31 Metaphors for regiment

I heard a big boy say, "Yes, your Uncle Pierce is all right, and his regiment is the best in the army."

As the regiment would be presumably some time on the ground, the canvas tents rested on the top of a palisade of logs cut in the neighboring woods.

In such sorrows as these a soldier learns how his regiment is his real home, how his comrades are the staunchest, the least obtrusive, and the sincerest of friends.

It will be one of the advantages of defeat to have made it evident that a regiment of bullies and prize-fighters is not the best stuff to compose an army.

The regiment was the object of universal interest in the town.

His regiment was the pride of the army, and that it would be ordered to join the duke he did not entertain a doubt.

The regiment to which our friend had been appointed was the 71st Highland Light Infantry, which wore the red coat and the trews, and had its depot in Glasgow town.

The lone regiment is the Second Prussian regiment of the guard, the emperor's own, the elite of the Kaiser's army, 2,500 of the brawniest, most disciplined men in the world.

"That Cockney regiment which lay beside us at Albert last summer was a pretty priceless lot.

the Seventh Regiment at Annapolis was the Right Man in the Right Place!

Each regiment is a team composed of three playerseach a battalion.

The above regiments were the only colored troops that were engaged in active service in Cuba.

Hawkins' regiment, the 9th, is less conspicuous, wearing only the red headgear and facings, but Duryea's regiment is a sight!

The regiment most affected was the voltigeros (formerly Numancia), which had marched by land from Caracas, a distance of upwards of two thousand leagues.

But, then, you know, a regiment is never quite ... a prude!

The regiment is assez bien composé.

I fancy, in the battle that is to come, there will be no question of who shall fire first, and a regiment which keeps its formation will be a fair mark for the enemy.

He had now an army modelled after the European fashion, according to the suggestions of Lefort, whose regiment became the model of other regiments.

It was difficult to make them understand that our regiment was only a cog in the huge wheel of the Austrian fighting machine and that, with a battle line extending over many miles, it was quite natural that partial successes could take place and yet the consideration of general strategy necessitate a retreat.

The 25th Battalion Middlesex Regiment was the only British unit in the country; it had spread itself out in a remarkable manner, and shown the flag on a front of 5,000 miles.

The whole regiment, drawn from the whole County of Barnstable, mustered but 149 men, nearly one-fifth of whom were volunteers from the little Indian Plantation of Marshpee, which then did not contain over one hundred male heads of families!

I was not a chief of brigade yet, you understand, although I already carried myself like one, but I was the youngest colonel in the whole service, and my regiment was wife and children to me.

The Highland regiments are however the favourites of the Bruxellois, and the inhabitants give them the preference as lodgers.

"] [Footnote 12: The Regiment of Helthe, by Thomas Paynell, is another volume of the same description, and was printed by Thomas Berthelette, in 1541.

Cholera all this time raged in the force, and carried off its victims daily, my own regiment and the 8th being the principal sufferers.

31 Metaphors for  regiment