Then on we went through the town, marching at attention, with everybody out on the streets to watch the last of the rookies of 1916.
Seeing they could not get away, the men were actually ready to fight, and I think had we been rookies we might have had to scrap for it; but seeing an officer they saluted and sullenly submitted.
It was a welcome relief to turn in at a big gate, pass between brick buildings, and come onto a great grass field across which we marched directly toward a building with a long portico, on which the sight of rookies waiting promised us rest.
With our luggage we poured out into the field, evidently our training ground, since beyond it were tented streets, with some big open-sided buildings that doubtless had some military use, since we saw rookies going in and out.
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookiesin their time-- So was them that fought at Waterloo!
Once aboard a small steamer that flew the flag of the Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, Corporal Dodds watched his two young rookies as though he suspected they would desert if they got a chance.
When the evening meal was finished our young rookies found that they had the evening to themselves.
How the young rookiessprang to obey, their eyes shining with interest!
Shortly therookies and their guide entered the adjutant's office.
The revolver was discharged, but harmlessly into the air, as both rookies tackled the corporal and bore him to the ground.
Both rookies spent their time on one of the car platforms, hanging far out at either side to get better views, as well as glimpses down steep cliffs into gullies below.
You men will go on post again at two in the morning," announced Corporal Sanders, who was in command of the relief to which the rookies belonged.
He did not look to see whether the rookies were behind him, but they were.
There, you ostriches, you have the interval from man to man as well as rookies can get it inside of a week.
Both our young rookies hung about until they heard first call for parade.
There were always new duties to be learned, but our young rookies had now picked up the habit of learning so easily and quickly that everything seemed a matter of course.
Soon the fall-in order was given, and the older rookies fell in under arms.
It was very dark, but the rookies could see a small rowboat head into the beach just a little way below them.
In an instant the rookies left the ranks, glad of a bit of play-time before supper.
The three or four rookiesit contained beside themselves were wholly occupied with their own affairs.
Like himself the other rookiespresent were breathlessly awaiting the outcome.
On the train going to camp they meet two rookies with whom they become chums.
Sound of the bugle brought him to his feet with a wild leap and a snort that nearly convulsed his comrades, and brought the eyes of a dozen or more of rookies to bear upon him.
Proud of his ability to "whip these rookies into shape" he showed considerably more patience with the still clumsy recruit, and the end of the morning drill found Ignace again escaping the dreaded awkward squad.
The few rookies that had been present when the fight began now gathered about the combatants with noisy exclamations of "Give it to him, Poley!
That's more than I can say of some of those rookies in our barrack.
The drill sergeant's supposed to go easy with rookies for the first day or two.
On my way back through Probation I chanced upon a group of rookies studying for their examinations and was surprised to remember how much I had contrived to forget.
But in the middle of it all the examiner yelled out in one of those sarcastic voices that all rookies learn to fear: "Are you trying to flirt with me or do you think you're a bloomin' angel?
Now half our boys were rookies who'd never smelt a fight; The yappin' Cheyenne war-whoop just turned 'em blue with fright.
Pretty soon two or three other rookies come in; and, being ladies, of course we didn't dare to speak to each other at first.
Well, as I was saying, we rookies was told to report at three o'clock for a private drill, all of our very own.
When I went around to the Horse Guards next morning, two hundred others, newrookies like myself, were waiting.
I found therookies at Dover a jolly, companionable lot, and I never found the routine irksome.
The Men that fought at Minden' A Song of Instruction The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time-- So was them that fought at Waterloo!
I've known Briggs ever since we was rookies together, and he's a cruel man, and has caused the death of several rookies by his murderin' ways.
Out in the lake was a bobbing buoy with a bulls-eye target upon it, and a group of khaki-clad rookies were pelting this with rifle shot.
No more can you turn those rookies into soldiers by raging at them every time you speak.
As the men fell in in double rank there were a few cases of confusion, for some of the men were rookies who had joined only recently.
The list was headed with the simple dedication in the full, round hand which Burke recognized as that of Captain Sawyer: "To the Prince of all the Rookies and his Princess, from his brother cops.
Some of the rookies look pretty good to me, and if the old-timers fall down we may be able to fill their places all right.
O'Reilly hit the bottle after six years up the pole, He blew himself at Casey's place and then went in the hole, He drank with all the rookies and saved his face as well.
The quartermaster was standing in the doorway, eyeing the group of rookies sternly.
Will you rookies shut up and let the rest of us go to sleep, or must we come down there and thump you?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rookies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
