27 Metaphors for major

The major is, nevertheless, anxious to see the country for himself, and although it is not yet six o'clock in the morning, we are both out on the gangway, glasses in hand, maps under our eyes.

The Major was a prime favorite with all the party and his coming infused new life into the household.

The sergeant-major was an old regular, the knowing back-bone of the battalion, who had taken the men of clay and taught them their letters and then how to spell and to add and subtract and divide.

Forgotten the honors and degrees; the majors were mere minor affairs; and there remained only the things which were from the beginning.

It was a little after eleven, while the chef-major was upstairs writing, that his orderly came with a paper and carried it up to him.

Les majors ne me le cachent meme pas.

"Ready and waiting, Major," was the bland reply.

Trains had been running between Paris and Meaux for ten days, and will soon go as far as Chalons, where the Etat-Major was the last time we heard of it.

And so with a nod he left us, and we began to understand that a Major who is your officer is a very different person from a Major who happens to be your neighbour in the country.

The Major and Pauline were man and wife.

Then away they started, and, although Dan obeyed Hucks more willingly than any other driver, the Major and Uncle John walked 'cross-lots and reached the hotel a good fifteen minutes in advance of the equipage.

He made him a major; in 1849 this major became lieutenant-colonel, and commanded a storming column at the siege of Rome; he then came back to Africa, where Fleury bought him over at the same time as Saint-Arnaud.

The major is scarcely a bird of which you can make a pet in your mind, as you may of the chickadee, for instance, or the bluebird, or the hermit thrush.

"I'll have you to know, sir, that this major is mamma's, and no one else can have, hold, or make eyes at him.

And the Subedar-Major was John Robin Ross-Ellison's brother!

The Italian Major commanding this Group was a Mantuan and he

He arrived just as the great bell was clanging to summon the family to the mid-day meal, since he had reckoned on the Squire being more amenable as a 'full man,' especially towards a guest, and he was well aware that the Major was thoroughly a gentleman in behaviour even to those with whom he differed in politics and religion.

The major was a first-rate shot, a bold, fearless man, and an enthusiastic naturalist.

" "But the Major was a very hostile major when I saw him last.

The Major was fearful Wampus might run them into the canyon, but the machine's powerful searchlights showed the way clearly and by sticking to the road they finally drew up before an imposing hotel such as you might wonder to find in so remote a spot.

Theodore was a family name, and had been borne by the eldest son for several generations, the major himself being a second son.

They told me Manzoni was well on ahead with the other two guns and I told them that the Major and the bulk of the dismounted party must also be a good distance ahead, as stragglers from this party had appeared here many hours before.

Amelia Osborne had decided to accept the Major's protection for life, to the never-ending satisfaction of George, to whom the Major had always been comrade and father.

"Major, isn't there a chance that Brother Brigham didn't order this?" "Brother Rae, no one has said he didit wouldn't be just wise.

The Major was the presiding genius of the festivities; and while the affair was in a way informal, and an assemblage of friends and neighbors of the owner, still he had made a judicious use of his authority, and had invited a good many rather prominent people from a distance.

27 Metaphors for  major