftenant pershuades her to mount her horse agin.
It isn't that, but the leftenant had 'nough 'sperience with Injins on his way through here before to know he's liable to run agin them at any time.
I must knock that leftenant out, and that necktie will do it!
No," said Ruggles; "the leftenant couldn't know anything about our being purty near the right spot to catch it.
Then, as the leftenant had knocked off work, it might be he was not feeling very well.
Come now, that won't do; you know my references to allusions was the leftenantand the young lady.
Wal, 'spose I shoot you and the leftenant and the captain and the rest?
I seen the miss and the leftenant start for Sacramento, and being as you took the same course it was plain that you was going there too, if you didn't overtake 'em first.
Not 'zactly in words, but every time I've met him with the gal, I give the leftenant a scowl.
It strikes me as more likely that the leftenant took the horses, so as to prevent our follering him and the gal.
That leftenant ought to have knowed better than to do that," remarked Vose Adams, "his fire can be seen a long way off.
Howsumever, what I say is as much for the leftenant as for you, which the same is that both of you should give up this bus'ness.
We can fix that easy 'nough; let the leftenant stay here while you go with me; I think we can explain matters to the captain and the others so they won't bother the leftenant.
She sailed without my sein' Leftenant Collins, so I thought I was to hear no more on it.
Well," in an hour more the land was quite plain on the starboard bow, and the mate comes aft again to Leftenant Collins.
Ye must know the young leftenant was fell deep in love with a rich Indy Naboob's daughter, which had come over to take her back to the East Ingees.
As you say, Leftenant; Tom Bolder is here to obey Leftenant Blackrook every time.
Why, says he, I made a bet the fore part of summer with Leftenant Oby Knowles, that I could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate.
The leftenant did it as quick as wink, and came back, and says he, I guess it's done.
The enemy lost six killed, and nine wounded; and the captain in command was in the fust lot, brought down by Leftenant Lyon in a hand-to-hand squabble at the side of the road.
I'll do that; but tell the leftenant there is a cavalry force comin' down the road, and I reckon it's the first platoon of our company.
Ride back like a streak o' lightnin', and tell Leftenant Lyon that the gorrillas is cleanin' out a house over yender!
Leftenant Logan," replied a wounded trooper who had a sabre-cut on the side of his face which was bleeding profusely.
You know, Schmidt, that our leftenant has been garried down the river," continued Meyer.
The question is, Kelly, whether what has habbened to theleftenant is murder.
Here are vour in our room, und theleftenant says there are three on the roof, und berhabs we killed vour or vive outside.
You are a leftenant now; and I shall allus call you Leftenant Somers, even if there ain't nobody within ten mile of us.
He is first leftenant of the Home Guards, Colonel Shelby being the captain, and he's going to take you out'n your bed some night and send you to Williamston.
He's an officer in the Home Guards, a leftenant or something, and he allows to hunt them men down the first thing he does.
I heard the leftenant symperthising with the skipper arter that.
There was one young leftenant aboard who said he reminded him o' Nelson, an' him an' the skipper was as thick as two thieves.
He said the major was simply jealous because the men drilled so beautifully, an' then they walked aft, the leftenant talking very earnest an' the skipper shaking his head at something he was saying.
He shouted that out to the mate; an' the young leftenant what was in the mate's boat smoking a big cigar said there'd be quite a run on granite tombstones.
And if it hadn't bin for that Leftenant Calvert, and my givin' him permission to hunt him over the Marsh, we wouldn't have caught him.
For when the Leftenant found the man's old uniform in the bush, he nat'rally kalkilated he must hev got some other duds near by in some underhand way.
It's my vote we let the leftenant tackle the job--what do yer say?
The leftenant has got this thing sized up about proper," he said gruffly.
Speaker of the House, remove this leftenant to the donjon keep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leftenant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
