On this enormous canvas may be seen correct likenesses of all the principal generals, colonels, captains, majors, first and second lieutenants, sergeant-majors, sergeants, corporals and high privates who were engaged in that battle; and by the consummate skill of the artist, each one of them, to the great gratification of himself and his family, is placed prominently in the foreground.

The Colonel, somewhat bent with years, sits up and swells his chest; "A charming girl" a sergeant cries, and tries to look his best; Each soldier, if a comrade laughs, a rival seems to fear; The chief of a battalion looks, and makes his charger rear.

Steinbeck hears sergeant tell of a cottage that wasn't there.

The first sergeant commands: REPORT.

He, however, assumed authority over her, and therefore when "Major-general-field-sergeant-commander-Billy-goat's -legs" asked for the little shepherdess to be his wife, he nodded his head to show that he consented.

When approached by the captain the first sergeant executes INSPECTION SABER.

Doesn't it seem sinful waste for all that good money to be lying out there?" Out of the tail of his eye Riley saw the sergeant halt and stiffen into an attitude of listening.

In business life, the man with the sergeant instincts is even more valuable than in the army.

But a great system of laboratories and experimental stations, a systematic, industrious increase of men of the officer-aviator type, of the research student type, of the engineer type, of the naval-officer type, of the skilled sergeant-instructor type, a methodical development of a common sentiment and a common zeal among such a body of men, is an added strength that grows greater from the moment you call it into being.

"There is more in this than an ordinary assault," I heard the sergeant mutter, as he looked to the priming of his musket.

(Sergeant obeys.)

The first rapids were at Navaite in 11 degrees 44 minutes and after that they were continuous and very difficult and dangerous until the rapids named after the murdered sergeant Paishon in 11 degrees 12 minutes.

There's Mackray, Sergeant-pensioner at Segowlimany's the good dinner he's given me, and his wife a pair of trousers.

The officers fallout; the first sergeant places himself faced to the front, 3 paces to the front and 2 paces from the nearest flank of the company, salutes, faces toward opposite flank of the company, and commands:

[The sergeant recovers and the case proceeds.

So quietly were officials submitted to that sometimes, when a police-magistrate failed to appear in a goldfields' court through some accident of road or river, his clerk would calmly hear cases and impose fines, or a police-sergeant remand the accused without authority and without resistance.

It gave me great joy to hear through the floor the voice of the sergeant remarking, with much emphasis of the sort best represented in print by dashes, that if he had known the sort of a trip he was starting on he would have been on sick report the morning of his departure.

The sergeant reports as follows: "Sir, all present or accounted for," or "Sir, (so-and-so) is absent"; or if the roll call has been omitted, "Sir, the guard is formed."

Well, there was a lot of doughboys hangin' around there wastin' time, and I see one on a motor-cycle with a sergeant sittin' in the side-car.

He is as rare as birds' teeth, and every officer anxiously scans his recruits in search of good sergeant timber.

A quarter of an hour later a carriage was at the door, a portmanteau well filled with clothes placed behind, and with the sergeant trotting alongside, the boys left the chateau where they bad been so hospitably entertained, promising to come over without fail the next morning.

The lieutenants and first sergeant assist in fire control; the other sergeants place themselves in the filing line as skirmishers.

The first sergeant verifies the detail, inspects their dress and general appearance, and replaces any man unfit to march on guard.

HOCHE, LA, French general, born near Versailles; rose from the ranks to the command of the army of the Moselle; drove the Austrians out of Alsace, and suppressed the rising in and pacified La Vendée; while yet a sergeant bore a hand conspicuously at the overturn of the Bastille (17681797).

There is no water in the court, and the clerk gets the kind of inspiration that the sergeant desires and fetches the poteen.