One of the other battery subalternsfound a deserted carpenter’s shop and he let his men loose to dismantle it.
Did they esteem it better to feign ignorance, or was it in reality the act ofsubalterns working unknown to their chiefs?
Réal and these two subalterns were the principal actors in the drama that we are about to relate.
Here Brayton nudged Winn approvingly, but the subalterns maintained a decorous silence.
The three subalterns in A Company took turns at duty in the trenches, four hours on and eight hours off, night and day.
Gregson and myself being the subalterns there in charge.
Lance Desmond had achieved fame among the subalternsby christening her the Banter-Wrangle; but he liked her well enough, on the whole, to hope she would never find him out.
I was invited to dinner there one night, and sat between two young cavalry officers on long benches crowded with subalterns of many regiments.
They felt their way along until the two subalterns who were leading came to the gap which had been reported by the first explorer.
His strict discipline and his terrific ideas of what training meant, may have struck some of his young subalterns as scarcely yielding them the ideal existence of the beau sabreur.
And with a mocking laugh, James heard Mrs. Wallace's words: "Subalterns always get engaged to the same type of girl.
It's extraordinary that subalternsshould always get engaged to the same sort of girl.
They can talk to the subalterns though, and the subalterns can talk to them.
Reluctant subaltern, pink all over like a newly-powdered baby, they really ought to tan subalterns before they are exported, Polly, sent back by the hostess to do his duty.
Bobby did not kneel and worship them, because British subalterns are not constructed in that manner.
Gertie shivered, and one of the subalterns gulped down his port.
There was no pomp and circumstance about him, yet in the whole of the Indian Empire there was not an officer more highly honoured and few who possessed such wide influence as "old Sir Reggie," as irreverent subalterns fondly called him.
She met him constantly at the Club, and he never failed to come to her side there and by some means known only to himself to banish the crowd of subalternswho were wont to gather round her.
Those who do not know French are learning it, and I remember a picturesque sight, that of a very elderly, prim French governess in black, teaching French to American subalterns in a Y.
Some towns where subalterns discovered the wine of the country have instantly been put "out of bounds.
Given, however, the appearance of two or three lively subalterns on the scene, and he thought he knew how the land would lie.
A row of subalternswere roosting on the railing in front of the exclusively male department of the club, while their dogs fought and frisked, and snarled and panted, on the sward underneath.
There were many sunshades and up-to-date hats and costumes scattered about the lawn, yet upwards of forty British subalterns roosted upon the railing.
At any rate, it was an abode to be avoided on all possible occasions, and thesubalterns were quite convinced it was the registering place of all the hostile batteries within range and vision.
About this time a most amusing episode was witnessed by one of our Subalterns who was doing a liaison with the infantry at a battalion headquarters.
It was from this delightful spot that one of the subalterns arrived at the Battery one evening with his head swathed in bandages like a Sultan's turban.
Of the other three subalterns perhaps the most interesting was Hewett.
High officers in shirt sleeves and red hats looked long and wisely at it through periscopes; colonels and adjutants and subalterns and sergeants stood silent and respectful while the great men pondered.
Those to whom I principally allude were the subalterns of the regiment, most of whom were nearly of our own age.
He repelled the zealous subalterns who came for orders.
Sicinnus had come down the ladder, smiling, jesting, a dozen subalterns salaaming as he went, and offering all manner of service, for had he not been a bearer of great good tidings to the king?
Where's the good of us trying so hard to live on our pay, if it's only to be flung about to help subalterns who don't try at all?
The officers, the Company Commander and three subalterns have a room in the house, with big windows opening out into the yard of the big farm.
It is an old barn, and we all sit on the floor--Colonels, Majors, Subalterns and privates.
And yet there came a day when men who had openly fawned on him left the room when he came in, when whispers of an unsuspected yellow streak in him began to circulate, when senior subalterns no longer held him up as a model.
That wild enthusiasm which he had shared with other subalterns in his battalion before they had been over the first time was lacking now; he was calmer--more evenly balanced.
Senior subalterns guiding the erring feet of the young and frivolous from the tempting paths of night clubs and fair ladies, to the infinitely better ones of hunting and sport, were apt to quote him.
About three in the morning, one of Davoust's subalterns ventured to the foot of the wall, which he scaled without noise.
The knowledge of such a disposition induced some subalterns to make false reports to him.
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