And that evening the plebes of B Company congregated for an hour about the tent to see the preparations of their first representatives.
There were plebes who came to Geordie and told him he was making a mistake.
I held conversation with half a dozen—class-mates and plebes both—when I happened to be down by the tank.
And that evening, as Geordie returned to his room, all in a glow from the brisk walk, he found a party of plebes just breaking up and scattering to their quarters.
Regular hours, regulated exercise, sound sleep were all combining to bring about among the plebes the very "pink of condition.
Nine out of ten of the plebes and their relatives pronounce it inhuman and barbarous so long as it applies to them or theirs.
All the plebes began to look forward with eagerness or apprehension to the midwinter turning-point—the January examination.
He went so far as to say that he believed no Third Class man had anything to do with the business; it was the work of plebes who were jealous of the partiality shown Graham by the adjutant.
Once in camp, of course, the yearlings not on duty over plebes took every opportunity to play the customary tricks and enforce the usual "taking down" process.
The plebes spent the last evening in camp listening to the distant music of the hop, and singing, reciting, and dancing for the benefit of the returned Second Class men.
Old Scad" was the irreverent title given to a gray-headed lieutenant of artillery by a previous class, and plebes rarely fail to adopt such nicknames.
Later he was lying on his blankets revolving matters in his mind, wondering what he could do to restore his waning popularity, when he heard some plebes chatting eagerly in the B Company tent just back of his own.
Then there were plebes coming down there frequently; I had more or less chaff with them, and Major-General Frazier among them.
One or two plebes in C and D Companies determined to be on hand to see Graham through, though rare indeed are there cases of unfair play.
I congratulate you, mister," spoke a low but hearty voice from the doorway of a tent the two plebes were passing.
The old plebes moved up a peg, also, and became the new yearlings, vested with all the power of hazing and otherwise oppressing and training the plebes.
We've something to tell you, Dodge," Anstey continued almost in a whisper, as the four plebes stood in a close bunch.
Only two of the new plebes had been dropped, they having been found wholly and absolutely unfit to keep the brain-fagging pace of academic work at West Point.
Hot, dusty, perspiring, first class men, yearlings and plebes came back to camp in detachments from various tours of drum and instruction.
Hence these new plebes were not to be treated very searchingly in the academic work.
Plebes are not allowed campstools in the summer encampment--probably on the theory that so much luxury would be certain to demoralize them.
Dodge has been found," was the smiling word passed around as this detachment of plebes was dismissed inside camp limits.
As the weeks of hard work passed, and no more mysteries fell over post number three it began to be felt that plebes might thereafter walk there on the darkest night without worry.
Dodge not only believed the hoax to be impossible, with him on number three, but he was incautious enough to talk about it freely among the plebesduring the day.
I talked yesterday morning told me about pranks that had been played in past years upon plebes who had the late tour of post number three.
The three plebes returned the delighted girls to their seats, and the cadets, excusing themselves from every one, rushed out into the hall, there to hold an angry and excited consultation.
We've licked them and outwitted them at every turn, something no plebes have ever dared to do before.
They let her in to sit with him an' talk to him where they won't let us plebes near him.
That it was a pleasant custom to make theplebes dress up in masquerade and give a parade or something.
They had a moment later when they discovered to their horror what the plebes were going to do.
It began the very first night that the plebes entered camp.
Most plebes take their hazing as fun, rather unpleasant, but still nothing dangerous.
The seven were about as nervous and anxious as seven plebes could possibly be.
The plebes of course were not put on guard until they had been fairly well trained in other duties.
It looks funny to see the pretty girls sitting and the ugly ones dancing; and every one began to see that the plebes were having decidedly the best of the bargain.
Thus he did not notice the state of affairs in Mark's tent, where six horrified, frightened plebeswere huddled, gasping.
The sixplebes had leaped to their feet as one man, with a wild hurrah!
Just as the strokes were pealing forth Plebes Briggs and Ellis came up the street and stood at the front pole of Dunstan's tent.
But, as the ordeals of both of the once frisky plebes became more severe, the interest of those outside increased.
Fortunately both plebes were too much astonished to utter a sound.
What I object to is annoying plebes simply because they are green men.
Can you two near-plebes find time to drop in this evening, at just 8.
Even had Briggs and Ellis been inclined to "show up" their hazers, they knew too well the fate that would await such a pair of plebes at the hands of the cadet corps.
It will never be possible to stamp out wholly the hazing of plebes at West Point.
True, some score and a half of plebes were found deficient, and sent back to their homes.
Yet everyone of these plebes received many a handshake from the upper classmen and a hearty good wish for success in life.
The poor plebes who had failed had been mournfully departing, one at a time.
The new plebes were looking forward to summer encampment with a mixture of longing and dread---the latter emotion on account of the hazing that might come to them in the life under the khaki-colored canvas.
Among the plebes was a rather timid-looking, red-cheeked lad, who seemed even further out of his element than did his awkward companions.
Among theplebes there were two lads who seemed all-round athletes.
It was there plebes generally received their first hazing, and there most of the fights between the cadets took place.
The boys on the floor below the Cockloft were out by this time, and they were enjoying the spectacle quite as much as the plebes above.
Near sunrise, with a company of plebes under his command, he was beating a piece of woods along the bank of a river about four miles from the academy.
This sort of a question, put to a plebe with all sorts of twists and variations, was time-honored at Fardale, whither it had come from West Point, where plebes are puzzled with some variation of it year after year.
A new squad of plebes had been admitted to the school, and the yearlings, mad with joy at being released from plebedom themselves, were trying every scheme their fertile brains could devise for making miserable the lives of their successors.
Among the plebes there were a few who stood head and shoulders above their companions in athletics.
So it came about that, on the day that the plebes marched into camp, with their bundles under their arms, Merriwell found an opportunity to take Davis into his tent and instruct him in cleaning shoes and setting things to order.
Some of the plebes were negligent and regardless of the fact that the January examinations were close at hand, while others were "boning" steadily, doing their level best to stand well in their classes.
In the course of the next hour the youngsters told these new midshipmen much about the life at the Naval Academy that it would otherwise have taken the two plebes long to have found out for themselves.
When the meal was over, while many of the upper class men remained outside in the warm June air, the plebes were ordered to go to their rooms and start in making themselves familiar with the thousand-and-more regulations.
It is plain enough that both of you plebes need a good deal of practice in the use of the word, sir.
From one of the visiting plebes came an incautious giggle.
Then they stood there, glaring at the two poorplebes in "cit.
Your plebes are getting away from you, Miriam," exclaimed the older girl in a bantering tone.
One by one the plebes returned to their meeting place.
As it swung round the drive and stopped, the plebes thronged about it and greeted Chester Arlington with cheers.
He was thinking of his promise to Mrs. Arlington not to interfere with the ambition of her son, a promise that had been made in the presence of June and the gathering of plebes about the carriage.
She was dressed in a tasty and stylish manner, and she was the kind of a pretty girl to set the plebes to making "goo-goo" eyes.
So help me, I believe nine-tenths of the plebes are here to give him a greeting!
The plebes were indignant, as they lost a representative on the committee, George Hardy, a first class man, being chosen to fill the vacancy.
The plebes wanted a leader, and Chester soon secured the position, which he determined to hold at any cost.
The plebes alone cannot elect him to the committee.
Two or three of the plebes heard her and hurried toward Dick at once.
Lieutenant Denton asked the fellow Prescott, who is a cadet captain, to keep a watch and stop plebes before they had a chance to get on the other side of the guard line.
All the plebesare good little boys to-night, and safely tucked in their cribs.
If you intercept any plebes while they are still within camp limits, demand of them their reasons for being out of their tents.
You were to intercept plebes who might try to run the guard, and to send them back to their tents.
Keep yourself in the background a bit, and see if you can stop anyplebes who may be prowling before they have had a chance to get outside the guard lines.
However, the special duty imposed upon Cadet Prescott for this night related to plebes, and plebes do not go to the hops.
Well, I knew the point at which plebes were in the habit of getting past the guard line, and so did Prescott, I guess.
Plebes are not expected to escort young ladies to these concerts.
Now, our plebes are men very new to the West Point discipline, and they do not appreciate the seriousness of their conduct.
Even the plebes themselves had a hearty laugh over it when they were dismissed.
Nine plebes out of ten almost invariably challenge thus, "Who comes here?
Quite often in camp two robust plebes are selected and ordered to report at a specified tent just after the battalion returns from supper.
I have known plebes to be permitted to do any thing they chose while off duty.
In the afternoon the plebes have nothing to do in the way of duty till four o'clock.
He surveys them carefully and recognizes what is meant by "the plebes have to do all the policing," servants being an unknown luxury.
Fortunately, plebes are allowed to select their own tent mates; it may readily be believed the four devils of A company went together.
Dye know, I can't see why we plebessuffer so, bah Jove!
Evening came, and the plebes being lined up in barracks area the roll was called, the "orders" read, and then the reports of the day.
And, strange to say, the same thought was in the minds of seven particularplebes that stayed behind.
Having been thus easily rid of their unpleasant enemies, the plebes set out in high feather for home.
In fact, scarcely had the plebes scattered to their tents when that particular plebe hotel was surrounded.
The excitement among plebes and cadets alike was intense, and it was known far and wide that Mark Mallory, the "B.
The surgeons were busy that afternoon in trying to piece together several plebes who had been knocked all to pieces by the yearlings for being too "B.
Having been assigned to their tents, the plebes were set to work under the brief instructions of a cadet corporal at the task of arranging their household effects.
The plebes made their way up the company streets and the cadet officers in charge, under the supervision of the "tacs," assigned them to their tents.
With this purpose in view, Cadet Murray stole away from his companions and set out for barracks, around which the luckless plebes were clustered.
That morning also the plebes had been "sized" for companies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plebes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: commune; people; populace
