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Example sentences for "young lieutenant"

  • I knew," spoke up a young lieutenant, "that those miserable Eastern Yankees would not stand up before the Southern soldiers.

  • He now noticed for the first time a young lieutenant, his neat uniform soiled and torn, and his eyes red with watching.

  • Fred dismounted and bent over the young lieutenant, and then started back uttering an exclamation of surprise and grief.

  • The stories were the same; the leader of the Confederates was a young lieutenant, who showed the utmost bravery and handled his men with consummate skill.

  • Denny, a young Lieutenant, carried word of the defeat by horse to Philadelphia, where was then the seat of Federal Government.

  • In the Royal Naval Air Service there is a young lieutenant, Murray Galbraith by name, with whom I once trained at the school at Dayton, Ohio.

  • Grahame Richards This extraordinary narrative by a young Lieutenant in the French Army gives the most vivid impression that has been recorded of the Great War.

  • Commanding a fraction of the latter regiment was a young lieutenant, whose greatest chum happened to be directing the fire of our batteries.

  • It was in a Flemish cottage, where a young lieutenant, a little drunk, sang a love-song among his comrades, while a little way off men were being maimed and killed by bursting shells.

  • I remember a young lieutenant of Dragoons who told me of the terror which took possession of him when the enemy's shrapnel first burst above his head.

  • The character of a young lieutenant of artillery, who came to fill the place of a poor fellow killed at the side of his caisson, is typical of innumerable soldiers of France.

  • You're not a tradesman but a young lieutenant.

  • A young lieutenant, who has nothing in the world to call his own but an allowance of a few pounds, sits down with the greatest confidence at the card-table and gambles away a L50 bank-note, one after the other.

  • Arriving at the battery, which was manned by twenty French soldiers under a young lieutenant, Nat and the doctor mounted the parapet.

  • I never knew a midshipman or a young lieutenant, Mr. Glover, who did not find the circumstances peculiar when he wanted to disobey orders.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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