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Example sentences for "legionnaires"

Lexicographically close words:
legibus; legionaries; legionary; legiones; legionis; legions; legis; legislate; legislated; legislates
  1. He had even drunk too much, once or twice, in the hope of drowning trouble, as Legionnaires do.

  2. They were beautiful, but to Max it seemed the beauty of sadness; and even there, outside the wall which dead Legionnaires had built, everything spoke of the Legion.

  3. For an instant the huge form lay still, while the ring of Legionnaires remained petrified.

  4. It was only the Legionnaires who talked little, and in tones almost humbly suppressed.

  5. There was plenty for the Legionnaires to do in Touggourt.

  6. At home in the same position it could not have been so; but in the Foreign Legion recruits talked freely, even before old Legionnaires to whom the Legion was mother and father and country.

  7. He said "we," because it was more comforting to Valdez that their names should be bracketed together as friends; but as Legionnaires they were already far apart.

  8. April was mild; May warm; June hot; July and August a furnace, but Legionnaires drank no less of the heavy, red Algerian wine than before the summer heat engulfed them.

  9. Legionnaires off duty, young soldiers and old soldiers gathered round, making such remarks as occurred to them, witty or ribald.

  10. On the strength of his triumph he got up among his fellow Legionnaires a petition for the pardon and reinstatement of Corporal St. George.

  11. Nobody but old Legionnaires who've seen a lot of service have got that tip.

  12. She followed him, and runs a cafe for Legionnaires here in Sidi-bel-Abbes.

  13. She had overheard Legionnaires doing it, here in her own Cafe, though they had instantly and stoutly denied it when accused, and had looked furtive and ashamed.

  14. Almost time that the Legionnaires began to drop in for their litre and their tasse--and Carmelita rose and went to the door of the Cafe de la Legion and looked down the street toward the Place Sadi Carnot.

  15. In order to guard against sabotage, the legionnaires will be taking measures that will antagonize the people in Tamanrasset.

  16. If Ibrahim's legionnaires staked out only three armored vehicles at each water hole, they could hold them.

  17. At first our more enthusiastic followers were able to pull everything from heaving Molotov Cocktails into tanks, to pouring sugar in hover-jeep gas tanks, but the legionnaires have both smartened up and gotten very tough.

  18. So Colonel Ibrahim fumed, demanded further orders from mum superiors, and put his legionnaires to work on bigger and better gun emplacements, trenches and pillboxes surrounding Fort Laperinne and Tamanrasset.

  19. Morale was dragging bottom among the legionnaires just a couple of days ago.

  20. The legion does not take any prisoners, because legionnaires are not taken prisoners.

  21. The Legionnaires were relieved and another episode was added to their valiant history.

  22. He gathered the legionnaires round him in a circle and explained to them the constellations, their movements and their relation to each other.

  23. The legionnaires marching in the "peloton des hommes punis" had been punished with a term of imprisonment for small offences in the matters of discipline.

  24. In addition to this, nine-tenths, nay ninety-nine-hundredths of the notes and postal orders which the legionnaires are continuously sent by anxious parents and relations in Europe go to swell the coffers of Madame la Cantiniere.

  25. Like a queen seated on her throne she held sway behind her bar and ruled the crowd of noisy, yelling legionnaires in quiet authority, imposing and comical at the same time.

  26. It has often happened that during the siesta legionnaires have suddenly jumped out of the window, three stories high, without any outward cause whatever.

  27. The police in Algiers know well enough that there are a great many escaped legionnaires among the men who come to the Consulate.

  28. The barrack-gates had long been closed; Smith and I were still sitting on the bench in front of the guard-room, the sergeant and the other legionnaires were lying inside on their bunks.

  29. I have spoken with hundreds and thousands of these legionnaires who have served their time as they lounged about the courtyard of the barracks in Sidi-bel-Abbes, rejoicing that they had done with the Foreign Legion for ever.

  30. The officers do not worry the marching legionnaires with paltry orders, and they are allowed to sing or to smoke as they please.

  31. We old legionnaires will help you--we who know everything and can fix anything.

  32. Try and make legionnaires out of the beggars.

  33. His legionnaires were all forced to submit themselves to his vicious freaks, resistance being punished with the penal section, which is ten times worse in Tonquin than those in Algeria.

  34. These rather unsoldierly caps were worn by all of the legionnaires in the cold African nights.


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