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Example sentences for "reveille"

Lexicographically close words:
revealeth; revealing; revealings; revealment; reveals; revel; revelation; revelations; revelatory; reveled
  1. This is the third time since reveille I've had to reprimand you for chuckling like a school-boy—twice in ranks, and now again at inspection.

  2. Next morning Mr. Jennings did not appear at reveille at all.

  3. The --th is the only regiment I wanted; but they have to go to reveille and stables before breakfast, which wouldn't suit me at all.

  4. Reveille was just being sounded up at the garrison.

  5. The other morning my Pa drew forth the copies of the Reveille from his book case, and commenced reading them for Ma's amusement.

  6. Got in about five o’clock just as the reveille was blowing in the other lines.

  7. Reveille blows at six o’clock and we have to answer the roll-call at 6.

  8. There was one joy--reveille could ring out on the dawning day and there was no longer imperative necessity to spring from a warm bed and make ablutions in ice-water.

  9. My husband lifted me out of the wagon, when reveille sounded, into the tent, and by the light of a tallow candle I had my bath and got into my clothes, combing my hair straight back, as it was too dark to part it.

  10. I come to wash away no stain Upon your wasted lea; I raise no banners, save the ones The forest waves to me: Upon the mountain side, where Spring Her farthest picket sets, My reveille awakes a host Of grassy bayonets.

  11. The remainder of the day was spent resting, but it was known that reveille was to sound at midnight, and that we were to make a big effort next day.

  12. Too tired to want much food, the men sank down with the delightful nightcap that reveille might again be expected at 3.

  13. Reveille at 2, off at 3, was our time-table for the next day.

  14. To such a state was the column now reduced that the General, who had ordered reveille for 2 a.

  15. This proved one of the coldest nights of the winter, and there was ice instead of water in most of the water-bottles next morning when reveille went at 3.

  16. After reveille the next morning we found Captain Marsh and his comrades, but not one of them answered to "roll-call.

  17. As we came into camp we found that an early reveille had been sounded, and the troops were about ready to march.

  18. We remained but two days at this Missouri camp, when the reveille sounded early in the morning of August 1st, and the troops were astir.

  19. Reveille sounded early one morning, and after a hurried breakfast of coffee and hard tack, the headquarters bugle sounded "strike tents," and the city of canvas was soon razed to the ground.

  20. Illustration] The campaign hat, while still de rigueur for the less formal functions of army society, such as reveille and mess, is rapidly going out of date.

  21. He was thus listening to them, when, early in the morning, a Rebel bugler sounded "as pretty a reveille as I ever heard.

  22. Many a reveille would sound before his full awakening to all that the two little knights had made possible for him, but the sweet, dim dream of the future that stole into his grateful little heart was an earnest of what was in store for him.

  23. She wished that she could be back again at the fort, long enough to live one of those beautiful old days from reveille to taps.

  24. Merrily rang the reveille as "jocund day" came riding o'er the misty mountain-tops.

  25. It was Mr. Hastings's duty that week to supervise reveille roll-call and attend morning stables.

  26. And so before the reveille bugles were singing through the wintry morning along the slopes of the Rockies, the telegraph had roused the officers at all the posts along the railway for five hundred miles.

  27. The spy not appearing, he says that he and Stuart waited for him till daylight, and then rode to his house, just as the reveille sounded in the Yankee camps, only 400 paces distant.

  28. We bivouacked that night in the pines near Catlett's, and were awakened in the morning by the reveille in the Union camps, which were a mile or so distant on either side of us.

  29. We slept soundly in our bivouac in the pines, and early in the morning were awakened by the reveille that called us to arms.

  30. At daylight no reveille sounded in the Confederate camps; but Jackson moved silently on, and turned to the east.

  31. Santa Anna was very considerate in not having reveille till a late hour, and then it was sounded in one command after another, perhaps to impress us with the number he had.

  32. The now monotonous artillery awakened us this morning to reveille before we had made any parched ---- for coffee, the unfeeling hirelings of toute du monde!

  33. Mr. Prescott was clever enough to prevent my pouncing on Mr. Holmes at the reveille gun tonight," mused the O.

  34. Even a fishline is rope enough to hang a cadet when he gets into trouble too close to the reveille gun.

  35. Before reveille the next morning Bert Dodge stood up for nearly two rounds before the sledgehammer fists of Mr. Furlong.

  36. Presently Dick's stroll took him over in the neighborhood of "Execution Hollow," the depression in the ground below where the reveille gun is stationed.

  37. For Holmes was bending a bit low, a hundred yards or so away, and stealing toward the fieldpiece that does duty as reveille gun.

  38. In another instant mischievous Cadet Holmes would actually be slipping a shell into the reveille gun, if it were not already loaded, and then attaching a cord, to lay a trap for some other unsuspicious cadet.

  39. Reveille was sounded on a bugle at 5:30 every morning.

  40. Shortly after reveille one morning word was given to hoist the anchors.

  41. Reveille awoke us in the morning to discover on the one side of us the world-renowned Fortress Monroe and on the other the equally famous Monitor.

  42. Reveille sounded at five o'clock on the morning of March 2d, and at seven the corps turned toward the old camp, at which it arrived, after a severe march through the mud, at sunset the same day.

  43. When the reveille is sounded hammocks must be stowed within fifteen minutes.

  44. Wake us just one-half hour before reveille with coffee and everything else good you can rustle, and, Harry, waken me before Mr. Cameron.

  45. Barry hated to waken him, but reveille was but a bare thirty minutes off, and he had an experiment to work upon his friend.

  46. As they were repeating together the prayer "Our Father," the notes of the reveille sounded shrilly over the camp.

  47. They told us it would be Reveille and Retreat and one day’s K.

  48. First, you’re out of luck at Reveille ’cause the Top Kick can see you ain’t got no leggin’s on.

  49. The morning gun-fire and reveille with the beating of the drum was at 6.

  50. Twelve minutes from the close of reveille (which will be shown by three taps on the drum) are allowed for lashing hammocks and to leave the berth deck.

  51. I must be at Warrenton at reveille in the morning, but my horse will easily make the distance if I start by one o'clock.

  52. The dawn was breaking now, and a score of bugles were musically sounding the reveille in the camps round about.

  53. They have their guard house near Jones's Hotel, and I was startled to hear the retreat and reveille beat there.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reveille" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.