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Example sentences for "paymaster"

Lexicographically close words:
payes; payeth; payin; paying; payit; paymasters; payment; payments; paynes; paynfull
  1. Another exception was when the paymaster made his appearance to pay off the garrison, which he did every two months.

  2. I remained with Captain Kerin's company at Fort Harker for a day or two during which time the paymaster came and paid us for June.

  3. The paymaster admitted that to himself as his ambulance slowly drove in, and his escort of half a dozen troopers came clattering after.

  4. Acting on his advice, the paymaster had decided to break camp soon after 2 o'clock, make coffee, and then start for Rawlins' camp at once.

  5. I thought you said all was strange to you hereabouts" said the paymaster quickly.

  6. The Paymaster to be at Munster on 22nd inst: R.

  7. After the Restoration appointed captain and paymaster of the corps of gentleman-at-arms.

  8. During the Rebellion in 1837, paymaster of the Royal Foresters.

  9. Accompanied the Canadian Voyageurs to Egypt, as paymaster of the contingent, 1885.

  10. The muster-out rolls were taken by Brown to Paymaster Rich of Colonel Mason's command in California.

  11. Pay also was drawn, the paymaster expressing surprise over the fact that every man could write his own name, "something that only one in three of the Missouri volunteers could accomplish.

  12. The paymaster came up with a strong escort and paid off the boys late in October, just as the expedition was breaking up and going for home, and all the officers and men got four months' pay.

  13. I got a big hunk of green sealing-wax from the paymaster and sealed it all up in one package with the memorandum-list inside.

  14. Nearly half his crew had been struck before the launch was submerged, and Paymaster Swan and another man were shot at his side.

  15. The next day I met the paymaster and an escort, who, after inquiring if I were not afraid passed along up river.

  16. That same fall, '62, the Government concluded to make a display of force at a delayed payment to be made to the Chippewas at Mille Lacs and an Iowa regiment was sent with several cannon to accompany the paymaster to Mille Lacs.

  17. But, while we were enjoying a life of comparative comfort in Newbern, with unlimited credit at the sutler's, relying on the arrival of the paymaster some time in the future, other regiments in the department were less fortunate.

  18. So when this poor ignorant paymaster opened up his satchel and spread out his ones and his twos, his fives and his tens, his treasury certificates and his national bank notes, there was a riot.

  19. It was a green paymaster from the Chicago offices who furnished the last straw.

  20. The paymaster shortly after made his appearance, and paid off the men; and thus justice, though long kept back, at last came.

  21. The mutiny for which this man suffered death arose entirely out of the inconsistent and contradictory orders of the Paymaster and the Treasury Department at Washington.

  22. When Paymaster Poulter died, and his pension ceased, she gave up the struggle.

  23. Mrs. Poulter, the senior in residence of the five, was the widow of a retired paymaster in the Navy.

  24. When the Civil War broke out he was paymaster at Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the rank of major.

  25. Exhibited abstract of payment by one Paymaster (Maj.

  26. Bygrave, the paymaster of the Caubul army, was at their head.

  27. The houses of Sir Alexander Burnes and of Captain Johnson, the paymaster of the Shah’s troops, were contiguous to each other in the city.

  28. The treasury of the Shah’s paymaster was before them; and hundreds who had no wrongs to redress and no political animosity to vent, rushed to the spot, hungering after the spoil which lay so temptingly at hand.

  29. It will consist of all those stationed below the gun-decks, except persons belonging to the Surgeon's Division and the Paymaster and his Clerk.

  30. No Paymaster or Assistant Paymaster shall be allowed a clerk in a vessel having the complement of one hundred and seventy-five persons or less, excepting in supply steamers and store vessels.

  31. Paymaster Johnston got on a raft alongside the ship, but in some way was caught by the ship as she went under, as C.

  32. The paymaster could scarcely find time to discharge the bills, so much was his day filled up with doing eternal sums about the stoppages in the pay of the patients.

  33. The captain, navigating lieutenant and paymaster were placed under arrest.

  34. After the arrival of the crew of the Bulldog, Major Colthurst permitted me to assist the paymaster in preparing the evidence, statements, and other documents in connection with the loss of the Bulldog for transmission to England.

  35. For the same reason I will now trouble you with my thoughts and propositions upon two of the greatest under-treasuries: I mean the office of paymaster of the land forces, or treasurer of the army, and that of the treasurer of the navy.

  36. That office, too, has a treasury and a paymaster of its own; and lest the arduous affairs of that important exchequer should be too fatiguing, that paymaster has a deputy to partake his profits and relieve his cares.

  37. As I did not, Sir, deny to the paymaster the natural profits of the bank that was in his hands, so neither would I to the Bank of England.

  38. As the extent of our wars has scattered the accountants under the paymaster into every part of the globe, the grand and sure paymaster, Death, in all his shapes, calls these accountants to another reckoning.

  39. We know, that, if the paymaster should deny himself the advantages of his bank, the public, as things stand, is not the richer for it by a single shilling.

  40. When poverty again was at his elbow a vagrant rumor had told him, with the usual exaggerations, of the rich "find" on the Little Paymaster Claim on Smoky Mountain.

  41. On a tree near-by was nailed a rough, weather-beaten board on which was scrawled "The Little Paymaster Claim.

  42. He's been out with a whole bloomin' troop ever since he got word the paymaster 'ad bin stuck up.

  43. We were fixed to get the paymaster on that trip.

  44. Two men killed, two more crippled, and the paymaster raving like a maniac.

  45. Gordon MacRae and Sarge Flood, in the Queen's name I arrest you for the robbery of Paymaster Ingstram on the MacLeod trail and the murder of two of his escort, and I warn you that anything you may say will be used against you.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paymaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accountant; auditor; bookkeeper; bursar; cashier; chamberlain; controller; curator; depositary; paymaster; purser; receiver; steward; treasurer; trustee