Much moved, the veteran seized the boy in his arms and kissed him.
The royal fleet was burned, and even many of the veteran Birchlegs had deserted.
The veteran regiments of the English army which were now sent across the Atlantic would have scorned to fight under the orders of an old American merchant.
Such was the army with which Washington had to contend against more than twenty veteran British regiments.
Not only veteran soldiers and raw recruits and nurses, but charming women of leisure who contemplate migrating with their retinue somewhere abroad and earning fame "at a canteen or anything that is wanted--just behind the lines!
Everything to her was new, for she had never been out of England before, and to a veteran traveller her joy at the ways of this new country was extraordinarily interesting.
Two other workers have arrived from England; neither of them having done hard manual labour before, they are apt to find this somewhat strenuous, though to our more veteran hands it is child's play.
The pianist is a bearded veteran whose six sons are fighting.
Army veteran to-day at lunch, whose views were interesting.
Water, especially boiling water, is at a premium, as it all has to be fetched from outside where the veteran cook stokes hard all day in the driving rain, ladling us out a modicum into each bowl from his cauldrons.
I won't ever turn up my nose at a dogbiscuit after this, sir," said one old veteran of seventy-two.
As yet he was merely a tyro, gaining practical experience under a veteran Zeppelin commander.
In this host was a veteran regiment that had come East to serve under Grant as it had served under him so valiantly in the West.
But the veteran was upborne by the success of the day and his belief in ultimate victory.
It shone like a red dome, but Harry knew that there was no better man in such a crisis than this veteran lieutenant of Stonewall Jackson.
He had his course fixed very clearly, and a veterannow in experience, he could guide himself easily by the moon and stars.
Pshaw, Leonidas, you can't frighten a veteran like me.
Directly before it was the camp of the Austrians, containing a veteran force of twenty-two thousand men, commanded by General Clarfait.
St. Cloud with his family and with some of the most devoted of his followers, while these scenes were transpiring, was still in France, at but a few leagues from Paris, at the head of twelve thousand veteran troops.
Sire," said this veteran of a hundred battles, with moistened eyes and trembling lips, "it is my painful duty to announce to your majesty that I have not been able to maintain your authority in Paris.
There was a very energeticveteran general in Paris, Marshal Bugeaud, who had acquired renown in the war in Algeria.
Not a few of these were veteran soldiers, who had served their term in the army, and there were military men of distinction to lead them.
When I expressed surprise that men were willing to hazard their lives on these cockle-shells, a veteran sea-dog glanced at the scanty sail his vessel carried as he replied, "We can get somewhere.
When he rose in the Senate or in the committee room, he was heard with the profoundest attention; and again and again was he greeted by these veteran Democrats as one of our ablest champions.
Never before nor since has the Senate been more venerable for the array of veteran and celebrated statesmen than at that time.
But up the long slope, never flinching, never swerving, one man stepping where another fell, the veteran regiments marched, with their gallant chief at their head.
A year ago the veteranchef of a celebrated Parisian restaurant resigned his position.
But I must not forget the veteran of them all, the bard of bards, Marcel Legay.
This veteran chansonnier has composed volumes of exquisite ballads, parodies and satires.
We may repeat that we have rarely met with a book by a veteran writer so full of freshness and unflagging animation.
The veteran came in with a grave and troubled countenance.
At that time, its commandant was a veteran of Waterloo, a peppery old chap who had left one of his legs on the soil of France, as a souvenir.
The famous veteran was then sixty-eight and for several years had been living in retirement.
In place of the young lieutenant not yet out of his 'teens, they found a grizzled veteran who matched them with methods as thorough-going as their own, but who preferred to control his men by love rather than fear.
That it did not do so, was due in no small measure to the grim veteran who was now Secretary of War, and to his wonderful army of volunteers, dubbed "Kitchener's Mob.
Colonies, composed for the most part of veteran soldiers, were settled throughout the empire.
Passing from this very human and sympathetic view of the profoundest use of poetry, note how the veteran Bryant confirms it.
Thanks to this fertile apprenticeship, beginning with the Consulate, he shows officials and veteran ministers who send in their reports to him what to do.
Your veteran of three-score will step softly and dry-shod around the quagmire in which your hair-brained youth of sixteen plunges head and ears.
Neal Bailey, a veteran of many local butcherings, described them in this particularly detailed manner: Two to three meat hogs per year were raised and slaughtered, all about Thanksgiving.
The degree of utilization of our hospitals has increased through making facilities available to the incapacitated veteran regardless of service origin of the disability.
Various veteran bodies will present to you recommendations which should have your careful consideration.
They are darker hued than their veteran comrades; but they can cheer as lustily, "Hurrah!
The quarters of the veteran general commanding the right grand division are in a spacious mansion, newly constructed, the property of a wealthy planter, whose estate is somewhat shorn of its beauty by the ravages of war.
Away my veteran doubles, and soon returns at a funeral pace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veteran" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
