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Example sentences for "young officer"

  • At the third stroke several drops of blood appeared; at the fourth the blood spurted out; at the fifth some drops spattered the young officer's face; he drew back, and wiped them away with his handkerchief.

  • Becker replied that it was a young officer belonging to the regiment which had first entered Pozzo.

  • I cannot spare my young officer, even to go and see his mother, much as I should like to say `Yes.

  • Now you're a young officer, you're harder still.

  • That you have disgraced yourself for ever as a young officer?

  • I see you have some soldier friends at the front," said Mr. Rowland, pointing to a photograph on the mantel of a young officer in Highland dress.

  • Come on, Coleman, be a sport," shouted a young officer, the audience joining once more in encouraging cheers.

  • I failed not to perceive at times that I was getting into rather a dangerous scrape for a younger son and a young officer, who had yet to work his own way in the world.

  • These were indeed tempting offers to a young officer, devotedly attached to his profession; but they had no influence over a man bred in the "Sam Hood School.

  • He whispered a Friend the other Day, so as to be overheard by a young Officer, who gave Symptoms of Cocking upon the Company, That Gentleman has very much of the Air of a General Officer.

  • In charge of these was a young officer, who was well known to Harry during the time of Mahdoo Rao.

  • A young officer of the Horse Guards, Kutuzov's orderly, pleased at the importance of the mission entrusted to him, went to Ermolov's quarters.

  • A little behind, on a poor, small, lean Kirghiz mount with an enormous tail and mane and a bleeding mouth, rode a young officer in a blue French overcoat.

  • A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.

  • But what struck my young officer as very singular was the deportment of the male passengers.

  • Here I met a young officer, who was also on his way to rejoin the same division, and, as it proved after a little conversation, the same regiment.

  • We had one doctor on board, and a young officer of the Company's service, in charge of the Company's troops.

  • Many a young officer called to the carpet for some trivial business has managed to square himself with his commander just by looking straight and talking straight in the few moments that decided his future.

  • It is not so much that a young officer needs to have book instruction about the detail of these things.

  • However, a young officer of my acquaintance came after me and said they were Italians, and being curious to see them I retracted my steps.

  • We went to the inn, where I knew you had ordered dinner; but the inn-keeper knew nothing except that he was expecting the prince and a young officer to dine with you.

  • Come, come, my worthy lieutenant, these same excellent scruples of yours savor far more of the scholar at the rigid old Polytechnique than the young officer of hussars.

  • A sentence in one of young Robespierre's letters shows that he never felt completely sure about the young officer.

  • Makes me feel like being on board a man-o'-war again, all the more so for having a young officer at my elber.

  • That burning sensation was the result of a hint from his conscience that such conduct was not creditable to a young officer in the Royal Navy.

  • If you go, Mr Burnett here will want to be with you, and I know how particular he is as a young officer not to be seen having anything to do with our filibustering, as he calls it.

  • It was very heavy, but Fitz felt that it must be done, though it was not proper work for a young officer in Her Majesty's Navy.

  • The coachman and footman and a young officer, a sort of deputy-governor, all assisted in this work.

  • At table I sit between a young officer in uniform and the English lady who is leaving to-morrow and to whose privileges and responsibilities I am to succeed.

  • It is a position requiring much tact on both sides, but who expects tact from a young officer?

  • A young officer of a lancer regiment lay on the bed wrapped in his cloak.

  • I assure you that many a young officer carries 'The Catechism of a Free Man' and 'A Scheme of Constitutional Monarchy' about with him in his coat-pocket.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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