No one except sergeants is entitled to receive the money.
Other sergeants came in, and the gold began to fall in showers upon the straw, among the dying men.
The understanding was that the sergeants were subsequently to divide what they received with the surviving men of their half-sections.
Sergeants Jackson and Romani had now finished reloading.
Everyone began ribbing Soapy and Fred, until the two sergeants were forced to join in the laughter at their expense.
Reassured that neither of his two sergeants was seriously hurt, Barry cut straight across the Hitu Peninsula, dodging between the hills.
If not—well, here are Sergeants Cracker Jackson and Soapy Babbitt to help me out.
And it was a place for military executions, and the shooting of two sergeants for desertion, etc.
They haue also in their company certaine Sergeants with their maces either siluered or altogether siluer, some two, some foure, other sixe, other eight, conueniently for ech one his degree.
Old sergeants give the tone to younger soldiers in all the customs of the service.
Sergeants Burroughs and Wing, Corporal Foot and Troopers Denny, Flood, Kerrigan and Preusser killed.
It was 8:30 when Blake retook the trail, with Sergeants Schreiber and Winsor, the latter borrowed from Ray, far in the van.
The file-closers are usually second-class sergeantsand third-class corporals.
It has been customary to appoint the officers, captains, and lieutenants from the first class, the sergeants from the second, and the corporals from the third.
Many young sergeants not only gained the Victoria Cross, but had their commissions given them, and are now captains and adjutants of their respective regiments.
It is through the sergeants that the discipline of a regiment is maintained, and they must possess the education I have spoken of, and be intelligent, steady, honest men, or things will go badly in that regiment.
In the meantime the orderly-sergeants called the rolls of the respective rooms, noted all the men absent, and gave lists of them to the regimental orderly-sergeant.
Then with a glance at the ladies he told one of the sergeantsnot to allow any one else to pass the gate.
That makes twosergeants and an acting sergeant," said Jimmy O'Loughlin.
In language which hardly varied and with a strict attention to the number of words which can be sent for sixpence, the sergeants of all the police barracks within a wide circle disclaimed any knowledge of the missing gentlemen.
He was a kindly man, as most police sergeants are, and it grieved him to think that the young lady who had established herself in his barrack was spending a whole day with nothing to eat except dry biscuits.
He then wrote out a series of messages to the police sergeants of these places, directing them to make inquiries at the railway stations about all strangers who had left by train that day.
Officers of the First Class and cadet staff and first sergeants of the Second Class were the exceptions.
It rarely happens that the first captain is selected from outside the first sergeants of the previous year, and in four cases out of five the office goes to the first sergeant of Company A.
I have bet Lane you will be one of the four first sergeantsin June and up among the twenties in class rank.
The two fast friends had been designated as acting first and third sergeants respectively.
Ordway, Pryor, Gass--each of the three sergeants slept by his own mess fire, his squad around him.
Lewis called in the sergeants in charge of the three messes.
I was told by one of the sergeants in our front line that we were in need of fresh ammunition, and he asked me if I would let the Colonel know.
The Sunday before I left I had service for them and a celebration of the Holy Communion, after which one of the sergeants came and was baptized.
One of the sergeants had cleaned up the place and a shelf on the wall illuminated by candles was converted into an altar, and the dear old flag, the symbol of liberty, equality and fraternity, was once again my altar cloth.
Much amused by the tenacity with which one of the sergeants clung to a jar of rum which he had rescued from the position.
The men sleep in a roomy barn with plenty of straw to keep them warm, the sergeants have a loft of their own.
The sergeants mastered the particular system of angles, "registrations," etc.
He made the lives of various sergeants and junior N.
Sergeants shouting and corporals cursing; transport-officers giving directions; a party of New Zealand sharp-shooters in scout hats and leggings laughing and yarning; a patrol of the R.
They worked under the direction of English sergeants and officers, loading and unloading.
He was favored by the sergeants and helped in every way by the men, and so continued to stay with the company at that wet season when drill and parades were impracticable.
In a few words, Lecoq explained the situation, and it was decided that one of the sergeants should take the accomplice to the station-house, while the other remained with Father Absinthe to cut off May's retreat.
At the same moment, two sergeants de ville, whose attention had been attracted by this group at the street corner, hastened toward them.
The police-sergeants hurried up with the re-enforcement of two porters to recover their man.
In one moment the police-sergeants had laid hands upon him.
If sergeants still remain, they are assigned to platoons as additional guides.
All company officers and sergeants should be proficient in using it.
Mr. Pakington proposed that a chief constable and twelve sergeants should be the only appointments under the act at present, because it would be desirable to bring it into operation by degrees.
It was determined that the pay of the sergeants should be £80 a year.
The Highlanders lost Ensign Grant, and eleven soldiers killed, and four sergeants and forty-six soldiers wounded.
The sergeants wore silver lace on their coats, and carried the Lochaber axe, the head of which was fitted for hewing, hooking or spearing an enemy, or such other work as might be found before the ramparts of Ticonderoga.
The loss sustained by the 42nd was as follows: eight officers, ninesergeants and two hundred and ninety-seven men killed; and seventeen officers, ten sergeants and three hundred and six soldiers wounded.
The death of Major Menzies was an irreparable loss to the corps, for he was a man of judgment and experience, and many of the officers and all the sergeants and soldiers totally inexperienced.
On this occasion the Royal Highlanders had three sergeants and nine privates killed; and Captain Duncan Macpherson, Lieutenant William Stewart, three sergeants, and thirty-five privates wounded.
The loss of the Highlanders was, Lieutenant Crammond and nine rank and file wounded, of the 42d; and three rank and filed killed, and two sergeants and nine rank and file wounded, of the 71st regiment.
The loss sustained by this regiment, in the engagement was three rank and file killed, and two sergeants and nine rank and file wounded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sergeants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
