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Example sentences for "sergent"

Lexicographically close words:
serfs; serge; sergeant; sergeants; sergens; sergents; serges; sergint; seria; serial
  1. Le Sergent Mathieu was then being played at the Vaudeville theatre, and, consequently, there were about a score or so of rifles, swords and powder-wallets lying among the property stores.

  2. Sergent admits, except as to one of the watches, that he intended to pay for the said object the price they would have brought.

  3. The interference of Sergent and Boucher-Réne is contested, but Raederer thinks it very probable.

  4. Sergent and others told me that I was acting imprudently; that the prisons were not safe.

  5. On the 27th of August, after the funeral procession gotten up by Sergent expressly to excite popular resentment, their suspicions, at once specific and guided, begin to take the form of certainty.

  6. Sergent and Boucher-René, "nobody has a right to shut it.

  7. I myself--I, whom policemen yesterday pursued through the kitchen and offices to the back door, was at the time of the siege of Paris in love with the daughter of a sergent de ville.

  8. It was such a chance as does not often come the way of the daughter of a sergent de ville.

  9. Besides, there was a sergent de ville who followed and watched me.

  10. How can you remember Jena in a tunic made for a sergent de ville?

  11. A sergent de ville, hearing her voice, began to answer her brusquely; but when he saw her face he stretched out his hand to her, and thrust the people back.

  12. According to Edmund and Etienne Sergent (1907), myasis caused by the larvae of Oestris ovis is very common among the shepherds in Algeria.

  13. Do not answer," said the sergent de ville to the soldiers.

  14. A sergent de ville who was standing by the door of the cell hesitated for some time, but however ended by saying to the general, "Throw away your cigar.

  15. General," said a sergent de ville, "we are forbidden to do so.

  16. A sergent de ville says to him, "If we find a cartridge upon you, we shall shoot you.

  17. Had a sergent de ville been there, Préveraud would have been captured.

  18. A sergent de ville and a police agent in plain clothes barred his passage.

  19. He himself opened his pocket-book; the police agents turned out the pockets of his waistcoat and unbuttoned his shirt over his breast; finally the sergent de ville said gruffly, "Yet I seem to have seen you here before this morning.

  20. Sergent Cada Sergent Armsba and Ensign Robbins & at Sondown the French come out again 5 thousand strong and our men came back again to the Landing place & Lodged their.

  21. The Thompson men that came up to see us sot out for newingland and sergent Cromba had a pass to Albany & went down along.

  22. This day I went home upon furlow,[178] yesterday Sergent Yett went home.

  23. I was warned a quarter guard and I changed with Moses Peak and went upon the Escort & got in by 12 a clock I was warned out to work but did not do much sergent Erls com in with his Con-nu--and the Jineral was much pleased with it.

  24. But he didn't dare: close at hand stood a sergent de ville, inquisitive eyes bright beneath the dripping visor of his kepi, keenly welcoming this diversion of a cheerless hour.

  25. Pausing, the older sergent explained in a tone of surprise: "But his accomplice, naturally!

  26. Then the pain-maddened sergent crawled to his knees, lunged blindly forward, knocked the adventurer back in the act of rising, and fell on top of him.

  27. Involuntarily Lanyard stopped his car; and one immediately to the rear, swerving out to escape collision, shot past, its driver cursing him freely; while a sergent de ville scowled darkly and uttered an imperative word.

  28. And here, a dozen feet away, a perfectly able-bodied sergent de ville?

  29. At the junction with the boulevard Haussmann a second sergent de ville roused him with a warning about careless driving.

  30. Something of the same kind is seen in Paris; for it is said that it takes two or three years to turn the well-disciplined old soldier into the courteous and considerate sergent de ville.

  31. The boat broke down, a sergent de ville came on board and ordered everybody off except the captain and his family, who happened to be with him.

  32. You see,' said the sergent de ville, 'the captain does not know you, he says you are not of the family.

  33. At the doors a sergent de ville stood good-humouredly and nodded to the ladies and gentlemen with whom he had a professional acquaintance.

  34. As they passed the sergent de ville they all cocked themselves up with an air of braggadocio.

  35. No, the sergent de ville had seen no one: he had only just come up the road: the officer whom he had relieved had reported no disturbance.

  36. However, when no body of any murdered person was to be found, no traces of a sanguinary struggle to be seen, and everything looked as usual about the place, the sergent de ville returned to his original opinion.

  37. The sergent de ville placed her arm firmly within his own.

  38. Some allowance must be made, however, for the sergent de ville.

  39. As she projected round an abrupt turn of the road she jostled against a sergent de ville--mutual astonishment-- explanations.


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