The former had renounced the privilege which belonged to him, as officer in the Reserves, and moreover, as an example, had not claimed his position among those who were wounded in the war, still however wearing his uniform.
The informer introduced himself as "non-commissioned officer Patke, retired, member of a military association, and candidate for the private constabulary.
The spectacled gentleman was the Landrath of the circuit, and the cavalry officer was no other than Paul Haber, now Herr Paul von Haber.
He dances well, and is very pleased if people take him for an officer in civilian's clothes.
They debase her ideals by decreeing that henceforth the officer is to be the national patron saint to whom the people are to offer up their devotion and worship.
The former non-commissioned officer had apparently reached the goal of his ambitions and become a private detective.
A week later, to the very day, early in the morning a police officer brought Wilhelm an official document summoning him to appear that afternoon before the head police authorities in the Stadtvogtei.
People say already that it is the officer and not the schoolmaster who has made Germany great.
Thus, a jewel-eyed girl of half English origin (a wounded British officer is amiably nursed in a castle near the famous Peninsula battlefield, etc.
As the senior officer of the party, his was the privilege of embarking last and disembarking first.
Show it to the Officer of the Watch," he said, and turned again to the wire hawser.
I just put my fingers in my ears and shut my eyes--I'm the officer of the after turret.
The night had been a convivial one, and Leading Seaman Biggers overlooked the gift until, coming on board, the keen-eyed officer of the watch drew his attention to it.
Truly a man of iron, reflected the Signal-boy as he saluted and ran aft in search of the Officer of the Watch.
The Officer of the Watch received the intelligence with almost equal unconcern, but when the boy had departed out of earshot he said something in an undertone and added: "Just my blooming luck.
Jeremiah Casey, Petty Officer and Captain's Coxswain, hauled himself nimbly up the Jacob's ladder to the quarter-boom and came inboard.
The head of the Officer of the Watch appeared through the open skylight overhead.
The man whose business it is as Executive Officer to control the affairs of close on a thousand of his fellow men must of necessity sometimes learn curiously intimate details of their lives.
He is a navalofficer (I hope you like this officer's name?
French she speaks perfectly, learned from the French officer who taught her fortification, M.
The cocked gold-edged hat of an officer appeared on horseback in the midst, and there was silence from all but the baaing sheep.
One does not ask questions of an officer of the law.
There was something curious about the chestnut vender, and the eye of the good officer grew narrow with suspicion.
The officer was out to see her yesterday and she's got no money to pay her bills.
But the officer says you never roast any chestnuts and he thinks you're a fake.
I have not quailed before this man's eye" (and he spurned the clay of the officer as he spoke with a revengeful scorn) "without treasuring up its aspect in my heart of hearts.
A carriage drove up, anofficer and some ladies in evening dress, wrapped in their shawls, got out; a second carriage followed.
Surely I am not speaking to a headstrong boy who breaks the toy that he no longer cares about, but to an officer and a gentleman who is accustomed to keep his word strictly.
Do you know anything of her family, again setting aside outward circumstances, even the smallest fact, which would and ought to hinder any other officer who was not in your peculiar position from forming a connection with her family!
There he stood still: "One thing more; the failure of consent on the part of the fathers hinders a marriage at least in this case, in which a portionless officer is the suitor.
Reinhold, "an officer of his high character, of his vast services to the nation--is it possible!
The Baroness suddenly stopped speaking; the round glasses of her pince-nez seemed to flash forth angry flames at the sight of the confidential manner of the General towards the young officer of the reserve.
Since that night four and twenty years have passed; I have seen the officer often and often; naturally he did not know me; I should have known him among millions.
The officer may have thought it was a personal attack; he spurred his horse which reared and threw me down.
At that moment the moon, which had been hidden behind black clouds, shone out; by its light I recognised distinctly in the officer my opponent at the barricade.
I recommend that Congress authorize that officer to cause the names of such persons to be stricken from the pension rolls.
A judicious officer conducted the detachment, and stores of European merchandize were confided to him for the purposes of traffic.
I tell you as a gentleman, and anofficer holding a high commission from the king of Spain, that, though the heavens and the earth may mingle before my eyes, the resolution which I once make, I never change!
The charge of the expedition was confided to Don Pedro Melendez de Avilez, an officer particularly famous among his countrymen for his deeds of heroism in the New World.
He felt that the spirit of this officer was widely spreading in the garrison.
An oldofficer had in vain solicited a pension during the administration of the Duc de Choiseul.
During the American war a general officer in the service of the United States advanced with a score of men under the English batteries to reconnoitre their position.
In the evening nothing more was necessary for any well-dressed man to procure admission to the Queen's card parties than to be named and presented, by some officer of the Court, to the gentleman usher of the card-room.
From that moment Kate never saw an officer without fear and trembling, and officers were everywhere.
That officer is the United States marshal, originally selected, probably, for no better reason than that, as there was such an officer in every State whose services could be made available, it was better to use him than to create a new office.
The two successive intrusions were to us inexplicable, unless, in the light of succeeding events, we were to regard the priest as a detective officer or spy.
No officer of the government seems to have had any supervision of the work of preparing it for the press.
They bear no relation to the amount of work performed, are irregular in their operation, are obscure in their manner of calculation, and impose needless labor alike on the officer to be paid and the census office.
But she made a very mild use of them mostly, predicting "good health and a good fig-season" to an American officer who did not grow figs and who had the constitution of a horse.
The Commanding Officerof the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The General Officer Commanding wishes to take this opportunity of recording an appreciation of the gallantry of the officers and men of the Ulster Division.
He is proud beyond description, as everyofficer and man in the Division may well be, of the magnificent example of sublime courage and discipline which the Ulster Division has given to the Army.
But the Company Officer had by now appreciated his tactics, and by his work undoubtedly prevented a great number of casualties.
Marshall, posted to "B" Company, afterwards proved to be the only officer of the 11th Battalion who went over the top on the 1st July without getting wounded.
A few days before we had left Borden we had been paraded, and in the course of a ten minutes' harangue, the Commanding Officer had dwelt upon the good name of the battalion, and its excellent conduct while in England.
This officer had been with D Company until January, 1916.
The General Officer Commanding the Division deeply regrets the heavy losses of officers and men.
Wounded; son of Mr. Smith of Banbridge; before the war was an officer in the Lisburn contingent of the U.
My father was an officer of the sea, and was killed at sea, as he was coming home to marry my mother, Isopel Berners.
The mayoralty finally went to Marinus Willett, an officer of distinguished service in the Revolutionary war, whose gallantry at Fort Schuyler in the summer of 1777 won him a sword from Congress and the admiration of General Washington.
Burr, with the rank of major, acted as aide to General Putnam; Hamilton, as an officer of artillery, was soon to become an aide to Washington.
Under these distressing circumstances, the boarding officer of the Leopard took the deserters and sailed for Halifax.
Dix had inherited loyalty from his father, an officer in the United States army, and he was quick to strike for his country when South Carolina raised the standard of rebellion in 1861.
To aid him in his duties, the Constitution provided for the election of a lieutenant-governor, who was made the presiding officer of the Senate.
He went further, and decided that whenever the law omitted to limit the number of officers, the Council might do it, and whenever an officer must be commissioned annually, another might be put in his place at the expiration of his commission.
Granger belonged to Connecticut, and, except William Eustis, about to retire as an inefficient secretary of war, was the only cabinet officer from a northern State.
After the officer had helped himself and condescended to relax his stern features into the semblance of a smile the young man bid him good night and resumed his way toward the hotel.
At first Jimmy thought they were the perpetrators of the deed, but almost immediately he recognized one of them as O'Donnell, the erstwhile traffic officer who had been promoted to a detective sergeancy since Jimmy had first met him.
As the Lizard's taxi raced away the officercircled quickly and started in pursuit.
The officer turned roughly upon the stranger, shook him viciously a few times, and then gave him a mighty shove which all but sent him sprawling into the gutter.
Jimmy had permitted his captive to rise, but he still held tightly to his wrist as the officer confronted them.
It was called Titcomb's, from the officer in charge, Major Moses Titcomb of Hale's regiment.
Perhaps nothing about the whole history of this expedition is more strange than that this officer should have remained wholly ignorant of its being at Canso for nearly three weeks.
The garrison of Louisburg had been, in fact, in open revolt, the outbreak proving so serious that the commanding officer had begged his government to replace the disaffected troops with others, who could be depended upon.
He unhesitatingly wrote the letter as requested, it was sent to Duchambon by a flag, and was delivered by an officer who understood French, in order to observe its effect.
Pepperell himself was to have no share in this business, except as a looker-on, but was to put his troops under the command of an officer of marines who should take his orders from Warren only.
Shortly after, an officer of the palace entered, and desired Mr. Pizanni and myself to accompany him to the Sultan's private palace, a distance of several hundred yards.
On approaching the group, and inquiring what was the matter, I perceived four Sardinian soldiers bearing a sick officer upon a stretcher.
We went next to the Sanatorium, and, in going up the hill, called upon the sick officer who was in Dr.
I did not know the way to head-quarters, so I inquired of an officer which was the shortest road.
I removed from the General Hospital to a very comfortable hut, then recently occupied by an officer of the Commissariat, comprising three rooms, a stable, and yard.
Turning to an officer on his left, Lord Raglan said, "Will you allow me to introduce Monsieur Soyer?
Henderson, and myself, returned together by the same road, Miss Nightingale intending to visit an officer patient who was at the doctor's house.
An officer who happened to be present observed, 'You're right.
As soon as they came to anchor, Commodore Carney and another officer came on board to examine the vessel's papers.
Both his parents were immigrants from Great Britain, his father, originally anofficer in the merchant service, but at the time of Irving's birth a considerable merchant, having come from the Orkneys and his mother from Falmouth.
He was kindly noticed by Henry Hervey, a gay officer of noble family, who happened to be quartered there.
An officer called at the house where the friends were staying to serve the order.
On December 16th there arrived at Indore Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, the officer who had been nominated by Lord Canning to conduct the operations of the body of troops thenceforth known as the Central India Field Force.
Near the bridge an officer reported to him that "Windham's garrison was at its last gasp.
He dined with the mess the same night, when the president rose and proposed his health in connection with the day's inspection of the regiment and the exertions he had made as commanding officer to produce such results.
A thoroughly good understanding soon grew up between him and them; not only was he commandingofficer of the brigade; he was also regarded as somewhat in the character of the chief of a clan.
But there is a certain barrenness in honours when unaccompanied by promotion, and it had fallen to the lot of the son of the Glasgow carpenter to serve for eighteen years in the capacity of a field-officer commanding a regiment.
By the end of the year he resigned the command of the army of India, and was succeeded by Sir William Gomm, an old brother officer of Colin Campbell in the Ninth in the Peninsula days.
His latest honour was the highest to which a British officer can attain.
The arrival of the regiment at Newcastle was welcomed by the magistrates, colliery owners, and county gentlemen of Northumberland, who in their apprehension of a Chartist rising leaned upon its commanding officer for the maintenance of order.
Mr. Forbes-Mitchell[5] says that the Sikh officer was killed on the way and that the two European officers of the Sikh regiment were wounded, misfortunes which caused a temporary halt on the part of the Punjaubis.
It had been commanded by General Penny, a gallant officer who had fallen in a night skirmish, and the command had now devolved upon Brigadier Richmond Jones.
It was remarked that no general or staff officer had quitted the trenches, and that what leading there was devolved entirely on the regimental officers.
The treaty conferred on the Resident unprecedented powers, and Major Henry Lawrence, an officer of the Company's artillery, became in effect the successor of Runjeet Singh.
An officer was about to do so; but the judge motioned him to desist.
The rest of the appalling objurgation was inarticulate, as the monster, foaming and sputtering, was dragged by an officerfrom the dock.
Nothing but an Admiralty order, the officer in command candidly told him, should effect his liberation.
I lost sight of Molinos for a long time, and when I next came upon him it was in the Rookery of Westminster, in a low lodging-house, where I was searching with an officer for stolen goods.
Swiftly, Everett opened a dressing-case which stood on a table near him: the officer heard the sharp clicking of a pistol-lock, and turned swiftly round.
An officer placed himself beside the wretched murderer as well as forger, and I resumed the cross-examination of the witness.
The ordinary Council is a somewhat informal gathering as regards a presiding officer or officers, and, also, in respect of that essential feature of a quorum, for which similar bodies among ourselves hold out so exactingly.
Any intelligent young naval officer would have done it just as well, and would have acquitted himself with zeal and discretion, to gain the good opinion of the ministers.
I went out with the officer who took me to the posting-place, and a minute afterwards my carriage drew up.
The officer was the first to enter, and in two minutes came out again and brought me in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
