And here he was a "sub" in Uncle Sam's stalwart infantry with three classmates serving under him in the ranks and half a dozen more, either as junior officers or enlisted men, in the camps of the volunteers.
Noblemen joined the army and navy as volunteers, and in the ranks there were no pressed men.
And Arthur Basset bowed his noble head to the decree, and fell back to the ranks like a hero--no king, but a true man.
To a rule which thus answers all remonstrances against its existence by a quiet telling off of its ranks and a faultless marching of its determined columns, what further argument can be opposed but that of bayonet to bayonet?
In its ranks were the Noble Guard, the Swiss Guard, the Cardinals, and many other divisions, each in its own imposing and picturesque costume.
But, though all France rushed to arms in 1793 to defend the National liberties and soil, yet Napoleon, in the zenith of his power and glory, could only fill the ranks of his legions by the abhorred Conscription.
Biot had entered the ranks of science by way of the Ecole Polytechnique and the artillery service.
The history of science reveals men of all grades of intelligence and of all social ranks cooperating in the cause of human progress.
A brilliant literary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox.
At the same time other ranks of society are represented in the history of science by Boyle, Cavendish, Lavoisier.
Then the Cossack ranks first in the art," exclaimed Forester; "for nothing can be more simple or easier than to take a slice of a live ox and hang it up in the sun for ten or fifteen minutes.
Opposition, while cheers of defiance were heard along the densely crowded ranks of the Ministerial party.
Europe twenty or thirty thousand lives in a month; and that not only the men, but even the women of all ranks were passionately fond of these shows.
The social ranks were sharply divided from each other, and the inferior orders paid great formal deference to their superiors.
And the difference between the two ranks is as obvious in their walk and general deportment as in their stature and size, the nobles bearing themselves with a natural dignity and grace which are wanting in their social inferiors.
The Society of the Areois was wealthy and highly esteemed; members were drawn from all social ranks and greatly prided themselves on belonging to it.
In Rarotonga four ranks of society were recognised.
As such treatment was generally too costly for the poor and even the middle ranks of society, families belonging to these classes were usually obliged to inter their dead on the first or second day after the decease.
They were divided into sevenranks or classes, the members of which were distinguished from each other by their tattoo marks; the greater the amount of the tattooing, the higher the rank of the person.
Chiefs had always a separate eating-house, and even people of the lower ranks had one such house to every six or seven families for the men.
For whatever we may think of Euhemerism as a universal explanation of the gods, there can be no doubt that in many lands the ranks of the celestial hierarchy have been largely recruited by the ghosts of men of flesh and blood.
A strict subordination of ranks was established which has been aptly compared to the feudal system.
Subscriptions will also be received from those desiring it sent to soldiers in the ranks at half price, but in such cases it must be mailed from the office of publication.
In nominating the Khalifa Abdullah, the Mahdi threw the firebrand of discord amongst the hitherto united ranks of Mahdieh, and thereby greatly weakened his cause.
Every now and then a halt was made, when a number of riders would dash forward at full gallop, poising their lances ready for the thrust, and then would return to the ranks amidst the loud applause of the others.
I looked down at her gravely, noticing how young and fresh and slender she seemed--bright as the blaze of sunshine in which she stood--and then I pointed towards the long ranks of sheaves and the sea of stately ears.
Oat sheaves ridging the bleached prairie blazed in yellow ranks before my heavy eyes, and each heave of the binder's arms flung out behind me a truss of golden wheat.
Is it not possible that this Malduz the magician may be the original of Mauduiz li Sages whom Chretien ranks as eighth of Arthur's knights?
It is not without and beyond the ranks of the agricultural community only that we need look for those who lessen the intellectual character of rural industry, and of the rural life.
The inferior clergy, living and recruiting its ranks amongst the people, shared the ignorance and rudeness of the latter.
With the King at their head, who had led them to victory on so many hard-fought fields, the Danes drove back their savage foes time after time, literally hewing their way through their ranks with sword and battle-axe.
In single file they walked between the ranks of the enemy, who stood with inverted spears, watching them in sullen silence.
At the same time the fall in prices rendered many settlers unable to fulfil their obligations, and, upon the loss of their properties, drove them into the towns, where they swelled the ranks of the unemployed.
The elections resulted in a slight accession of strength to the ranks of the Ministerialists and Labour members.
On a second glance, Syme saw that the glittering pattern was really made up of ranks and ranks of rifles and revolvers, closely packed or interlocked.
The ranks break, for a time the whole becomes a confused mass, while they all scream and quack at the same time.
The Society never sleeps, Signor, and it has trained the men in its ranks to remember as much.
The others, following more sedately, saw him reach and disappear among the ranks of white-uniformed men, whose cummerbunds and tarbooshes winked a cheerful scarlet against the dun fallow or green cropping of the fields.
The vine poles fell in ranks before its blast; the lava dust whirled up in spirals; the pebbles clattered along the face of the shingle.
Little more than vermin; their ranks are replenished all too quickly as it is!
He opened the assembly on Whitsunday the 26th of May: he officiated pontifically, and preached; and he deemed it his right to inspect the ranks of this holy army of the Lord, in which he found everything in good order.
The President was "convinced that in the ranks of those who do not ordinarily seek poor law relief there is evidence of much and increasing privation," among persons "usually in regular employment.
Nangolat was thrown into the midst of his warriors, while his rifle, its stock shattered, flailed into the ranks and knocked two warriors down.
Nangolat, naked except for a breechcloth, stepped from the ranks of Ifugao warriors.
Scotty leaped from the truck, leaving the unmanned vehicle to bounce across the meadow directly toward the ranks of the Ifugaos!
We constitute a large society in the world, and our ranks bid fair to largely swell in this land of Practical Men.
This remarkable book, which has been recommended by bishops to theological students as the best available for many purposes, is the standard exposition of Quakerism, and undoubtedly ranks among the classics of its period.
Though professedly a vision, and treating of spiritual things, it ranks with Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels as one of the great realistic books of the English language.
As a classic of travel this ranks with the similar works of Drury and Mariner, which also received literary form from intelligent collaborators, and it may have served in some measure as an example to Defoe.
As a poet he ranks with those who have been said to be stars alike of evening and of morning.
